Unauthorized Vivaldi installers – help us find them
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good.
Of course if Vivaldi would offer portable installation there would be no need for a third party to do so.(hint hint)
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The suggested workaround above all are good but they're only good for mediocre~advance user.
No doubt the problem will hit lower or casual user more hard, isn't it? And any computer veteran here know, that will cause a really bad domino effects.
Honestly, for these guys, the easiest solution is to just get Vivaldi from main site (for Windows) or Mac market(?)… period. -
I'm also a fan of UWP for reasons cited. I understand why the Vivaldi team would naturally want to program for Win32 at this stage, but I would be thrilled to see a modern Windows version eventually.
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most of these installers are wrappers over original installer. they install their own stuff then starts install of original software (sometimes they ask for install path and other stuff too if wrapped installer has option for silent install which will install to given path without showing itself).
sometimes of course installers are not wrappers - they unpack vivaldi files and pack them inside own installer
both way there will be no chance to add hash checking - in first case it will match the original, in second there will bo no check at all
modifying original installer would be the least efficient way to do such thing
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The thing with VirusTotal though is that it combines the results of 50+ or so AV scanners at once, with advanced insight into the actual package contents.
Or even before downloading anything you don't trust, you can just paste a link!
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sha1 would be better.
md5 is very cheap to calculate and iirc there is an easy way to generate a (binary) string with given hash when md5-ed
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Question: Isn't sha1 not considered secure anymore?
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What irks me are there are some good programs that don't support their own download sites.Few but through the years I've found some
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Vivaldi in enterprise environment? A bit too early I'd say. And Chocolatey (better: the packages) is actually to unreliable for an enterprise environment.
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