I am using ubot to manipulate droid apps via bluestacks. I've been stuck for over a day now trying to figure out the best way to setup a proxy, just for bluestacks. I've read about ProxyCap and Proxifier, but is there any way to do this via command line?
Thanks!
You can use a program called ProxyCap to set the proxy for bluestacks. ProxyCap 5.27 is the latest version. It works really well, with only 1 catch. It's not freeware. So there is a 31 day free trial period, until you can find something else. I'm busy searching for an alternative now too...
But for the next 31 days, you're sorted.
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I need execute simply command in cmd.exe, for example:
ls -l
I care to read the result of executing this command, but I know I didn't Process library. Could you help me?
You can use so called "brokered components" to achieve this. This worked for Windows 8.1, I'm not 100% sure but think it still works for W10.
It's a little hacky. The reason is that it requires extra steps to get along with the security restrictions in Windows and therefore you need some additional projects and stuff
Here's a link to a blogpost on this:https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/mim/2014/06/24/create-a-winrt-brokered-component-feedback-from-a-real-life-developement/ You will find more details if you search for "brokered components".
You can see it in action in a video I recorded for YouTube some month ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yiZBG6PQmY
On certain programs you can run them on a demo period for say 'ten tasks' or '5 hours' before you need to decide to purchase them to keep using them, but if you delete and uninstall the program then reinstall it, it knows that its been previously installed and wont let you run the demo again.
How does it do this ? When you download it does it send a identifiing number (ip ?) to the cdn to let it know youve downloaded it before, or when the program itself installed does it check to see traces of previous installation ?
Most "demo" software does this by a feature borrowed from malware: Incomplete deinstallation. A file or registry key belonging to the software is not removed on deinstallation. On reinstallation the software sees the remainder and can act on it.
Often-used hiding places for such a remainder were the system directory (before UAC arrived), but many register some class GUID - nobody I know of has a real overview of which classes in the registry are or are not genuine.
There are many ways this can be implemented.
The easiest way to implement (and also the easiest way to bypass)
On first run, create a registry (or text file) entry somewhere
Add 1 to the counter every time the task (or the app) is run
Do not include this file/registry in the installer app (so it will persist after uninstallation)
If at any time the count is too high, notify the user that the trial has expired.
Using image diff tools this method is pretty easy to identify and overcome.
The hardest method to overcome or bypass is to use a server. On the first run, generate a hash code based on the users computer name, drive serial number, etc, and post this to your server. The server then tracks this as a unique installation, and allows the app to run. Each time you run the app, you update the server. This way, the user cannot find the breadcrumbs and delete them, since they are on your server. The down side, is that this method will require an Internet connection.
There are probably much more sophisticated methods to achieve this result, but the above are both implementations I've run across.
My software drops breadcrumbs within the users system which is used to check for previous installations. This is a little harder to get around (assuming you don't know what you are looking for, or where) than an internet check against your IP. As you can always spoof your connection information, or just disconnect from the internet while installing.
After intensive searching why certain workstations wouldn't perform a certain action when just being started up in the morning (...) I've discovered that GetPrivateProfileInt just returns the default value and doesn't bother to set GetLastError to something non-zero when the network-subsystem hasn't activated yet (e.g. because the DHCP client is still trying to get hold of an IP address to use.)
Does this sound familiar to someone? Does anybody happen to know what I should/could do about it?
For now I'll correct by using an alternate default value, and stalling a bit while I get my default value.
GetPrivateProfileInt() is one of those innocent looking Windows API functions that has a ton of code behind it. There's a mass of appcompat code, designed to allow Win3 programs to run on modern versions of Windows. One of the side-effects is that it is incredibly slow, it took about 50 msec the last time I profiled it.
Looks like you found a flaw in it. For all I know, it might actually be designed appcompat behavior. Emulating the way this API worked 18 years ago. I have no clue of course if that's accurate.
The very best thing you can do is stop using it. A possible workaround is to open the file first so that your program blocks until the service is up and running.
I would check if the file exists and sleep for a few seconds until the file is there. After some number of tries either use the default value or take an appropriate action.
Is there any "Boot session ID" or (reliable) "Boot timestamp"?
For an installation I need to detect that a scheduled reboot took place indeed.
I guess I could do a dummy MoveFileEx() with MOVEFILE_DELAY_UNTIL_REBOOT, but i did hope for something easier.
(We have to install a 3rd party package that sometimes behaves erratically after an repair/update. In that state, accessing the device may even lock up the system)
(Windows XP, Vista, 7)
For things like this, WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) is often a good starting place. I know you can get current uptime directly through it, which may allow you to determine if a machine recently rebooted.
Here is a blog post with some code samples as well:
http://blogs.technet.com/heyscriptingguy/archive/2004/09/07/how-can-i-tell-if-a-server-has-rebooted.aspx
Depending on your implementation language, you probably just want to pull out the query code from the vbscript.
Apparently Windows has the equivalent of "uptime". Here's more info: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555737
As I understand it, this should tell you how long ago the system was booted. Will that information solve your problem?
You could search the System event log for event 6009 from the EventLog source - this is the first event recorded after each reboot.
I think the best answer has already been given here: Find out if computer rebooted since the last time my program ran?
That seems to be the simplest way. Use GlobalFindAtom() to see if it exists and create it, with GlobalAddAtom(), if it doesn't. It will persist beyond the execution of your program. If your application runs again, and sees that the atom exists, then then it isn't the first run since reboot.
If the computer is restarted, then the atom won't exist, indicating that this is the first run of your program since the reboot.
I've run into this problem before and the solution has usually been to restart IIS. Basically I've made a number of changes to a .wsc file on our server. But when it runs it doesn't run the new code changes I made. I've verified this with event logging at the beginning of the file and it doesn't show up.
My problem is that obviously restarting IIS on our production server is something I'm loathe to do, but we need this running today. I've tried re-registering the file but to no avail.
The server is a 32-bit Server 2008 OS. And the code is running, it still generates the file it is supposed to, but like I said, it's not using the latest changes.
Any other info I can provide, please leave a comment and I'll edit.
Thank you,
Jeff
Edit: Oisin, thanks for the reply and yes I know I hate VBScript, and anything related to it including these Window Script Components. I've expressed such feelings to my manager, but it's a dirty job and someone has to do it!
Yes it's using a Server.CreateObject to call the component.
ANSWER: I've since realized my mistake. I was only 'registering' it over and over, when I should have first 'unregester'ed it the 'register'ed it. Man I feel stupid, but haste makes waste as they say.
Thanks for the response and link!
Eek, you mean WSC as in a Windows Script Component? I haven't written one of them since 2000.
Are you loading it using CreateObject (e.g. it's registered as a COM object via regsvr32), or are you using a file-based moniker to load it? (not registered).
If it's registered, it probably is cached until app restart. If you switched to a file based moniker, e.g. like: Set o = GetObject("script:c:\path\obj.wsc"), you might get away with runtime changes to the .wsc file.
(man, how did I even remember this)
more info here - quick before it's archived! :D
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/resources/scriptshop/default.mspx
-Oisin