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Why would you use a "Free Download Manager" when wget is right there? Or a web browser, such as Firefox? Or torrent clients to deal with large Linux ISO downloa
by DiabloD3 3y ago
Why would you use a "Free Download Manager" when wget is right there? Or a web browser, such as Firefox? Or torrent clients to deal with large Linux ISO downloads? Or the various storefronts, like Steam? Or your own distro's package manager?
This wasn't packaged on any distro, so this isn't even a meaningful attack: Users had to go out of their way to install it from a foreign source. This is no different than if you downloaded a random .exe and ran it on Windows with admin access.
Its not a supply chain attack, its a PEBKAC attack.
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- ryandrake 3y agoFrom their website[1]: > FDM can boost all your downloads up to 10 times, process media files of various popular formats, drag&drop URLs right from a web browser as well as simultaneously download multiple files! No, I still don't a clue what it actually does that the OS and existing tools can't. It sounds like those scam "RAM doubler" programs from the 90s. Run this executable to boost your system's chakras. 1: https://www.freedownloadmanager.org https://www.freedownloadmanager.org
- _joel 3y agoSounds like, er, download managers from the 90's a la https://getright.com/ https://getright.com/
- jmprspret 3y agoIt might just parallelize multiple downloads or something like that?
- therein 3y agoI like axel for that. https://github.com/axel-download-accelerator/axel https://github.com/axel-download-accelerator/axel
- genter 3y agoI used it 15 years ago, back when I had dial up. It was extremely handy, since it could continue a download if I paused it or got kicked off (without starting from the beginning).