IERenderer 2.7.1.9 released

Brian Fluet

posted Mar 14 at 1:23 pm

IERenderer 2.7.1.9 has been released.

Release notes:
· This version fixes an infinite loop issue caused by broken HTML sources containing unfinished comment elements in their head section.
· It also fixes another infinite loop issue triggered by invalid remote image URL redirection handling. It additionally aborts reoccuring redirections automatically and enables the [Esc] key for terminating them in possibly remaining cases.
It is furthermore recommended to enable the progress dialog for providing visual feedback about ongoing remote picture downloads via IER's toolbar button menu.

IER's History page: https://www.pmpgp.de/renderer/History.htm

IER's Download link: https://www.pmpgp.de/renderer/IERenderer.zip

IERenderer 2.7.1.9 has been released. Release notes: · This version fixes an infinite loop issue caused by broken HTML sources containing unfinished comment elements in their head section. · It also fixes another infinite loop issue triggered by invalid remote image URL redirection handling. It additionally aborts reoccuring redirections automatically and enables the [Esc] key for terminating them in possibly remaining cases. It is furthermore recommended to enable the progress dialog for providing visual feedback about ongoing remote picture downloads via IER's toolbar button menu. IER's History page: <https://www.pmpgp.de/renderer/History.htm> IER's Download link: <https://www.pmpgp.de/renderer/IERenderer.zip>

Michael

posted Mar 15 at 9:09 am

Just in case someone would come up with this here as well: Windows 10 has an issue with this release which was yesterday reported as "trojan" on virustotal.com and still is without confirmation by any of the other 64 investigators:

			Michael
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PGP Key ID (RSA 2048): 0xC45D831B
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Michael

posted Mar 15 at 11:51 pm

During a discussion on the PM-WIN mailing list about the reasons for MS Defender banning IERenderer.zip it turns out that it is not complaining about the (excutable) binaries unpacked or installed by it but about the history.htm file included, in particular about an embedded image which is showing a small screenshot of what the setup unpacker creates when manually unpacking the setup file. I can assure you that this is just a properly formatted and standards compliant JPEG file which every browser displays without complaining if you're opening IER's history page as linked to from my signature down below. You may also test this page with virustotal.com which will be reported as clean as well.

During a discussion on the PM-WIN mailing list about the reasons for MS Defender banning IERenderer.zip it turns out that it is **not** complaining about the (excutable) binaries unpacked or installed by it but about the _history.htm_ file included, in particular about an embedded image which is showing a [small screenshot](https://www.pmpgp.de/renderer/History.htm#HowToUnpack) of what the setup unpacker creates when manually unpacking the setup file. I can assure you that this is just a properly formatted and standards compliant JPEG file which every browser displays without complaining if you're opening IER's history page as linked to from my signature down below. You may also test this page with virustotal.com which will be reported as clean as well.

			Michael
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IERenderer's Homepage
PGP Key ID (RSA 2048): 0xC45D831B
S/MIME Fingerprint: 94C6B471 0C623088 A5B27701 742B8666 3B7E657C

PM-1

posted Mar 19 at 9:11 am

Problem seems to be solved, no alert anymore by defender.

Pegasus v4.81 Beta

Michael

posted Mar 19 at 4:35 pm

Problem seems to be solved, no alert anymore by defender.

There's no way to 100% prove anything that does not happen, this is logically impossible because you only need a single instance ever to fail. IOW: That it doesn't cause issues for you doesn't mean it doesn't do or others either, in fact it was like this from the beginning: It only affected some people, not all of them. From the logical view: It may appear to be clean because the sample of testers isn't large enough ...

[quote="pid:56505, uid:29380"]Problem seems to be solved, no alert anymore by defender.[/quote] There's no way to 100% prove anything that does *not* happen, this is logically impossible because you only need a single instance ever to fail. IOW: That it doesn't cause issues for you doesn't mean it doesn't do or others either, in fact it was like this from the beginning: It only affected *some* people, not all of them. From the logical view: It may appear to be clean because the sample of testers isn't large enough ...

			Michael
--
IERenderer's Homepage
PGP Key ID (RSA 2048): 0xC45D831B
S/MIME Fingerprint: 94C6B471 0C623088 A5B27701 742B8666 3B7E657C

rocketboy

posted Mar 20 at 7:04 am

Hi - I got this trojan detected alert just now (20 March) on the latest zip file. Using Win11 Pro. So seems the issue not quite resolved yet.
Win Defender found this: Trojan:Win32/Sonbokli.A!cl and quarantined it.

Hi - I got this trojan detected alert just now (20 March) on the latest zip file. Using Win11 Pro. So seems the issue not quite resolved yet. Win Defender found this: Trojan:Win32/Sonbokli.A!cl and quarantined it.

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