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Fri Feb 16, 2007 10:56 am
Brenda wrote:Mikey,
Thanks for your further explanation - Do you use PTE? If so, can you let me have the website URL?
Thanks Brenda
Fri Feb 16, 2007 10:59 am
Fri Feb 16, 2007 11:33 am
Brenda wrote:Mikey,
Thanks for your further explanation - Do you use PTE? If so, can you let me have the website URL?
Thanks Brenda
Fri Feb 16, 2007 12:02 pm
Fri Feb 16, 2007 6:16 pm
Lin Evans wrote:...There has never been a virus corrupted PicturesToExe slideshow in the many years which thousands have used this program so you can pretty well rest assured that you won't be risking anything by playing one. I've downloaded and played thousands of PicturesToExe executable slideshows for over five years without a single issue of any kind...
Fri Feb 16, 2007 7:30 pm
DickK wrote:Lin Evans wrote:...There has never been a virus corrupted PicturesToExe slideshow in the many years which thousands have used this program so you can pretty well rest assured that you won't be risking anything by playing one. I've downloaded and played thousands of PicturesToExe executable slideshows for over five years without a single issue of any kind...
Warning: As they say for stocks--"past performance is no guarantee of future results".
ANY executable is a risk including one that claims to be a PTE show. The first issue is claims--you're not going to know that it wasn't one until it is too late. The second is that it is very easy for a developer/hacker to modify a PTE executable to still be a slide show but also contain a malware payload.
I'm not saying that downloading from any specific site is a good or a bad thing, but you are trusting the site. Don't trust it just because the site claims the file is a PTE file. If someone ever decides that a PTE show is a cool way to propagate malware, it can be done. Your virus program may catch an infected PTE show but there's a lot of even more dangerous software out there other than viruses and some of those aren't reliably caught by any virus program.
Yes, executables have real advantages--for more than one purpose.
Sun Feb 18, 2007 9:20 pm