Switching to Avangate

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We are excited to announce that we are switching our online payment partner to Avangate. Our customers will appreciate more features including telephone support in many counties, the ability to control the renewal option during check-out as well as the new fresh user interface. Optional Backup CD and Download Insurance Service are now unselected by default.

If you experience any issues during the checkout, please don’t hesitate to contact us. We always value your feedback.

Thank you.

 

EmEditor v14.6.0 beta 17 released!

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Today, we are releasing EmEditor v14.6.0 beta 17.

Updates from v14.6.0 beta 16 include:

  • The Prefer UTF-8 check box was added to the File tab of configuration properties. When this is checked and the Detect UTF-8 check box is also checked, UTF-8 takes precedence if the file can be interpreted both as UTF-8 and the selected encoding. For example, a file contains only ANSI characters (alphabets and numbers), it can be opened without any problems both as UTF-8 and Western European. In this situation, EmEditor opens the file as UTF-8. EmEditor also opens an empty file as UTF-8 if this is checked.
  • Stability improvements.

We would like to find as many bugs as possible before we release the new version. Please try it out now and let us know if you find any bugs.

To download or see changes, please go to the beta forum – EmEditor Professional v14.6.0 beta 17 released!.

Thank you for continue using EmEditor!

Investigation report about the hacking incident

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Yesterday, we received the final investigation report from JPCERT/Coordination Center.

How unauthorized hacking was happened

From the various remained access logs, we could not identify the cause for the unauthorized hacking. We confirmed suspicious accesses (web and ftp) from 203.194.144.#, and we confirmed traces of attack attempts in early August. However, we couldn’t identify how the hacker entered our site just by these traces. There were no successful logins from these IP addresses.

About unauthorized redirects

From the remained access logs, the following 2 accesses were considered unauthorized accesses redirected by the .htaccess that was placed by a hacker.

#.#.#.# - - [18/Aug/2014:05:41:38 -0500] "GET /pub/updates/emed64_updates_ja.txt HTTP/1.1" 200 884 "-" "AdvancedInstaller"
#.#.#.# - - [18/Aug/2014:06:19:04 -0500] "GET /pub/updates/emed64_updates_ja.txt HTTP/1.1" 200 884 "-" "AdvancedInstaller"

These accesses match with the IP addresses written in the .htaccess, the time frame when the incident happened. Also, the number of bytes written in the access log (884) was different from the number of bytes written in the other accesses in the other time frame and other IP addresses.

Usually access logs look like:

#.#.#.# - - [10/Aug/2014:03:45:09 -0500] "GET /pub/updates/emed64_updates_ja.txt HTTP/1.1" 200 855 "-" "AdvancedInstaller"

the number of bytes is 855 for this file, but the above two accesses show the number of bytes as 884 bytes.

The clients who own the above IP addresses were contacted by JPCERT/CC, and found there were no malware infections. The access logs record all accesses including merely update checking without actual installation.

Future measures

In addition to routine updates of WordPress plug-ins and themes, we periodically scan our site for malware, monitor files on the server, access logs, and block suspicious IP addresses. On August 29th, we protected the entire site of emeditor.com with SSL encrypted connections. We are also planning to move our forums to another site or an electronic mailing list for improved security.

The next version of Advanced Installer that we used to make the Update Checker will be able to block update installers without the same digital signature as ours. The future EmEditor versions will restore the Update Checker with improved security.

We apologize for any inconveniences that this situation might have caused you

See also:

Possible malware attack by EmEditor Update Checker

New Filter Bar feature: (EmEditor Professional v14.6.0 beta 11)

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Today, we are releasing EmEditor Professional v14.6.0 beta 11.

Updates from v14.6.0 beta 8 include:

  • Added the new Filter Bar was added. The Filter Bar allows you to view only the lines that include a specified string.
  • The Toggle Filter Toolbar, Set Focus to Filter Toolbar, Close Filter Toolbar commands were added.
  • The Filter Toolbar button was added to the toolbar.
  • CTRL + SHIFT + D was assigned to the Set Focus to Filter Toolbar command by default.
  • Fixed other bugs.

We would like to find as many bugs as possible before we release the new version. Please try it out now and let us know if you find any bugs.

To download or see changes, please go to the beta forum – EmEditor Professional v14.6.0 beta 11 released! (New Feature: Filter Bar).

Thank you for continue using EmEditor!

EmEditor Professional v14.6.0 beta 8 released!

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Today, we are releasing EmEditor Professional v14.6.0 beta 8.

Updates from v14.6.0 beta 4 include:

  • In the Selection Only check box was added to the Find dialog box in addition to the Replace dialog box. This allows you to search for a string within a certain column in a CSV file.
  • The Sort by Multiple Columns command was added.
  • Pressing CTRL + A twice selects the whole document. Pressing CTRL + HOME twice moves to the left edge on the top line.
  • Improved double/triple-clicking behavior on the ruler/headings.
  • Improved stability.

We would like to find as many bugs as possible before we release the new version. Please try it out now and let us know if you find any bugs.

To download or see changes, please go to the beta forum – EmEditor Professional v14.6.0 beta 8 released!.

Thank you for continue using EmEditor!

EmEditor Professional v14.6.0 beta 4 released!

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Today, we are releasing EmEditor Professional v14.6.0 beta 4.

Updates from v14.6.0 beta 1 include:

  • The “Sort by Multiple Columns” command was added.
  • The “Drag separators only in headings and the ruler with the mouse” and “Read only in headings” check boxes were added to the CSV tab of the Customize dialog box.
  • The “Read Only in Headings” command was added to the Heading popup menu.
  • “Headings” was added to the list in the Display tab of configuration properties.
  • The Remove Unnecessary Double-Quotes command was added.
  • The Max lines to detect and Min delimiters to detect check boxes were added to the CSV tab of the Customize dialog box.
  • The Adjust Separator Position command was separated into the Adjust Separator Position (Whole Document) command and the Adjust Separator Position (Visible Lines Only) command.
  • Pressing CTRL + A twice selects the whole document. Pressing CTRL + HOME twice moves to the left edge on the top line.

We would like to find as many bugs as possible before we release the new version. Please try it out now and let us know if you find any bugs.

To download or see changes, please go to the beta forum – EmEditor Professional v14.6.0 beta 4 released!.

Thank you for continue using EmEditor!

EmEditor Professional v14.6.0 beta 1

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Today, we are releasing EmEditor Professional v14.6.0 beta 1.

We used to use terminology “Separated Values” or “CSV/DSV/TSV”, but we will start calling all separated values by any delimiters as “CSV”.

Updates from v14.5.4 include:

  • The CSV/Sort toolbar was added. Following commands can be executed against all documents in the current group by clicking the button while pressing the SHIFT key — Normal Mode, all “CSV” commands, all “Convert to” commands, Fixed Width Columns, all “Sort” commands, Delete Duplicate Lines, Heading 0 – 4, Adjust Separator Positions, Automatically Add Separators, and Remove All Separators.
  • The CSV tab was added to the Customize dialog box. You can add or edit CSV formats here. Currently you can define up to 8 CSV formats. As a delimiter, you can specify up to 39 character long string. The “Allow delimiters in double quotes” check box, the “Allow new lines in double quotes” check box and the Heading text box were added.
  • The CSV files to detect list box was added to the File tab of configuration properties.
  • The Extract All button was added to the Find dialog box. Pressing the “Extract All” button will extract lines containing the searched string to a new document.

We would like to find as many bugs as possible before we release the new version. Please try it out now and let us know if you find any bugs.

To download or see changes, please go to the beta forum – EmEditor Professional v14.6.0 beta 1 released!.

Thank you for continue using EmEditor!

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EmEditor v14.5.4 released!

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In response to the hacking incident on the other day, we decided to disable the update checker until we can confirm the safety of our server and the Update Checker. We strongly recommend this update to all EmEditor users.

For safety of customers, we removed update configuration files in our server. Therefore the Update Checker on older versions of EmEditor will not be available anymore. If you try to check updates from older versions, you will see the prompt message: “Invalid or missing updates configuration file. …”. This is not a bug. Please download and update to the newest version of EmEditor by clicking here.

Updates from v14.5.3 include:

Features Removed

  • The Update Checker features were disabled. The Check for Updates and Customize Update Checker commands were removed or disabled.

Enhancements

Bug Fixes

Please see EmEditor v14 New Features.

Download EmEditor v14 Now.

Thank you for using EmEditor.

See also

Possible malware attack by EmEditor Update Checker

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Dear EmEditor user,

We have found malicious files were placed in a subfolder of the EmEditor website, and we estimate these files were placed by a hacker between 6:36 am and 11:20 am on August 18th in the Pacific Daylight Time (USA and Canada), or between 1:36 pm and 6:20 pm on August 18th in the UTC. If a user uses EmEditor Update Checker from one of certain IP addresses, a malicious program, not EmEditor, might have been installed. The IP addresses are:

For the following list, * represents any number between 0 and 255. All 256 numbers between 0 and 255 are IP addresses in question.

12.44.85.*
12.189.27.*
12.233.153.*
42.147.69.*
49.101.250.*
61.211.224.*
63.119.133.*
64.102.249.*
64.235.145.*
64.235.151.*
66.129.241.*
77.248.69.*
86.111.221.*
106.139.26.*
106.188.131.*
114.160.192.*
118.103.17.*
118.238.0.*
124.248.207.*
133.6.1.*
133.6.91.*
133.6.94.*
133.56.0.*
133.74.211.*
133.173.2.*
150.26.82.*
173.36.196.*
173.38.209.*
182.162.60.*
188.111.86.*
194.98.194.*
198.135.0.*
199.167.55.*
203.104.128.*
203.180.164.*
204.15.64.*
209.97.118.*
210.17.188.*
210.172.128.*
210.174.36.*
210.224.179.*
216.228.150.*
219.195.174.*

For the following list, # represents a number between 0 and 255, but only one number represents the IP address in question. To protect users’ privacy, the actual IP address is hidden by #. If your IP address is included in this list, please contact us at jp@emurasoft.com with your IP address, and we will let you know your IP address is included.

12.234.38.#
61.202.251.#
101.110.12.#
101.110.14.#
101.110.15.#
101.111.185.#
108.28.100.#
117.103.185.#
118.159.230.#
118.159.235.#
124.85.138.#
126.205.203.#
133.6.76.#
153.163.255.#
180.0.96.#
180.6.227.#
202.7.107.#
202.62.253.#
206.13.28.#
210.148.24.#
210.164.30.# (2 IP addresses)
210.169.198.#
210.175.75.#
210.233.113.#
210.237.143.#
211.7.234.#

If your IP address is included in any of the above lists, and if you use the Update Checker of EmEditor during the above time frame, there is a possibility that your computer might have been infected by a virus. If so, please use anti-virus software to clean your computer.

To check your IP address, please go to www.google.com, enter “My IP”.

Currently, our server hosting company is scanning the whole website. As soon as the scan is completed, we plan to resolve the issue completely by all means.

We will keep you informed of our progress. If we cannot get access to our website, we might use Twitter, Google+, or Facebook to make announcements.

We apologize for any inconveniences that this situation might have caused you.

 

Website scans were completed and all websites are clean

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Our website scans were completed, and all our websites were clean, including all of our foreign language EmEditor websites as well as Emurasoft Customer Center. This means this English website was not affected by this case.

Nevertheless, as a precaution, we recommend changing your password if you have an account in one of our sites, and please do not share the same password with Emurasoft Customer Center or any other websites.

To prevent future hacker attacks, we have tightened our security level. We no longer accept new members automatically. If you are not a member yet, and if you would like to join our forums, please contact us.

Once again, we apologize for any inconveniences.

Thank you for using EmEditor!