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Ladies and gentlemen, you are hereby urged NOT to download binaries from random links on the internet - this specific link may or may not be innocent (I have no

by beagle3 12y ago

Ladies and gentlemen, you are hereby urged NOT to download binaries from random links on the internet - this specific link may or may not be innocent (I have no idea). But how do you know it is not trojaned?

NelsonMinar 12y ago
It's OK, the MD5 sum is 951b878016159eadd8bfca08c3670038. And as we all know from downloading software on the Internet, if a checksum is posted it must be safe.
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- nitrogen 12y ago
  No virus software would ever detect a completely novel trojan without throwing a false positive on everything else. How can we know the library wasn't altered to give remote code execution to a specially crafted image?
- TillE 12y ago
  > If in doubt, use virustotal Virus scanners are based on blacklists and some iffy heuristics. A clean result is not a guarantee of safety. Nearly any custom-built malware will slip by. Windows is a huge pain for compiling software with dependencies, but I don't think MozJPEG has any. There are detailed build instructions for Windows included.
cabirum 12y ago
fine, links deleted. Now everyone has to waste time compiling it.
- NelsonMinar 12y ago
  And compiling and running unexamined source is completely safe. Unlike running a binary.
- beagle3 12y ago
  No offence intended - buy you are in this case, a stranger giving a candy. Some strangers with candy have no sinister intentions, but kids should still avoid them, because of the irreparable harm that those with sinister intentions will cause, all kids should avoid candy from strangers.
  - Retra 12y ago
    Is there even any evidence that any children have ever been hurt by strangers with candy?
    - beagle3 12y ago
      http://lmgtfy.com/?q=lured+with+candy http://lmgtfy.com/?q=lured+with+candy (In some of the results "Police declined to tell", and some describe the same incident, but that's just the first page with the first search term that came to my mind).

by beagle3 12y ago

NelsonMinar 12y ago

It's OK, the MD5 sum is 951b878016159eadd8bfca08c3670038. And as we all know from downloading software on the Internet, if a checksum is posted it must be safe.

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nitrogen 12y ago
No virus software would ever detect a completely novel trojan without throwing a false positive on everything else. How can we know the library wasn't altered to give remote code execution to a specially crafted image?
TillE 12y ago
> If in doubt, use virustotal Virus scanners are based on blacklists and some iffy heuristics. A clean result is not a guarantee of safety. Nearly any custom-built malware will slip by. Windows is a huge pain for compiling software with dependencies, but I don't think MozJPEG has any. There are detailed build instructions for Windows included.

cabirum 12y ago

fine, links deleted. Now everyone has to waste time compiling it.

NelsonMinar 12y ago
And compiling and running unexamined source is completely safe. Unlike running a binary.
beagle3 12y ago
No offence intended - buy you are in this case, a stranger giving a candy. Some strangers with candy have no sinister intentions, but kids should still avoid them, because of the irreparable harm that those with sinister intentions will cause, all kids should avoid candy from strangers.
- Retra 12y ago
  Is there even any evidence that any children have ever been hurt by strangers with candy?
  - beagle3 12y ago
    http://lmgtfy.com/?q=lured+with+candy http://lmgtfy.com/?q=lured+with+candy (In some of the results "Police declined to tell", and some describe the same incident, but that's just the first page with the first search term that came to my mind).