Yes, I interacted with Frank (electronically) many years ago, and he has medical problems that result in his lashing out. It is clear that it still happens from time to time, perhaps with less frequency, but not with much less intensity, so I fully understand your position. But that was not my direct concern. I just wanted to know if folks used it and were content with the results after turning off the safety software. I worry about opening up a PC to attacks, enough so that while a friend was willing to download the software onto her PC so I could try it, I told her not to because her PhD thesis in the making is on that machine. I know that Frank is more than smart enough to include mal-ware in his programs if he wished to, but I don't think that he did so. I just worry about leaving doors open for others.
Most of my concerns are based on the fact that I am a Mac guy who sometimes buys a PC for a particular piece of Go software like this one, and every time so far the PC is attacked in short order. Again, my concern is that I turn off features of virus protection software and leave a hole that can be exploited. Cheers, David On 31, Jan 2011, at 6:47 PM, Jeff Nowakowski wrote: > On 01/31/2011 09:12 PM, David Doshay wrote: >> Does anyone on this list use this software? >> Its use requires disabling anti-virus software. > > The author of that software has made violent threats to members of the Go > community. Whether it will harm your computer or not for me is besides the > point -- I would not use it or endorse it even if it was perfectly safe. > > But anyways, these days you can run software you don't trust inside a virtual > machine. > > _______________________________________________ > Computer-go mailing list > [email protected] > http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
