Hello, These URL sites are placeholders that direct you to other pages. Clicking on that link brings you to such a placeholder, where someone is making a buck or two off your click. Click the Skip ad button, which will take you to the direct download for Wine. HTH.
Orin [email protected] Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/orinks Skype: orin1112 On Mar 10, 2014, at 11:01 PM, Christopher Gilland <[email protected]> wrote: > 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... 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