OK, either I'm incredibly stupid, or something!
I went to the link provided by Dane for the Eloquence port to O S X. I got
the zip file and opened/unzipped it.
In the readme included, there's a somewhat direct link to download Wine for
OSX, which you'll need to make this work. Don't do it! It'll take you to a
download manager you gotta download, and you have to use Windows to do so,
for one thing as it's an e x e file.
Secondly, once you open it, at least on my end, my Nod32 popped up, and let
me tell you something, this isn't at all against nor meant to flame Dane in
any way, as frankly, in Dane's defense, he may not have known, and may have
been clueless of this fact, so ab, suh, lootly! no blame what so ever! is
going to him regarding this. I mean it! None! So don't even? go there! I
think he posted this with extremely good intentions, but just didn't
probably know. My Nod32 popped up though and there were trogen horses all
over! the dang archive! I mean, had I opened the download manager e x e
file, Nod32 told me that there were about 1 gig's worth of malicious
software that would have been infectively installed. In the longrun, I may
have gotten the Wine dmg, but I would have gotten probably several, if not
many viruses in the process.
I've written Gordon about this off list, in greater detail, but we'll just
say, that download manager you'll be directed to is quite harmful to your
Windows system's health. I totally get this list is not for discussing
Windows matters, and normally, I would have refraned, but this could harm
people's computers! I can't just sit back with a straight poker face and do
nothing/say nothing knowing in my mnind that this could infect many
machines. I'm sorry, but I'm not gonna do that to you all. I'm far from
being a moderator of this list, and I don't pretend to play one either, but
this is serious! I just hope and pray I get this message to you all before
it's too late!
Again, I have no reason to believe that Dane was in the wrong here. I
truely feel he probably didn't know. And if he found a more direct lihnk to
Wine instead of what's in the readme, then I profusely apologize. This
isn't to single him nor call him out publicly. This message is sent with
very good intent. The only reason I'm doing so is to express my warning to
you all that at least from what I can see, I am willing to stand corrected,
but the file looks harmful. I think the Eloquence port itself shouldn't be
harmful in the least, but just be real real careful where you get Wine from
to make it work!
If you all need a safe, non-infected link, give me a bit and I'll have
something on my web site you all can download. Being it's open source, it's
not like I'm violating any terms by putting it in a more logical place, not
to mention, a safer place.
The readme says the link is hard to find the dmg. Excuse me, but, I found
it on Google very! easily. It only took me maybe 2 or 3 minutes, if that.
So, yeah... I just wanted to give you guys a heads up.
Chris.
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