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  1. Jul 6, 2019 #1 of 24
    JoeyS

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    At the suggestion of a nationally know PC guru/consultant, I installed a program called Rogue Killer, which is touted by many to be an EXCELLENT malware detector.

    Upon running it for the first time it detected three occurences of malware in pyTivo. They are all listed as being teh inclusion of VT variants, all with definite maliciuos intents.

    Has anyone ran across this? I did a search in these forums and didn't get any hits.

    TIA
     
  2. Jul 7, 2019 #2 of 24
    JoeKustra

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  3. Jul 7, 2019 #3 of 24
    wmcbrine

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    No, pyTivo is not malware, as thousands can attest. Whether or not your specific copy might be infected, I can't say. But I doubt it. False positives are fairly common.
     
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    dianebrat

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    No, women and non-binary people can also use and enjoy it.
    ;)
     
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    Dan203

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    The source code for pyTivo is available on GitHub. The Desktop UI is not, but it's basically just a fancy webpage written in Angular and wrapped in a browser window using another open source project called Electron. I never released the source for the Desktop UI part mainly because I'm a bit embarrassed by the code. I wrote it while learning Angular so it's not a great example of how to do Angular properly. I know Angular a lot better now, and have done a few other projects using it, and I can see a lot of mistakes I made when writing this. But it works, and I don’t want to rewrite it from scratch, so it is what it is.
     
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  6. Jul 7, 2019 #6 of 24
    dlfl

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    What are VT Variants? (Googling didn't help).
     
  7. Jul 7, 2019 #7 of 24
    Mikeguy

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    I hope that China is enjoying seeing what TV shows I'm transferring from my PC to my TiVo box.
     
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    jim8650

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    excellent
     
  9. Jul 8, 2019 #9 of 24
    Dan203

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    I think it stands for VirusTotal....

    VirusTotal - Wikipedia
     
  10. Jul 8, 2019 #10 of 24
    dlfl

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    I found that in my search but couldn't see any description of a "VT Variant". Also the Rogue Killer program mentioned by the OP wasn't listed among the many programs using VirusTotal.
     
  11. Jul 8, 2019 #11 of 24
    Dan203

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    I think "VT Variant" means it's a variant of one of the malware programs listed by VirusTotal. But I'm really just guessing based on context.
     
  12. Jul 9, 2019 #12 of 24
    Rowan

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    I would love to get a copy of the Desktop UI (in any condition). Love your program and use it all the time and would like to add in automatic show downloading. I currently have to use kmttg to automate the downloads but would like to use your program instead. I will get the changes that I make back to you if you want them.
     
  13. Jul 9, 2019 #13 of 24
    Dan203

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    I actually looked into adding that. Kmttg uses a very different interface to TiVo then pyTivo does. It uses a special interface called the mind/RPC. The developer of kmttg has put a lot of effort into reverse engineering that interface and has to extract a hacked certificate from the iOS app to make it work. I didn’t want to put a lot of effort into a feature that required that hacked certificate for fear that TiVo would shut it down. Doing automatic downloads via the http interface isn’t that great. It could be done, but you'd only be able to set it up for shows that you already have a recording for you wouldn’t be able to search or even set it up for SPs that didn’t have a current recording. Not sure how useful that would be.
     
  14. Jul 9, 2019 #14 of 24
    Mikeguy

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    ? pyTivo Desktop
     
  15. Jul 10, 2019 #15 of 24
    minimeh

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    Pretty sure @Rowan is referring to the source code for the desktop UI, not the compiled application. Even the github link on that page is to the pytivo source code, again not the desktop UI. Just saying...
     
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    Sparky1234

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    This is a joke, right? Typos and all.....
     
  17. Jul 10, 2019 #17 of 24
    dlfl

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    Have to admit I wondered who the "nationally known PC guru/consultant" is. :p. How much did he charge?
     
  18. Jul 10, 2019 #18 of 24
    Rowan

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    I was thinking of doing something simple. If the scheduler was turned on then it would cause the UI to do a refresh at some interval, then after the shows list reload I would look through the shows for one that matches. I would need to add some extra code to the UI to keep and save a list of shows to match up with. It would need to be a partial regex since the shows names sometimes changes. If I found a match then I would kickoff a download using the UI download. Of course I would need to keep a list of shows that are already processed or they would just download again.

    So those changes would not be too big and would give a simple way of automating the download of shows.
     
  19. Jul 10, 2019 #19 of 24
    dianebrat

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    Yeah, I'm sure it was one of the many blog/influencer types that some people think have actually smarts as opposed to shilling product, ala a low rent Kim Kommando
     
  20. Jul 10, 2019 #20 of 24
    KevTech

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    I downloaded and ran the portable version of this Rogue Killer program and all came out clean.

    I have to wonder where the OP downloaded Pytivo from as if not from official links then it is possible they downloaded an infected program.

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