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NOTE: This issue was brought to my attention by etc6849 and I have confirmed it presents a security threat to Premise users.
Back in the days when Premise Home Control was a commercial product, premisesystems.com was its home. Premise's Builder program is hard-coded to display the site each and every time you run it.
After Motorola shelved Premise, someone bought the premisesystems.com domain and posted a catch-all web page containing links having nothing to do with Premise Home Control. Viewed within Builder, it was nothing more than a visual nuisance, but now it is a source of a Javascript-based Trojan that Microsoft Security Essentials rates as a severe threat.
Fortunately, it has always been possible to change Builder's default startup URL. In the past it was purely cosmetic but now it is a must. Builder's startup URL is hard-coded in psysui.dll and can be changed to anything you want including nothing at all.
The following post described how to change builder's startup URL. You will need to download free software to perform the modification. If you want a simpler solution, I have posted a modified version of psysui.dll, in Premise Downloads, whose startup URL is blank.
I was unaware of this threat because I eliminated Builder's startup URL a long time ago. etc6849 reported the issue to me recently. Today I installed a new instance of Premise on a Windows 7 PC, using his excellent installation instructions. I encountered the issue the instant I started Builder when Microsoft Security Essentials blocked and reported the trojan.
If you are installing Premise for the first time, I recommend you eliminate, or modify, Builder's startup URL prior to running Builder. It is no longer a cosmetic fix but a necessity.
Back in the days when Premise Home Control was a commercial product, premisesystems.com was its home. Premise's Builder program is hard-coded to display the site each and every time you run it.
After Motorola shelved Premise, someone bought the premisesystems.com domain and posted a catch-all web page containing links having nothing to do with Premise Home Control. Viewed within Builder, it was nothing more than a visual nuisance, but now it is a source of a Javascript-based Trojan that Microsoft Security Essentials rates as a severe threat.
Fortunately, it has always been possible to change Builder's default startup URL. In the past it was purely cosmetic but now it is a must. Builder's startup URL is hard-coded in psysui.dll and can be changed to anything you want including nothing at all.
The following post described how to change builder's startup URL. You will need to download free software to perform the modification. If you want a simpler solution, I have posted a modified version of psysui.dll, in Premise Downloads, whose startup URL is blank.
I was unaware of this threat because I eliminated Builder's startup URL a long time ago. etc6849 reported the issue to me recently. Today I installed a new instance of Premise on a Windows 7 PC, using his excellent installation instructions. I encountered the issue the instant I started Builder when Microsoft Security Essentials blocked and reported the trojan.
If you are installing Premise for the first time, I recommend you eliminate, or modify, Builder's startup URL prior to running Builder. It is no longer a cosmetic fix but a necessity.