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http://www.evenbalance.com/index.php?page=pbsetup.php

http://websec.evenbalance.com/downloads/linux/pbsetup.run

<code>
chmod 755 pbsetup.run
./pbsetup.run
</code>

Some people have problems running pbsetup (especially Ubuntu users). I don't have this problem but friends of mine. Here is what I have found out:
\\ 
The pbsetup.run was compressed with [[software:upx]].

<code>
file pbsetup.run 
pbsetup.run: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1, statically linked, corrupted section header size
</code>

Let's go and decompress the file:
<code>
upx -d pbsetup.run
</code>

now //file// output looks different:

<code>
file pbsetup.run 
pbsetup.run: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.2.5, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
</code>

There is also a noticeable in filesize (numbers are based on version 2.0 of pbsetup.run):
  * compressed:   2539230 bytes
  * uncompressed: 6435112 bytes

===== Official statement from Even Balance =====

Micah Quinn from //Even Balance// replied to my trouble ticket, here is what he said:
<code>
Hello,

The version of UPX used to compress pbsetup for Linux has a flaw in it. Future
updates of PBSetup for Linux will use a version of UPX that does not have the
flaw.
</code>