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PostPosted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 7:42 am    Post subject: blog: safer downloads with virustotal Reply with quote

here's the comment area for today's blog post found at
http://zabkat.com/blog/03Jan10-virustotal-hash.htm
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 11:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

But be aware of false positives. Some things (like Keygens  lol ) are regularly detected as Trojans or something.
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 12:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hashtab is a very useful shell extension, but the author forces you to accept a very unorthodox and controversial license agreement before it will install !
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 2:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

he is obviously out for a giggle on this Smile
his website is also flagged red by siteadvisor but only because of an outgoing link, it won my confidence despite this
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 5:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

nikos wrote:
he is obviously out for a giggle on this Smile

Probably the email domain of @beeblebrox.org gave it away.
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 2:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

HashCheck is far, far better than HashTab.

My post on the Ars OpenForum sums up why.

Edit: Linkify things.
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 2:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

None of your pro arguments have any advantages for the procedure mentioned in the blog article.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 7:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

i stumbled on this from the virustotal guys themselves, virustotal updater
http://www.virustotal.com/metodos.html
context menu extension that checks the hash first then uploads if necessary
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