Au3toCmd -- Avoid false virus positives. (Version: 2022.09.01)

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Au3toCmd  ---  Avoid false virus positives

Since many virus scanners sometimes prevent a "compiled autoit EXE" from being executed as "false positive", the "*.A3X" format is a suitable format to avoid this problem.

See here for more information.
In order to simplify this procedure, I wrote the Au3toCmd script. Here a *.Cmd file is generated from a *.Au3 file. The necessary files Autoit3.exe and *.A3x are added to the "*.Cmd" file as "alternate data streams" "Base64" encoded data.
Now the Autoit Script can be called by clicking on the cmd file and the anti-virus scanners do not recognize the "false positive".
If the short-term flashing of the CMD window bothers you, you can click the desktop shutcut that runs in a minimized window.

Unfortunately, because the "alternate data streams", this CMD file cannot be distributed via FTP or email.
Only a USB sti ck or removable disk formatted with NTFS can be used.

As the new version now uses Base64 data instead of ADS, this statement is out of date.
For reasons of compatibility, the old version was sunk into the spoiler here.

Spoiler

To solve this problem, Au3toCmd can be used to create a ZIP/EXE  file that is email and FTP compatible. 
Transfer this file to the target directory on the target system.
Expand the ZIP file on the target system and execute the "*.ADS.Run-me-first.cmd" script.
or
Execute the self extracting Setup.exe.

The original CMD file is created again and the auxiliary files are deleted.

Edit (2020.05.16)  The new version also accepts A3X and EXE files. This means that A3X and EXE files that have been compiled with special options can be used. As a side effect, other EXE files can also be included in the CMD file and therefore not detectable by virus scanners.

Edit (2020.07.18)  Desktop shortcuts created automatically. Just delete them, if you don't like them.

Edit (2020.07.22)  Using codepage 1252 

Edit (2020.12.07) Self extracting Setup.exe added 

Edit (2020.12.12) 32 Bit Windows enabled. ANSI console enabled. 

Edit (2020.12.21) Input of remote system target directory added. 

Edit (2021.05.13) Adapted to the new www.7-zip.org directory structure. No functional changes. 

Edit (2021.05.15) Fixed bug in Setup.exe processing. No functional changes. 

Edit (2021.05.17) Fixed bug when using Windows7. No functional changes. 

Here the source of Au3toCmd.au3 

This is a nice example of peaceful interaction between Autoit (*. au3), Dos (*. cmd), Powershell(*.ps1) and VSBasic (*. vbs)

 

 

 

The script can be called with a file name of an AU3 script as a parameter.
If no name is entered, a query is made.
For more information, see the header of the script. 

Suggestions, improvements and bug reports are welcome.

Here the versions using base64 data

Version: 2022.05.12  (Support blanks in pathnames)
Version: 2022.06.23  (Support release candidates. Changed @CrLf to @Lf. Annual cleaning. Optimized #AutoIt3Wrapper handling)
Version: 2022.07.22  (Support scripts with the same name but different content in different directories)
Version: 2022.07.27  (Support blanks in usernames)
Au3toCmd.au3

Version: 2022.09.01  (Optimized annual cleaning)
Au3toCmd.au3

Edited September 1, 2022 by Exit
new version

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As can be seen in the first post, the functionality has been extended to A3X and EXE files.
It would be great if you would test the script and give feedback here. At least a 💚 in the first post.

Thanks 

[Borje]

Hi all members when i run the au3tocmd program everything works fine but I have a question: if you select an exe file with icon you can somehow get the icon from the exe file that was previously selected and then when you will create shortcut so the exe file icon appears in the cmd shortcut?

[Exit]

I just uploaded a new version that takes @Borje's request into account.
If there is an associated * .ico file or an icon in the * .exe source file, this icon is used in the link.
Furthermore, a ZIP file can now also be created in Windows 7, provided that at least Powershell 5.0 was additionally installed.

@Borje: Can you please test the new features 😀

[Borje]

Exit fixed it and all works perfect now  thank you Exit you so much you are a super man.

[Skysnake]

Interesting solution

[TallPaul]

Sorry for the rookie confusion here, but here goes...

In my current test project using Java Selenium, when I run it locally from Eclipse, I start the browser by providing my application URL, and then run auth.exe in order to respond to a Windows NTLM login prompt.  Everything works fine so far, but based on what I am reading and hearing, it sounds like I can anticipate running into this "false positive" antivirus issue when I go to operationalize my test with Github, Bamboo/Azure, and Saucelabs.

I copied the script text from these posts into my Au3toCmd.au3 file.  I now have the following files in my project folder and I just now installed Autoit3 to my computer.  Where do I navigate to, and which command(s) do I issue to, generate the .cmd file?  And then in my test, what file do I run in place of the current auth.exe to respond the Windows login?

Thanks very much.  This script From Exit looks like a winner !

 

Directory of C:\Users\my-user-info\git\my-test-folder\src\main\resources\autoit

06/15/2020  03:02 PM    <DIR>          .
06/15/2020  03:02 PM    <DIR>          ..
06/15/2020  03:05 PM             7,519    Au3toCmd.au3
02/21/2020  03:04 PM               190     auth.au3
02/21/2020  03:04 PM           866,304 auth.exe
02/21/2020  03:04 PM                48      setvalue.au3
02/21/2020  03:04 PM           865,792 setvalue.exe
               5 File(s)      1,739,853 bytes
               2 Dir(s)  19,080,040,448 bytes free

[Borje]

Hi Exit

I had some trouble I can not have the zip function to work i have installer powershell 5.1 but not works

please see attached file. What do you think the problem is? 

[Exit]

@Borje  Just test if the Powershell Compress-Archive  function is available.

Open a command line prompt and enter: 

Powershell Compress-Archive -? 

Show the output messages here.

 

[Borje]

Ok here is that.

 

 

[Borje]

Windows PowerShell
Copyright (C) 2016 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

PS C:\Users\Börje> Powershell Compress-Archive -?

NAME
    Compress-Archive

SYNTAX
    Compress-Archive [-Path] <string[]> [-DestinationPath] <string> [-CompressionLevel {Optimal | NoCompression | Faste
    st}] [-WhatIf] [-Confirm]  [<CommonParameters>]

    Compress-Archive [-Path] <string[]> [-DestinationPath] <string> -Update [-CompressionLevel {Optimal | NoCompression
     | Fastest}] [-WhatIf] [-Confirm]  [<CommonParameters>]

    Compress-Archive [-Path] <string[]> [-DestinationPath] <string> -Force [-CompressionLevel {Optimal | NoCompression
    | Fastest}] [-WhatIf] [-Confirm]  [<CommonParameters>]

    Compress-Archive [-DestinationPath] <string> -LiteralPath <string[]> -Update [-CompressionLevel {Optimal | NoCompre
    ssion | Fastest}] [-WhatIf] [-Confirm]  [<CommonParameters>]

    Compress-Archive [-DestinationPath] <string> -LiteralPath <string[]> -Force [-CompressionLevel {Optimal | NoCompres
    sion | Fastest}] [-WhatIf] [-Confirm]  [<CommonParameters>]

    Compress-Archive [-DestinationPath] <string> -LiteralPath <string[]> [-CompressionLevel {Optimal | NoCompression |
    Fastest}] [-WhatIf] [-Confirm]  [<CommonParameters>]

ALIASES
    None

REMARKS
    Get-Help cannot find the Help files for this cmdlet on this computer. It is displaying only partial help.
        -- To download and install Help files for the module that includes this cmdlet, use Update-Help.
        -- To view the Help topic for this cmdlet online, type: "Get-Help Compress-Archive -Online" or
           go to http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=393252.

 

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@Borje

Do you have a blank or special character in the path name?

Please show your source pathname

Edited July 7, 2020 by Exit

[Borje]

My patch name is undetect

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Do you have a blank or special character in the path name?
Please show the full path name.
For example:
"C:\users\admin\autoit\test.au3"

[Borje]

No, my path is c:\undetect\test.au3 from there i run the file, but is that you mean?

[Exit]

Please save a copy of Test.au3 on the desktop and try it from there.
I suspect an authority problem with the directory 'undetect'.

[Borje]

Ok i have done that and that's works you have right undetect is not good to use. Thanks for your help !!!

[Exit]

It is usually a bad idea to use the filesystem outside of your own user directory.
In your case, Powershell was installed correctly, but had no authorization to write to "undetect".
The error message is therefore misleading.
Let's see what I can do there.

[Borje]

Ok thanks for the info it works good now, Let's see what you can do  to error message is therefore misleading. but you are a very good programmer. 

[Borje]

My question here is after I run the script and processed a file where is the program data or that file i have processed stored?

Is that anybody here that knows and can explain.