NZB & Password Protected Rar's driving me nuts

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Nickd

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Hi All,

Using CP + SAB.
Often enough to annoy me, getting rar downloads which are password protected - of course there is a readme.txt included which points to a website which you have to go to and sign up for mobile content services in order to get the rar password.
Has anyone had any luck with:

Brute force-ing the rar password? (seems like a waste of time to me)
Some method of getting the password and not having to sign up for the mobile content services? (I've heard of using a VPN service to get a US IP and you get a survey instead??)

incredibly frustrating and there doesnt seem to be a way to determine if the rar will have a password before you download it!!

thanks
 
Be more selective with your searches. In CP tell it to prefer certain releases (Settings -> Searcher -> Categories), you can also tell it to ignore certain releases that you know give issues so it doesn't download them in the first place.
 
If you go this route you are a fool.
Those links to "sites" are a route for them to get malware on your PC
 
SAB has an auto extract for password files. was a thread here last week. if you searched before you made a thread you would have had all the answers.
 
DrJohnZoidberg said:
Be more selective with your searches. In CP tell it to prefer certain releases (Settings -> Searcher -> Categories), you can also tell it to ignore certain releases that you know give issues so it doesn't download them in the first place.
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I've got some pretty specific search criteria, whomever is releasing the rar's seem to mimic any release group so its impossible to weed them out it seems.
 
I was having issues.

I now only use my own trusted search providers and none supplied by CP.

Zero issues since.
 
akescpt said:
SAB has an auto extract for password files. was a thread here last week. if you searched before you made a thread you would have had all the answers.
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There's always one....

I dont want an auto extract.
I want to know what to do for my specific situation.
I searched and viewed that thread already and didnt quite find what I was looking for.
 
If you have an Anti-Virus program like Kaspersky it will be able to detect and notify you as soon as the first Rar part is downloaded.

The only downside to this is Kaspersky. :(
 
I only download from NZBsa and every password protected file comes with an nfo that has the password which is generally always the same anyway.
 
akescpt said:
SAB has an auto extract for password files. was a thread here last week. if you searched before you made a thread you would have had all the answers.
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Thanks.
 
Nickd said:
For what? His post was of absolutely no help whatsoever...
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Because it helped me even if it didn't help you. There have been a lot of password protected archives recently and 9/10 times the password was the same. The method I had been using was laborious and this simplifies things greatly.
 
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