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Strohhut Junge
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Templatespace is a web service which provides you with the opportunity to publish your GuildWars skill or equipement arrangements and spread them in your guild or just give them to your friends. This smart tool can be used from anywhere and also without having internet only GuildWars has to be installed. The advantage of Templatespace is that it's free and that your builds are not useable without having the right link! Just download, choose if you want to publish a skill arrangement or an equipement arrangement and click on the generate button. The just generated link can be send to clipboard and is then avaiable for pasting into any application or online forum. © by templatespace
Links removed by Tribina till further explanation =)
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| 12/27/06 09:21 |
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Kanna
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Please explain more about this software? From what you said, it looks like a 3rd part software that has to run with Guild Wars, which would then bee against the EULA. Please do inlighten us as to how this is used exactly. In great detail please. :)
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| 12/27/06 11:15 |
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Tribina
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| QUOTE | | Please explain more about this software? From what you said, it looks like a 3rd part software that has to run with Guild Wars, which would then bee against the EULA. Please do inlighten us as to how this is used exactly. In great detail please. :) |
Indeed I would like some more explanation as well =)
Until then, I removed the links from your post ;-)
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| 12/27/06 11:43 |
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E T E R N A L
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Indeed. Sounds handy in a way but...you can already share templates. Well if im way way off base just tell me.
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| 12/27/06 12:54 |
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Mordakaida
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What I would like to see is a way in the template thing is called send. You can send your template straight to a friends template folder. "gw checks to make sure it is correct build and no added code"
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| 12/27/06 13:00 |
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Julia Heartilly
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I'm sure there are some people out there that caught the link before it was removed and downloaded this program to check it out.
For those I'd advice strongly against using this for the moment being.
I'm still looking into what exactly it's doing besides what it says it's doing, if anything, but my findings so far are making me doubt it's good intentions seriously... very seriously.
When I know something concrete I'll post it - if the topic isn't locked yet for any reason.
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| 12/27/06 13:20 |
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Julia Heartilly
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I can't stop being suspecious about this thing.
If not for the reason that it tried to load an additional 33 DLLs using DelayLoad on the first run which it didn't appear to need in subsequent runs, then because it seems to load more functions then it needs dynamically - although I may be wrong in the latter.
Also I don't like the fact it was written in Delphi, but I guess that's just because I don't like Delphi.
Why it has all it's sections merged (in a surprisingly inefficient way) nesting conventional sections in unconventional ones, I do not know.
Neither do I know why it's entry point procedure is almost at the end of the code section, rather than the start of it, even though the sixth instruction makes it jump right back to somewhere more in the starting range; why it loads more functions than it seems to need; why it links dynamically to everything; why it loads some functions twice or as high as up to four times in a row or why it attempt to query a registry entry called "LameButtonText".
This is but a selection of some of the many oddities I've noticed.
I do not know, as I said, what use they have, or rather; I don't think they have any use.
The merging of some sections in the executable might be an attempt at code optimization, something which had most definitely better been done in the code itself which appears rather sloppy at the least.
All in all, some things keep raising question marks for me.
Enough about the findings however, of much more interest is the conclusion.
Conclusion:
I can only think of one logical explanation for most the above which would mean all this doesn't point at anything malicious.
Judging by the code signature it appears that the executable was compiled by a compiler that is part of the Lazarus Project or some spinoff of it.
This is a multi-platform development solution, I'm guessing that the programmer developed this under Linux, if he did under Windows he could've used something better.
Anyway, the use of that compiler is most likely the cause of many of the errr... "interesting approaches".
This thought is strengthened by the fact that part of the compiler name can be found back in the names of the errr... somewhat "refreshing" sections in the executable.
Facts:
The program does work... to a limited extend.
It hasn't made any attempts to log anything, nor to hijack any application and most importantly, it hasn't attempted to establish any network / internet connection whatsoever.
In that regard, it's clean.
Note: I did say hasn't made any attempts to do so, but I didn't say it never will. I do tend towards believing that this program is absolutely nothing malicious now, but I can't guarantee anything.
All of the program is in english except for one error message:
It displays an error "Datei nicht gefunden", even if it does find data.
The error simply seems to always display.
Also the "Test Link" button seems broken or it's effect is invisible...
What does it do anyway?
If you have any templates it will display them, you can select any template and click "Generate Link".
You will then receive a link such as "core.php?t=ZoMG1337temPLaTe" where the part preceded by the "=" is your template errr... code? (Whatever, you know what I mean.)
Note: This is ofcourse merely the last part of the link that will be generated, I left out the rest because otherwise I'd be reposting the link removed in the initial post.
Then you can spread that link to friends, guildies, etc... and if they browse to it the site will they'll see a page with a button that says: "Use right click here to save the template to your harddrive!".
This ofcourse works for any template code, since the program doesn't communicate with the website and thus the site has no knowledge of the fact you generated that link using the program.
You can click the button to download the file and the site will simply generate a .txt file with, as it's contents and filename, the template code given in the URL.
My opinion:
Rather useless.
In all honesty, how much easier does it make things?
Normally you would get the template code from your file, give it to a friend and he would create a new file and paste it in there.
Now you generate a link which contains the code you'd normally pass to your friend using this program and pass the whole link instead.
Your friends has to load that URL in his browser and click the button to save the file, which is pretty much just as much work as creating a file and pasting the code in.
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| 12/27/06 15:59 |
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gyerekember
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| QUOTE | | also without having internet only GuildWars has to be installed. |
That is something fishy for me.
If it's an addon for GW, then you need internet, since you can't run the game otherwise. If it's not, then why use a software to generate a link that you HAVE TO SEND TO A FRIEND so they can follow and get a file, instead of sending the build file itself?
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| 12/27/06 16:07 |
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Julia Heartilly
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| QUOTE | | QUOTE | | also without having internet only GuildWars has to be installed. |
That is something fishy for me.
If it's an addon for GW, then you need internet, since you can't run the game otherwise. If it's not, then why use a software to generate a link that you HAVE TO SEND TO A FRIEND so they can follow and get a file, instead of sending the build file itself? |
Technically, it's not an addon.
It works independantly of Guild Wars, all it needs to function is for you to have template files residing on your hard drive, and you don't need an internet connection in that it allows you to generate a link but it doesn't connect to the internet.
In theory, when you internet is down and a friend wants to have some build you always use if you have it in a template file, then you could generate the link using this program and dictate it through the phone.
In practice, it is ofcourse completely useless without an internet connection, but it's also nearly useless with an internet connection the way I see it - so that doesn't matter much.
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| 12/27/06 16:15 |
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So, basically, what this program does is search your hard drive for the Guild Wars/Templates/Skills folder, copies the .txt documents it finds inside, lets you choose one of the templates and generates a link that, when clicked (or typed into a browser address bar), saves a text document that contains the template code onto the users computer.
So, it's basically 2 programs...one installed on your computer, and a second installed within the website.
Just a suggestion...I'd check what is actually reported in the LINK itself.
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| 12/27/06 16:29 |
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Julia Heartilly
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| QUOTE | | So, basically, what this program does is search your hard drive for the Guild Wars/Templates/Skills folder, copies the .txt documents it finds inside, lets you choose one of the templates and generates a link that, when clicked (or typed into a browser address bar), saves a text document that contains the template code onto the users computer. |
With two minor differences.
It doesn't copy the .txt files, it just reads them and rather than searching your hard drive for the templates folder (it works both with skills and equipment) it just queries the registry entry "HKLM\ArenaNet\Guild Wars\Path".
| QUOTE | | Just a suggestion...I'd check what is actually reported in the LINK itself. |
Nothing but the template code itself.
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| 12/27/06 16:37 |
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gyerekember
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| QUOTE | | In theory, when you internet is down and a friend wants to have some build you always use if you have it in a template file, then you could generate the link using this program and dictate it through the phone. |
So... if my internet is down, and I want to send it to my friend, then instead of reading the build from the txt, like , I tell the link, which is | CODE | | http://this.is.the.link.to.teh.website/?and+here&sthecode=abcdEFGH]http://this.is.the.link.to.teh.website/?an...hecode=abcdEFGH |
note for others, the link and the code ain't real, don't try it...[/SIZE]
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| 12/27/06 17:39 |
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Julia Heartilly
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Yeah that's pretty much the idea of this program. :-)
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| 12/27/06 17:50 |
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GodMode
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wow build and equip. templates are just lines of text. copy and paste will do. you don't need 3rd party software for that. lol
and if anybody does, shame on you :P
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| 12/27/06 18:44 |
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