[Therion] Mapiah, again - trojans and oddities

[Rodrigo Severo]

On Saturday, June 14th, 2025 at 8:00 AM, Bruce Mutton <bruce at tomo.co.nz> wrote:

> Rodrigo
>
>> - Windows release creation available at https://mapiah.org/downloads
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> Windows flags this as a trojan Bearfoos.B!ml and has locked it away. Should I be trying to bypass that?

I just sent MapiahSetup_0.2.3.exe to several online virus scanners: all marked the file as clean.

Made to kinds of scan on my Windows virtual box (just used to these rare things that actually needs a Windows environment like creating a Windwos release of Mapiah) and no malware was found.

Also found on the web some posts reporting Bearfoos.B!ml and others as false positives for unknwon .exe files: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/bearfoosaml-false-alarm/37707c6a-8222-44ad-a604-d75918dfb519, https://www.reddit.com/r/antivirus/comments/v4ac41/trojanwin32bearfoosbml/.

Considering all that I would say that Mapiah has no malware.

> I've tried again to access the web version at https://mapiah.org/webappjs/
>
> So far most of the th2 files I try to open crash.

Can you send me an example of a crashing file?

> Those I can open are missing their xvi background images – compare the Mapiah and XTherion snips below.

XVI images aren´t yet supported by Mapiah. Just included on the TODO list for version 0.3.0.

> When, I think, a scrap is selected, there are a lot of options that seem to be irrelevant to scraps, and if I try to set them to a value, they do not ‘stick’.

This options overlay window should record default options for new elements created. I forgot to disable it as its not yet functional.

It is already disabled for version 0.2.4 (not yet released).

To edit scrap options, right click on:

* the scrap select button on the right bottom corner in case there is only one scrap in the file, or* the scrap name in the scrap select dialog box presented when clicking on the scrap select button in case there are multiple scraps in the file.

> Some of the files that will not open give errors like this…
>
> 'petitparser returned a "Failure"' at '_injectContents()' with 'Line being parsed: "point 16235.0 903.25 date -value "2024.06.08" -scale xs -align br"' local info
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> 'petitparser returned a "Failure"' at '_injectContents()' with 'Line being parsed: "point 16333.25 1415.75 date -value "2024.05.26" -scale xs -align l"' local info
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> Is the error message sufficient for you to identify the problems like this, or should I attach the files themselves as issue(s) on https://github.com/rsevero/mapiah/issues ?

Please attach a problematic file on a issue.

> Otherwise, the interface looks promising.

Thanks.

Rodrigo

> Thanks
>
> Bruce
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