Sigil accessing windows registry keys

tleon · 07-11-2011, 04:19 PM

Hi,

I'm using version 0.4.0RC1 of Sigil under Windows 7.

After running Sigil for a while I get a warning from my security suite that Sigil is behaving suspicious.

Sigil is accessing registry keys that make me wonder why it is doing this.
One example is
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\servic es\SharedAccess\Epoch]

Has anybody else observed such behavior?

The checksums of my Sigil.exe are
CRC-32: 136076c3
MD4: 61f610ffd818e1224877c5c515e652bb
MD5: 055dd4be527afbb093ffbc1de7c51cc6
SHA-1: 3c0cbdc35daa89e187419b7b833523de08cba977

Regards
Thomas

Jabby · 07-11-2011, 08:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tleon

Hi,

I'm using version 0.4.0RC1 of Sigil under Windows 7.

After running Sigil for a while I get a warning from my security suite that Sigil is behaving suspicious.

Sigil is accessing registry keys that make me wonder why it is doing this.
One example is
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\servic es\SharedAccess\Epoch]

Has anybody else observed such behavior?

The checksums of my Sigil.exe are
CRC-32: 136076c3
MD4: 61f610ffd818e1224877c5c515e652bb
MD5: 055dd4be527afbb093ffbc1de7c51cc6
SHA-1: 3c0cbdc35daa89e187419b7b833523de08cba977

Regards
Thomas

Hi Thomas-

Both versions of Sigil store info about the last five opened files in the registry.

Regards - John

tleon · 07-12-2011, 03:48 PM

Hi Jabby,

what made me wonder is that the cited registry key belongs to the firewall settings. It's true that Sigil accesses a lot of keys most of which are definitly harmless. But some look strange to me.

Regards
Thomas

theducks · 07-12-2011, 04:43 PM

Depending on your Install time options, Sigil asked for permission to install Open Candy.
Read the discussion: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...ighlight=candy

tleon · 07-15-2011, 04:03 PM

Ok, I found a registry key pointing to opencandy. I will try to find out if this is the reason for the observed behaviour. Thanks.

07-11-2011, 04:19 PM	#1
tleon Member Posts: 16 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2011 Device: Kindle	Sigil accessing windows registry keys Hi, I'm using version 0.4.0RC1 of Sigil under Windows 7. After running Sigil for a while I get a warning from my security suite that Sigil is behaving suspicious. Sigil is accessing registry keys that make me wonder why it is doing this. One example is [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\servic es\SharedAccess\Epoch] Has anybody else observed such behavior? The checksums of my Sigil.exe are CRC-32: 136076c3 MD4: 61f610ffd818e1224877c5c515e652bb MD5: 055dd4be527afbb093ffbc1de7c51cc6 SHA-1: 3c0cbdc35daa89e187419b7b833523de08cba977 Regards Thomas

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07-12-2011, 03:48 PM	#3
tleon Member Posts: 16 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2011 Device: Kindle	Hi Jabby, what made me wonder is that the cited registry key belongs to the firewall settings. It's true that Sigil accesses a lot of keys most of which are definitly harmless. But some look strange to me. Regards Thomas

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07-15-2011, 04:03 PM	#5
tleon Member Posts: 16 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2011 Device: Kindle	Ok, I found a registry key pointing to opencandy. I will try to find out if this is the reason for the observed behaviour. Thanks.

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