Auth Window Double Normal Width. Resiszing not Persistent.

[Eternal9100]

Description

Auth Desktop 4.2.8 Windows and Linux (deb, Linux Mint 22.1), App window is double the normal width for no apparent reason. Reduction to more useful width does not persist between sessions.

Version

4.2.8

What product are you using?

Ente Auth

What platform are you using?

Desktop - Linux, Desktop - Windows

[BrianG61UK]

I already tried to ask about this in various places, including on a commit that I suspect might be the cause. No responses at all.
Came here to turn it into an issue, but found that you had already done it for me. Thanks.

[Eternal9100]

I'm having real doubts about quality control now. It must have been obvious during testing. The Windows error on exit persists and updates introduce new bugs faster than they clear the old bugs. I gave some funds to this project but I think I'll be going back to Authy on the phone and KeepassXC on the desktop. I wasn't affected by the Authy hack. This is a great project, but right now it is not proving that a FOSS project can equal a commercial one. Disapointing :(

[Eternal9100]

The window size is now resolved in 4.2.8. With respect to the crash on exit in Win. I had just tried another flutter packaged app (rcloneview) and it does the same thing. This appears to be a flutter problem in Windows. As its packaged there is not a lot the Ente devs cannot do about it, as they can't with Electron, but I suggest they communicate that.

[BrianG61UK]

@ua741 Is this the way things work at Ente? Bug reports ignored. Attempts at discussing the consequences of code changes ignored.

[BrianG61UK]

The window size is now resolved in 4.2.8.

Please explain. It's still messed up on Windows.

Also, 4.3.1 is blocked by Windows defender. Multiple scanners in Virustotal say it's infected and one sandbox says it has suspicious behaviour.

[Eternal9100]

I tried them all on VT and the windows installer version comes up with a positive on Win Defender and a few others I have never heard of. It may well be worth submitting it as a false positive? I don't use Win Defender on my Win box so I don't know. False +ves come up on GitHub files all the time. The portable windows app, .deb and appimage come up clean. With respect to the double width window on v4.3.1 on windows, this problem went away for me after v4.2.8. Is it worth scrubbing it (also from your profile) and trying the portable version?

I think there is a quality control problem and I hope they can resolve this. I don't know how sustainable it is a free app but if you want ready made cloud synced x plat it is now all there is AFAIK.

[BrianG61UK]

Why do Ente sign their files with an invalid root certificate?
If it's innocent, how does Ente Auth 4.3.1 manage to get Windows Defender into such a state where it just loops over and over saying it's quarantining it, but never actually managing to do anything to it? I had to use Sysinternals Movefile program to get it off my system. There's no way I'm ever actually installing it.

[Eternal9100]

Why do Ente sign their files with an invalid root certificate?

I don't know, but you are correct. Suggest you check the SHA256s as well. It could be a misconfig, it is not proof of Auth being malware. They could to better.

how does Ente Auth 4.3.1 manage to get Windows Defender into such a state where it just loops over and over saying it's quarantining it, but never actually managing to do anything to it?

That's Win Defender. It may be free but...

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/windows-defender-false-positives-loop/710ecbf6-3c7a-4fd2-96c9-1a97fef77196

[BrianG61UK]

I've sent it for analysis at Microsoft. I'll wait and see what they make of it in, going by past experience, a few days time.