![]() ![]() I’m OK with that, so I opened it up to try it out (on a scratch SSD which I can destroy and replace whenever I need to). Only McAfee flagged the file, out of the 62 engines that VirusTotal uses for screening. (That’s what happened when I downloaded the Ghacks mirror link, in fact.) All this screams “Look out!” or perhaps “Be careful!” Thus my next move was to submit the ZIP file to VirusTotal for a checkup. Normally, such a small download happens so quickly I don’t even get a download progress tab in Chrome, Firefox or Edge for something of this size. I eventually appealed to Martin Brinkmann at who posted an al ternative download/mirror link at my urging. All four of my download attempts failed with a “Network error.” Using the Network Meter gadget on an otherwise quiescent machine, transfer rates varied from a low of 10 Kbps to a high of 180 kbps - ungodly slow, in other words. ![]() More alarmingly, the ZIP file download never worked for me, even for a paltry 3.1 MB file. Page loads were sometimes quite slow (20-plus seconds for page transitions, longer to bring up the registration page). It took me some time to navigate around, and to register for its forums. The site seems a bit underprovisioned, too. The domain is 119 days old as I write this story, created on, and its authoritative name servers are and. According to, is registered in China through Alibaba Cloud Computing. ![]()
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