On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 5:55 PM, Frank Mehnert <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 July 2011 16:34:40 Alexey Eromenko wrote:
>> Due to popular user demand, I decided to establish alternative
>> download mirror of 4.1.0: (Windows Setup)
>
> I would be interested to know why there is such demand (I've not seen
> such requests). While it is completely legal to provide VirtualBox
> packages on other websites, there is always the risk that someone
> rebuilt the package and added some malicious code (see the VLC
> example). The MD5SUM / SHA256SUM is ignored by most people.
>

The huge problem with official servers (that happened to me in the
past), is that downloads simply lock-up at n% completed (like 80% or
90%) and never finishes.

It is apparent, that other users experience this very same problem now.

-- 
-Alexey Eromenko "Technologov"

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