dotTech Exclusive: Free 2 year licenses of Safe Returner (an anti-malware program)! [24-hours only]
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Today dotTech joins forces with SafeReturner Anti-Malware Studio to bring dotTechies 2 year licenses of Safe Returner – an anti-malware program – for free!
Safe Returner is not your typical anti-malware software. It does not have live protection and it doesn’t aim to prevent your computer from malware infections. Rather, using its heuristics engine and signature database, Safe Returner is a tool that aims to clean your computer after it has been infected. Here is a description of what Safe Returner is and a list of its features as per the developer:
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Since dotTech has not reviewed Safe Returner, I cannot say how good (or bad) Safe Returner is. However, Softpedia has reviewed Safe Returner and has given it 4/5 stars, so Safe Returner must be doing something right. Since Safe Returner is a security software – and not just your average program – I highly suggest you read Softpedia’s review before you decide if you want to grab Safe Returner or not.
For the next 24-hours, dotTechies are able to grab a 2 year license of Safe Returner for free; if you are interested in getting Safe Returner, follow these simple directions:
Version being given out for free: v1.27.2
Free updates: Yes database updates and program updates (1.x versions only) are free for as long as the license lasts.
Supported OS: Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Win7
Update: If you are on Win7 64-bit, be sure to run Safe Returner as administrator.
Download size: 3.0 MB
Special note: This giveaway is active for 24-hours, from August 28, 2010 03:00 PST to August 29, 2010 03:00 PST. After this 24-hour time period, users will no longer be able to grab the free 2 year license of Safe Returner. However, the developer has informed me anyone that has grabbed the license within the 24-hours can “activate the app whenever they want”. In other words, the timer on the license will start ticking soon as you get it, but you can install/reinstall Safe Returner with the license whenever you want.
- Visit the dotTech Safe Returner promotion page and fill out the short form:
Note: This promotion is available to everyone – everyone may get it for free. However, this is a dotTech.org promotion. Please do not directly link to, copy, paste, or reprint the link to the registration page anywhere else including private or public forums, blogs, file hosting services, etc. If you want to spread information about this offer, you may link to this article by providing a permalink (alternative permalink) to your audience. If you respect our wishes, we will be able to continue to bring you great freebies. If you don’t, we have no incentive to continue our promotions and they may stop.
- After you have filled out your e-mail address and hit “Get It Now”, your license key will be displayed to you:
Copy the serial number because you will need it to register Safe Returner. (NOTE: The “Copy Serial Number” button may not work – you may need to manually select + copy the serial number.)
- Download and install Safe Returner. (If your computer is already infected with malware and the malware is blocking .EXE files from running, download the .COM version of Safe Returner.)
- After you have installed Safe Returner, run it and register it:
- You will be asked to restart Safe Returner:
Restart Safe Returner. If you did it all properly, it should say “Registered” under “Subscription Status”.
- Play around with Safe Returner, come back here, and post a comment providing the developer with feedback on the program.
- Enjoy!
If you have any trouble getting Safe Returner for free, post below and me or other dotTechies will try to assist you.
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@Ande: AFAIK, yes you can.
@chiipster: You need to download v1.27.2. Where did you download the file from? Download it from the link I have in the article – that is v1.27.2.
@John: Please download v1.27.2: http://www.safereturner.com/safereturner.exe.
The file that is supposed to run the program is an SCR file. On my computer, this causes a file viewer program to open. What change should I make so that the program will run?
The file that is supposed to run the program is an SCR file. On my computer, this causes a file viewer program to open.
I checked the file associations, and there is no entry for .SCR.
What change should I make so that the program will run?
Excellent addition, easy registration, fast update and fast scanning. False positives are not a problem if you know what you’re doing and remember they might not always be false, you have to research (which I have no problem doing). Hope this keeps being developed!
Thank you egomoo and Ashraf
Hi,
Same result as for @John (67) on XP SP3 with v.1.27.2 too …..
Umm, SafeReturner =>
‘An unexpected error has occurred, please restart program to try again’ after about 10s of scanning. (reported)
Registration ok. (Restarts program to validate).
Has anyone tried scanning with this without an internet connection? I noted my fan started screaming (electric, not personal !!) – one core occupied by svchost.exe seeking an internet connection.
@laser: rename safereturner.scr to safereturner.exe ,then make a lnk to desktop
that’s all
@David: I’m sorry.
Please download a beta app to test
download here
http://www.safereturner.com/bug/SafeReturner.zip
unzip it and copy to your install folder to replace older one
then run it
then send me the log.ini file locate at %appdata%\SafeReturner\log.ini
egomoo[at]google.com
@cornjaco: That is the point of this software according to http://www.softpedia.com/reviews/windows/Safe-Returner-Review-144403.shtml [refered to in Ashraf's piece today] – see the final paragraph on Softpediapage, which reads “Although aggressive and inclined to false positives, the heuristic engine driving Safe Returner is powerful enough to root out malware. The app is designed as an additional layer of protection for your computer and to intervene where conventional antivirus products couldn’t.”
Greetz.
Patrick.
i have still not received the email from them with the serial. more than 8 hours now.
unfortunately I closed the tab where i requested for license. so what to do now?
Thanks,
Grr
At least with this software, if you know what is installed, you can quickly see any difference.
And I think that is a very great interest
BYE.
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@egomoo: Thanks; your renaming trick worked. What I don’t understand was whether that was a procedure I was instructed to do by the manufacturer and I didn’t notice, or did everyone but me get the file already with an .EXE extension?
grr, I lost lic too and you can just register again and better save the lic. since I had trouble getting it to register. in fact never did. but I use 64 byte os.
I am having trouble installing it correctly it seems. It only gives me a .scr file to launch it. Is this normal? And any time I try to launch it it gives an error message and doesn’t launch. It does show an icon on the taskbar but when I click it nothing happens. The installer will run but it does not seem to install correctly. I am running Windows 7 32-bit.
@egomoo: How do I change the file extension in Windows seven? Renaming it doesn’t seem to work.
Well I figured out how to change the file extension but I still get the same error message. I have a screen shot of the error but have no place to upload it.
Chinaguy,when you have changed the .scr to a .exe you still need to goto your computer/program files/safe returner find safereturner.exe and rightclick and send a shortcut to desktop,that should just about do it hopefully.
The error I am getting is “Access violation at address 00401C69 in module ‘safereturner.exe’ Write of address 00000000. I did that and I am still getting this error. Even when I click the shortcut on the desktop. Oh and the process that it starts uses a ton of CPU.
Wow…. after all this does anyone feel like a “Ginny-Pig”?? I have a sudden urge for a carot and a belly scrach! Finaly were getting a bit of info thanks for that guys! Gonna give it one last try, hope it works out. Wishing you the best of luck with your product and you Ashraf thanks for the hard work!
I’d Like to point out that a lot of people are really having a go at the developer for these problems, such as @LazyBoy who has begun criticising the developer.
Those starting to moan at the developer should be thankful for even getting a chance to use this program, i highly doubt a lot of you could develop AND fully support a program with a one man team. Ashraf and this developer have been working very hard to bring this to you and so far people like LazyBoy have just been litterally taking the piss out of him.
When I go to the link, it tells me that it is available for the month of August, rather than for 24 hours, then adds that it is no longer available. [IMG]http://i33.tinypic.com/11bkmzn.jpg[/IMG] In spite of that, it seems to have downloaded! Yikes! Talk about mixed messages.
@John:
Yes.. The main file in the installations folder, had to be renamed from SafeReturner.scr to SafeReturner.exe
@conn09, you must be a tard as well, can people not read or is it just me? My questions have not been answered and I just get stupid replies. Conn, go back and read every comment from everyone, I know it’s a lot but hey, you need to read them. If you don’t feel like doing that than go back and read just my comments and look at Egomoo’s replies. I’m not trying to bash anyone but this product to me is no good. Egomoo keeps responding with wrong answers and just points out the obvious.
Questions that were never answered – Does the scan for everyone else who can get the program to work take less than a minute to scan?
Does the scan take the same amount of time whether you click yes or the no button?
Why does the ignore list not work right? Also using different options doesn’t seem to affect what get’s scanned and the scan takes the same amount of time.
Conn you couldn’t write a program as well and stop bashing anyone on here, especially myself. I’m just trying to help and pointing out the obvious. I gave it a poor rating because of the poor answers I was getting back and my computer is clean, no malware/viruses to speak of so I don’t even know if this program even works. Also it’s not just me, everyone is getting FP’s and I wouldn’t be suprised that some people have deleted stuff they shouldn’t have, hope their computer is still working!
Conn, what was your experience with this program? can you answer any of my questions or am I just going to get dumb replies again.
I like this program. There’s a thread at wilders security that helps to explain what this program does, what it can do well, and some of its limitations. It is not the one-stop-security solution that most of us dream about, but seems effective within its scope of alerting a user of active malware that is up and running and neutralizing it…