Torpark writes to system temp folder

Matt Thorne mlthorne at gmail.com
Fri Feb 24 03:22:20 UTC 2006


I beleive, although I am not certain, that this is because the
temporary folder is relative to the base drive letter that the torpark
folder rests in. so you are probably correct in that it is because you
aren't using a thumbdrive.
I will attempt to confirm this and get back to the group.

-=Matt=-

On 2/23/06, nosnoops at fastmail.fm <nosnoops at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> Hi, another issue about security.
>
> When running Torpark, it appear in Windows XP´s default
> temp folder (Documents and Settings/.../Temp) as this:
>
> nst2E.tmp     <-this is a folder
> ~DFF991.tmp   <-this is a file
>
> Into the folder is this items:
>
> ExecDos.dll
> FindProcDLL.dll
> newadvsplash.dll
> splash.gif
> System.dll
>
> Now that may be due to I have the Torpark folder on the
> same drive, or what? If Torpark was running from another
> (temporary inserted) drive, would it then have to create
> the whole path to an own Temp directory on it´s own drive?
>
> I´ve not tested with Torpark externally. Maybe this thing
> is corrected in the release 1.5.0.2 (I´m running 1.5.0.1),
> otherwise it probably are a bug that can be taken care of
> in a future release, I hope.
>
>
>
>
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