Unauthorized Vivaldi installers – help us find them
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There's a whole heap of downloads for Vivaldi on non-Vivaldi websites. Some obviously legit, but how do we know without downloading and trying them?
Do Vivaldi let third parties offer downloads for their browser?
https://www.google.co.nz/search?&q=download+vivaldi+-site%3Avivaldi.com+-site%3Avivaldi.net&oq=download+vivaldi+-site%3Avivaldi.com+-site%3Avivaldi.net -
I don't even see a reason to dl a browser from ANY other site than the browser's site itself.
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Welcome and congrats Julien!
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Try commandline keys described here http://pastebin.com/Z0wkdeue (first 200 lines)
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www.vivaldi.ru is a digital library network with their own client
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Belgium is arguably the number one beer country in the world, and I happily concur with that sentiment.
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Windows is aiming to get rid of the malware issue with UWP technology (only for Windows 10 I'm afraid). Win32 apps should be very slowly phased out (7-10+ years) for the new container.
Here's why: http://www.infoworld.com/article/3049955/security/microsoft-uwp-boosts-security-for-windows-apps.html
In short:
- UWP apps do NOT use the registry in any way
- UWP apps are sandboxed
- UWP apps have their own package (.appx)
- Addendum: You don't need to use the Windows Store to distribute .appx apps.
I strongly suggest doing some research about it, it's very beneficial for Windows 10+ users.
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Thank you
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That is correct. And I generally think that pretty much anything that anything that you would not want installed on your system can be considered malicious. Antiviruses and other tools do flag those PUP's after all.
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Thanks for telling us. We'll have a look at it for sure.
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Well, actually, I don't drink alcohol at all for a few different reasons, so that excludes more than just beer.
And if that portable installer is just a regular tool that's forthcoming with what it does and doesn't install anything unexpected, then I don't think we're too worried about it.
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Thank you!
And indeed. I've been using FreeBSD for close to 15 years. Mostly for running servers but the last 6 months, I switched over my home desktop computer from Windows 7 to FreeBSD 10.3. I have started contributing on the FreeBSD forum as well, but I haven't had a lot of time for that.
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Thank you!
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The animated gif at the end of the blog post shows you how to check if a file is legit without running it. Basically, if it has our signature, it's safe. We don't mind third parties sharing links to our actual installer but we don't want them to install vivaldi and potentially unwanted programs or other malware as part of the same package.
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Yeah, it's easy to overlook those checkboxes. We'll see if this is something we want to do something about.
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Does this fit your conditions of Vivaldi being packed with unwanted software?
Chip started giving its own download manager behind its promoted download button by default for a few years now. But it usually has a link to the ral executable, too.
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An easy way to check a Windows executable's signature on Linux is to download the Sigcheck command line utility from Microsoft, and run it using Wine. (Not beer, har har.) It seems to work correctly but may not be able to print the file's version information under Wine. I don't know if it works with the FreeBSD port of Wine, though.
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Too bad a MD5 isn't posted.
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Instead of an extension one should be able to do this through the Download Manager. Either right click and "Properties" or right click and "Scan with… " whatever AV is installed as Opera < 15 could do.
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Not sure about the claim to be both a) Belgian and b) non-beer-drinker - but it may explain the move to Norway…
(One of the many likes to Ruario's msg came from me by the way.)