From e47a58db44552fbff724326485ea3dee7010644e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chick3nman <admin@chick3nman.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2022 12:43:20 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Introduce logic to stop advice message from suggesting
options that do not work in the current attack mode. Fixes #3169
---
src/main.c | 13 ++++++++-----
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/main.c b/src/main.c
index d57e05cf1..7264ac173 100644
--- a/src/main.c
+++ b/src/main.c
@@ -746,12 +746,15 @@ static void main_monitor_performance_hint (MAYBE_UNUSED hashcat_ctx_t *hashcat_c
if (user_options->slow_candidates == false)
{
- event_log_advice (hashcat_ctx, "* Append -S to the commandline.");
- event_log_advice (hashcat_ctx, " This has a drastic speed impact but can be better for specific attacks.");
- event_log_advice (hashcat_ctx, " Typical scenarios are a small wordlist but a large ruleset.");
- event_log_advice (hashcat_ctx, NULL);
+ if ((user_options_extra->wordlist_mode == WL_MODE_FILE) || (user_options_extra->wordlist_mode == WL_MODE_MASK))
+ {
+ event_log_advice (hashcat_ctx, "* Append -S to the commandline.");
+ event_log_advice (hashcat_ctx, " This has a drastic speed impact but can be better for specific attacks.");
+ event_log_advice (hashcat_ctx, " Typical scenarios are a small wordlist but a large ruleset.");
+ event_log_advice (hashcat_ctx, NULL);
+ }
}
-
+
event_log_advice (hashcat_ctx, "* Update your backend API runtime / driver the right way:");
event_log_advice (hashcat_ctx, " https://hashcat.net/faq/wrongdriver");
event_log_advice (hashcat_ctx, NULL);