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Forum Thread: pidgin download from dl.secunia.com
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| rainydayz | pidgin download from dl.secunia.com |
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23rd Mar, 2012 15:40 |
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Ranking: 0 Posts: 2 User Since: 23rd Mar, 2012 System Score: N/A Location: UK |
Using PSI I got a warning that a newer version of pidgin was available. I downloaded this from the PSI interface but nothing was updated. I tried running the downloaded executable but nothing happened, running it from the command-line gave no information. I downloaded the latest pidgin from sourceforge and got a different executable. From dl.secunia.com I got pidgin_2.10.2.exe of size 9456640 bytes, from netcologne.dl.sourceforge.net I got pidgin-2.10.2.exe of size 9290724 bytes. Why a different file from secunia & what's the difference that caused it not to install the correct update (I scanned the Downloads folder with MS Security Essentials which didn't throw up anything, although that's not to say there isn't an issue). This with Secunia PSI 2.0, everything reported as up to date. |
| mrphobophobic | RE: pidgin download from dl.secunia.com | ||||||||
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23rd Mar, 2012 15:59 | ||||||||
| Score: 2 Posts: 2 User Since: 23rd Mar 2012 System Score: N/A Location: US |
I noticed the same thing. Download from dl.secunia.com: Filename: pidgin_2.10.2.exe MD5: F4EE40F51B72905834AF41769F480822 SHA-1: F00BF98F33DF1580ABDBDAE6D692DDD5ACBD27D9 Download from Soundforge: Filename: pidgin-2.10.2.exe MD5: DBA42756A841F7A979172555C834BCAE SHA-1: 60D9C3A21793BF109DB8A99C9D7F67071D83CC12 because of this I don't think I can trust the downloads from Secunia. |
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| mrphobophobic | RE: pidgin download from dl.secunia.com | ||||||||
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23rd Mar, 2012 16:05 | ||||||||
| Score: 2 Posts: 2 User Since: 23rd Mar 2012 System Score: N/A Location: US |
Same thing with the VLC download. download from dl.secunia.com: Filename: vlc2.0.1.exe MD5: A3421691427E7DF89661DCC34DCEDC13 SHA-1: 51413779632CF6F10E971D535E062B01093D7AA9 Download from videolan.org: Filename: vlc-2.0.1-win32.exe MD5: 2E43371C02C0D900BDD63D916500D5EB SHA-1: 505D85D11D95BC2D90FB909CA59CECFF00F33128 Not cool. |
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| Jesant13 | RE: pidgin download from dl.secunia.com | ||||||||
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25th Mar, 2012 01:59 | ||||||||
| Score: -3 Posts: 39 User Since: 10th Sep 2009 System Score: 100% Location: US |
I tried patching OpenOffice.org yesterday before I replaced it with LibreOffice using a file at http://dl.secunia.com/SPS/OOo_3.3.9567.500.exe. I ran it twice, and both times it didn't patch OpenOffice.org. | ||||||||
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| rainydayz | RE: pidgin download from dl.secunia.com | ||||||||
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25th Mar, 2012 19:21 | ||||||||
| Score: 0 Posts: 2 User Since: 23rd Mar 2012 System Score: N/A Location: UK |
I'm guessing secunia are trying to ship some browser plugin or suchlike with the updates. I'm sure there are more than three people having this issue - makes their downloads, and PSI, untrustworthy without a good explanation. |
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| J.Vemmer | RE: pidgin download from dl.secunia.com |
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26th Mar, 2012 08:42 |
| Score: 5 Posts: 17 User Since: 5th Oct 2011 System Score: N/A Location: Copenhagen, DK |
Hi, Secunia is currently deploying SPS packets for many installers, in order to provide you with a silent install feature. Silent install means that you will not see a traditional installer on your screen, the entire patching process will happen in the background. This is also the reason that the files you see, are different from those gotten from the vendor website, though the result is the same. Please make sure to run a full rescan after applying an update, in order to have the correct scanning results displayed. -- Kind regards, Jais Vemmer xSI Signatures Specialist |
