LIke Monrezz and Muss mentioned , its just a matter of not knowing the person releaseing the program. I see your joined date is Oct. 2002, so Im not too concerned, but for all we know you could be a disgruntled eqemu'r that thought it would be funny to release a trojan horse program to format someones hard drive. Its one thing to write a program, have forums, support, etc, dedicated to a program as opposed to just posting a link on a website saying 'download this, it'll do wonderful things'. I have years and years of very important data stored on my machines, yes I could recover them, but that doesnt mean i want to find out...
Its nothing personal against you, but if I dont know someone, or I dont see something estabilished as a credible project, i wouldnt install it unless i knew it was what it was advertised to be. There are alot of malicious people out there, so you have to be careful sometimes (and I think it is a shame that we do have to be)
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Complaining that her program MIGHT be a virus won't encourage her
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I don't think anyone complained that it might be a virus, I think everyone just commented on the fact that it is considered risky to download exectables from someone you dont know.
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i think malicious people would be malicious enough to give cleaned source files and infected binaries
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If you release the source code, most of us would compile it ourselves, so there would be less concern.
I definitely agree, thank you for the contribution. 3rd party programs are always greatly appreciated.[/quote]