I believe I have fixed your water issues with Pamlico Sound and the like. Try updating your maps from my server and see what you see now.

Andrew, KA2DDO
author of YAAC

oops!? You are correct, it is YAAP 159.? Sorry about that.

Fred

Thanks for reminding me of that little twist. There is no good technology that some <censored> individual can't turn to evil. However, the website you suggested isn't raising flags from the same AV products that I got the reports on from YAAC users, and I sent them the YAAC.jar file from the official build 159 release (re-extracted from the zip file on my website, in case the website was attacked).

So, hopefully the rebuild for build 160 will move the bits around enough to avoid further false positives.

Andrew, KA2DDO
author of YAAC

________________________________________
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Dave_G0WBX via groups.io
Sent: Friday, November 27, 2020 11:23 AM
Subject: Re: [yaac-users] weird attack from AVG AntiVirus on Windows

Hi.

Maybe a false positive.

Try submitting the file(s) to the virustotal website



and see how many (if any) other AV tools spark on it...

It's also not unknown, for legitimate and safe library code to have been
used by some miscreant, so it then gets wrongly tagged with a "It's
Malicious" flag.

Had that happen at work some years ago with code I was working on. A
third party multi-mode communications library was being flagged as bad.
Our co's IT people helped submit it for "analysis", where it was found
safe. Seems someone else was using the same library embedded in some
malware.

73.

Dave G8KBV

--
Created on and sent from a Unix like PC running and using free and open source software:

I hope it didn't really say "YAAP 1590" instead of "YAAC 159", because that definitely would have been a hacked version.

I just downloaded from SourceForge, and it's bit-for-bit identical with the version on my own website, so I'm not sure why that one worked but the other one didn't. I confirmed that the SSL certificate for my website hasn't expired yet, so that's not an issue.

Andrew, KA2DDO

________________________________________
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of wk1f via groups.io <wk1f@...>
Sent: Friday, November 27, 2020 10:43 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [yaac-users] weird attack from AVG AntiVirus on Windows

Hi Andrew,

I believe it was SourceForge and it was "YAAP - version 1.0-beta 1590(16-nov-2020)", what I am now using as test site (WK1F-3)

Fred

Hi.

Maybe a false positive.

Try submitting the file(s) to the virustotal website

???

and see how many (if any) other AV tools spark on it...

It's also not unknown, for legitimate and safe library code to have been
used by some miscreant, so it then gets wrongly tagged with a "It's
Malicious" flag.

Had that happen at work some years ago with code I was working on.? A
third party multi-mode communications library was being flagged as bad.?
Our co's IT people helped submit it for "analysis", where it was found
safe.? Seems someone else was using the same library embedded in some
malware.

73.

Dave G8KBV



--
Created on and sent from a Unix like PC running and using free and open source software:

Hi Andrew,

I believe it was SourceForge and it was "YAAP - version 1.0-beta 1590(16-nov-2020)", what I am now using as test site (WK1F-3)

Fred

Hmmm... which other site did you download it from? And what build of YAAC did you end up downloading?

That's really suspicious, as there are only two authorized sites to get YAAC from, that are mentioned in every build release notes, which are my personal website, and SourceForge. Anyplace else is not authorized or verified by me, and most of those other sites are months or years out of date (like the SoftPedia site pushing build 58, 101 builds out of date as of this message's publishing date).

In the meantime, I am working on an early release of build 160, in hopes that will clear whatever bit-pattern issue caused the anti-virus tools to trigger on build 159.

Andrew, KA2DDO
author of YAAC

________________________________________
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of wk1f via groups.io <wk1f@...>
Sent: Friday, November 27, 2020 8:56 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [yaac-users] weird attack from AVG AntiVirus on Windows

This happened to me also.
I'm using Avast antivirus software Ver 220.9.2437 (build 20.9.5758.615).
YAAP - version 1.0-beta 1590(16-nov-2020)
Winversion - 2004(OS build 19041-630)

It occurred when I tried to use the link from your "update" message. Down loaded from another site and it works ok.

Fred

This happened to me also.
I'm using Avast antivirus software Ver 220.9.2437 (build 20.9.5758.615).
YAAP - version 1.0-beta 1590(16-nov-2020)
Winversion - 2004(OS build 19041-630)

It occurred when I tried to use the link from your "update" message.? Down loaded from another site and it works ok.

Fred

Greetings, all users.

There may be a problem, not with YAAC, but with the AVG AntiVirus tool. I have received a report from a user that he couldn't run YAAC. It turns out his YAAC.jar file was gone. Attempts to reinstall it failed with a "no permissions" error trying to unpack the YAAC.jar file from the YAAC.zip file (all other files were unpacked successfully). After rebooting the system, the user was able to unpack the YAAC.zip file, but, upon attempting to run YAAC, it immediately aborted and the AVG antivirus software claimed the jar file contained a virus named IDP.HELU.JarMal14 and moved the file to its quarantine area (which also contained the previous copy of YAAC.jar). This so far only appears to be an issue for build#159, but I'm not sure if it applies to other releases.

There does not appear to be a successful attack on my webserver, so the distribution file should be OK. I am assuming that somehow the latest compile of the JAR file put in a bit pattern that looked like a virus signature, so I am going to get the next build out as soon as possible.

Please let me know if you are seeing similar issues, and, if so, the name and version/build of your operating system and the antivirus software you are using.

Andrew, KA2DDO
author of YAAC

ERROR Can’t find YAAC upgrade program

This is odd. What is the exact text of the error message (including any stack traceback)? If you have the YAACDistro.zip file, then the file is there. Why it wasn't able to proceed has to be for some other reason.

YAAC's upgrader was designed assuming the user that is using it owns the installed files. This is potentially a security risk, but since YAAC does not require significant privileges to run and can be built from source code and re-installed by the user, it wasn't considered risky. However, if you are using a shared copy of YAAC on a computer with multiple user accounts, no account other than the installing account would be able to write over the existing YAAC files with the upgrade.

Alternatively, do you still have the file YAAC/lib/upgrade.jar present on your system? This is the upgrading program, so if it is missing, YAAC can't be automatically upgraded. Note that all the upgrader does is unzip the YAACDistro.zip file over the YAAC installation, then delete the YAACDistro.zip file. So you can do this manually.

Andrew, KA2DDO
author of YAAC

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of WB9EZB <pikemike999@...>
Sent: Monday, November 23, 2020 10:11 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [yaac-users] Update help

I clicked on update ...after downloading I got a message stating the
update file could not be found. I checked the YAAC directory and
saw a new file YAACDistro.zip. How do I manually update after
the file is downloaded ? Also is there a way to save Favorite
stations you want to work ?
Thanks, Michael

You have two separate questions here.

1. APRS-IS is _not_ accessed via HTTP, so HTTP proxies won't work for it. Support for SOCKS5 is provided, but has never been tested (I don't have a SOCKS server to test with). Fill in the SOCKS parameters on your APRS-IS port definition, and see if it works. If it doesn't, send me a bug report.

2. For all other true HTTP/HTTPS accesses, the Java runtime has options to specify using HTTP proxies. There are several different ways to specify it, but note that all of these are Java options, not YAAC options, so they have to be specified on the command line between the "java" keyword and the "-jar" option.

a. You can specify -Djava.net.useSystemProxies=true on your command line if your operating system supports system-default proxies, i.e.

java -Djava.net.useSystemProxies=true -jar YAAC.jar

b. If the above doesn't work, and you can find out what your local proxy's identification is, you can specify the proxy server explicitly:

java -Dhttp.proxyHost=host.domain.name -Dhttp.proxyPort=80 -jar YAAC.jar

where host.domain.name is the local domain name of your proxy server (ex. proxy.mycompany.com), and 80 is the port to connect to at the server (defaulting to the standard HTTP port 80). Similarly, HTTPS proxys are specified with https.proxyHost and https.proxyPort.

In this case you may also want to specify -Dhttp.nonProxyHosts=list.of.domain.names for computers you don't want proxying to be used.

Hope this helps.

Andrew, KA2DDO
author of YAAC

________________________________________
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Brett Warden
Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2020 12:44 PM
Subject: [yaac-users] Using HTTP and/or SOCKS5 proxy servers

Is there any way to configure YAAC to use proxy servers for APRS-IS or map tiles? I'm using it in a fairly restrictive environment where external access is only allowed through (filtering) proxies. I'm well aware of proxifier apps, but for some reason they're generally disallowed here, while natively proxy-supporting apps are perfectly acceptable.

Is there any way to configure YAAC to use proxy servers for APRS-IS or map tiles? I'm using it in a fairly restrictive environment where external access is only allowed through (filtering) proxies. I'm well aware of proxifier apps, but for some reason they're generally disallowed here, while natively proxy-supporting apps are perfectly acceptable.

Not quite enough. Like I said, to import maps yourself, you need to raise the Java heap limit to at 2048m, preferably 3072m; 1024m isn't enough. Note you don't need this for normal YAAC operation; this is only for the extreme memory demands of the importer.

________________________________________
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Ernest Bazzinotti <ernestbazzinotti2020@...>
Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2020 12:55 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [yaac-users] Cannot update maps in YAAC. Java Heap memory too low.

Hello,

Thank you for the quick response.O.K. here goes.
I'm running Windows 10 on a laptop with 6 gig's of ram.
I don't run any other apps such as Office or Firefox while running YAAC.
I'm running ver 159 on the YAAC. Ver 8, 271 on the Java.
I went into the configuration file in Java and changed the setting to -Xmx1024m.

I did utilize the Tile/Import feature in YAAC. So I was able to update the maps.
I'm open to any suggestions.

Thank you for your time. 73's.

Sincerely,

Ernest Bazzinotti KC1LKB
ebazz@...<mailto:ebazz@...>

On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 8:50 PM Andrew P. <andrewemt@...<mailto:andrewemt@...>> wrote:
Greetings.

What kind of machine are you running YAAC on? Due to the various buffering and indexing tricks the importer does to keep from overheating the motors on your disk drive, your computer needs at least 4GB of RAM, and more Java heap than the minimum number displayed in the "heap low" error message (assuming you have upgraded to build#159, which now actually gives you the minimum required space; said minimum not accounting for any other memory needed to process incoming APRS packets while the import is happening). In general, any heap limit less than 2 GB is probably not enough, and whatever limit you specify has to be at least 1 GB less than the actual RAM in your computer, and you can't be running other memory-hog applications like Microsoft Office or a web browser at the same time.

It's much faster to just pull the already-imported data from my website with the File->OpenStreetMap->Download Pre-Imported Tiles menu choice. Alas, due to some breakage introduced by the "improved" caching algorithms of recent Linux kernels, I haven't successfully imported the planet-wide OSM database since last October.

But if you really want to import it yourself, you'll need to invoke YAAC from a command prompt with a command like this:

java -Xmx2048m -jar YAAC.jar

Since you haven't identified the version of the Java runtime nor the operating system you are using, I'm not really sure what this "Java configuration menu" thing is, so I have no idea if the specified change will actually do anything.

Andrew, KA2DDO
author of YAAC
________________________________________
From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of ernestbazzinotti2020@...<mailto:ernestbazzinotti2020@...> <ernestbazzinotti2020@...<mailto:ernestbazzinotti2020@...>>
Sent: Friday, November 20, 2020 8:16 PM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: [yaac-users] Cannot update maps in YAAC. Java Heap memory too low.

Hello,

I'm trying to update my maps. From within YAAC I download only the maps for the New England area.
(Not the whole country.)

When I go to import the map I get "Java heap memory too low" error.
I went to the Java configuration menu and increase the runtime parameter to -Xmx512m.
Rebooted and then loaded YAAC. Nothing changed.
Can you help? How do I increase the Java memory to work with YAAC?

Step by step please. I am not a guru at this stuff.
Thank you for your time and patience. 73's.

Ernest Bazzinotti KC1LKB
Rockland, MA
ebazz@...<mailto:ebazz@...>

I clicked on update ...after downloading I got a message stating the
update ?file could not be found. ?I checked the YAAC directory and
saw a new file ?YAACDistro.zip. ?How do I manually update after
the file is downloaded ? ?Also is there a way to save Favorite
stations you want to work ?
Thanks, Michael

Greetings.

What kind of machine are you running YAAC on? Due to the various buffering and indexing tricks the importer does to keep from overheating the motors on your disk drive, your computer needs at least 4GB of RAM, and more Java heap than the minimum number displayed in the "heap low" error message (assuming you have upgraded to build#159, which now actually gives you the minimum required space; said minimum not accounting for any other memory needed to process incoming APRS packets while the import is happening). In general, any heap limit less than 2 GB is probably not enough, and whatever limit you specify has to be at least 1 GB less than the actual RAM in your computer, and you can't be running other memory-hog applications like Microsoft Office or a web browser at the same time.

It's much faster to just pull the already-imported data from my website with the File->OpenStreetMap->Download Pre-Imported Tiles menu choice. Alas, due to some breakage introduced by the "improved" caching algorithms of recent Linux kernels, I haven't successfully imported the planet-wide OSM database since last October.

But if you really want to import it yourself, you'll need to invoke YAAC from a command prompt with a command like this:

java -Xmx2048m -jar YAAC.jar

Since you haven't identified the version of the Java runtime nor the operating system you are using, I'm not really sure what this "Java configuration menu" thing is, so I have no idea if the specified change will actually do anything.

Andrew, KA2DDO
author of YAAC
________________________________________
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of ernestbazzinotti2020@... <ernestbazzinotti2020@...>
Sent: Friday, November 20, 2020 8:16 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [yaac-users] Cannot update maps in YAAC. Java Heap memory too low.

Hello,

I'm trying to update my maps. From within YAAC I download only the maps for the New England area.
(Not the whole country.)

When I go to import the map I get "Java heap memory too low" error.
I went to the Java configuration menu and increase the runtime parameter to -Xmx512m.
Rebooted and then loaded YAAC. Nothing changed.
Can you help? How do I increase the Java memory to work with YAAC?

Step by step please. I am not a guru at this stuff.
Thank you for your time and patience. 73's.

Ernest Bazzinotti KC1LKB
Rockland, MA
ebazz@...

Hello,

I'm trying to update my maps. From within YAAC I download only the maps for the New England area.
(Not the whole country.)

When I go to import the map I get "Java heap memory too low" error.
I went to the Java configuration menu and increase the runtime parameter to -Xmx512m.
Rebooted and then loaded YAAC. Nothing changed.
Can you help? How do I increase the Java memory to work with YAAC?

Step by step please. I am not a guru at? this stuff.
Thank you for your time and patience.?? 73's.

Ernest Bazzinotti KC1LKB
Rockland, MA
ebazz@...

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Joe,

Can you point me to the document you are referring. ?Mine may be old and the one on the TNC-Pi website does not talk about bluetooth. ?Note I moved to a RPI 3 from a RPI2 and that seems to be the issue.

Tim KM4ESU?