ACHI IR6500 BGA rework station - virus on CD? - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: sicco
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: February 11, 2022, 07:50:24 am
content: Bought a unit from a EU distributor on eBay, it comes with a USB port for configuring thermal profiles etc. There’s a CD in the box with software. A USB driver, some instruction videos and a setup.exe. I found an old PC with still a CD/DVD drive and copied the CD to a USB stick.My McAffee virus scanner says that setup.exe is a virus.Now what?On the Bejing Technician Technology websitewww.easyBGA.com, there are pdf manuals for download, but the software & drivers support page is all empty…A google search for part number and virus gives some hints (from Germany) where the suggestion is basically this: various virus scanners detect setup.exe is a virus, but hey, those scanners are paranoid, so relax, find an old pc with nothing important on it, detached from internet, and then simply install and use this software. Because that “virus” is at most some over enthusiastic internet user support / usage statistics feature…I’m not so sure.This does ring all those red flags about Chinese cyber attackers spreading trojans etc.Is it?

author: tielko
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: February 23, 2022, 06:34:42 pm
content: Hello, I didn't have a CD at allI found another version. Or try the PSoft. Not bad either.

author: ANTALIFE
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 23, 2022, 10:54:59 pm
content: Probably ;^)https://www.rmcybernetics.com/general/zhengbang-zb3245tss-pick-place-machine

author: davebb
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 02, 2022, 12:46:55 pm
content: Hi How are you getting on with the IR6500Does it work well, as i am thinking of getting one,Thanks Dave 2E0DMB

author: sicco
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: July 02, 2022, 01:41:12 pm
content: It works. But also i removed the glass for the bottom heater.

author: davebb
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 02, 2022, 01:57:01 pm
content: Hi Thanks for getting back to me, i did see that some have removed the glass , on youtube,so was it not good with the glass in place,did the unit ever let you down?Thanks Dave

author: sicco
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: July 02, 2022, 02:17:08 pm
content: It did not really let me down yet.The software user interface is still all-Chinese. You need to guess your way on what the buttons do and how you edit a curve. I often need to unplug USB and restart the PC program after the unit did a power cycle.One day i was attempting to re-ball a BGA. And forgot to position the thermocouple nearby the balls stencil. That was my mistake. Also i should not have walked away while it did its cycle… It took a week until the room no longer smelled burned epoxy.It’s CE marked, but I don’t think I would dare putting a CE mark on a unit like this if i would sell these.But it works and was not too expensive. Good for hobbyists.

author: davebb
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 02, 2022, 02:37:44 pm
content: Hi thanks for the info, There is one near by me that looks like new, pick up only For £260 ,i am just waiting on a bank cheque to clear i paid it in to lloyds bank using there auto atm, i did this in the morning andjust found out this does not count until Monday, will be clear Tuesday,so i should get it then,can i ask you for some tips and info , when i get it all set up,Thanks Dave

author: mariush
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 02, 2022, 02:43:26 pm
content: You could install Windows on a virtual machine, for example using Virtualbox, and run the setup inside the virtual machine ... and see what the setup does.If you want to be even thorough, there's freeware and shareware tools that can monitor what an application does, and tell you what setup.exe did when it finishes.Or, there's tools that can make a snapshot of everything (registry, file system, file hashes, last modified time for each file etc ) and then do another snapshot once the setup is done and compare and tell you what changed.But my guess is that the setup will just extract some application and a driver and then request administrator mode to install the driver ... and that probably upset some antivirus programs.You could try to run setup in that virtual machine and while that setup is open, quickly look in temporary folders (c:\ users \ your username \ local settings \ temp , something like that) or c:\windows\temp etc etc and quickly copy the files extracted by setup.exe somewhere else.You can run the setup through the website virustotal as well .

author: davebb
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 02, 2022, 02:46:53 pm
content: Hi yes i can not believe that all of these kind of rework units use the small mic like connectors for main voltage for the top heaters,Thanks Dave

author: davebb
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 05, 2022, 04:17:51 pm
content: I have now got the IR6500 V1What i do find bad is the duel mains MCB on the back is 20AMPS ,i measured about 6-7 ampsthe iec lead/socket is 10 amps,I think i should change this mcb to a 10amp,Thanks Dave

author: wraper
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: July 05, 2022, 04:26:24 pm
content: Upload suspicious file tohttps://www.virustotal.com/to check by multiple antiviruses. False positives are not that rare, especially if software is not that common. Not to say McAffee is garbage which is almost as bad as virus by itself.