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Posted by on October 9, 2005, 4:51 am
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I'm having problems getting a program to work.
I've found off the internet a helpfile that claims to solve my
problems.
The solution involves activating a registry file and placing a dll file
in a specific directory.
I've virus checked both files... and nothing.
I've looked inside the registry file with notepad, all I can see is
numbers and letters.
I've tried opening the dll file with notepad and all I can see is junk.
(Erm... yes you've guessed it... a newbie when it comes to these
things...!)
Can someone tell me:
- Is it dangerous to install the registry file?
- How can I make sure the dll file isn't a virus?
Thanks.
OM
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Posted by Volker Birk on October 9, 2005, 2:04 pm
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om.newsgroup@gmail.com wrote:
> - Is it dangerous to install the registry file?
Yes.
> - How can I make sure the dll file isn't a virus?
There is no way to ensure this.
But: what are you talking about?
Yours,
VB.
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If class libraries are compared to animals, MFC is the slime-warts toad.
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Posted by Alun Jones on October 9, 2005, 4:03 pm
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> - Is it dangerous to install the registry file?
Anywhere from "possibly" to "definitely".
> - How can I make sure the dll file isn't a virus?
You can't.
So, the question now comes - what do you know about the person or
organisation providing the fix?
Is it a recognised provider of consistently reliable fixes, or a
fly-by-night hackish individual with no reputation?
The best place to get patches, of course, is usually the place where you got
the original software - although with incursions at many public distribution
points in the past, that might not be such a safe assumption.
The worst place to get patches is from random individuals with no
reputation. You have no idea what you're getting into.
As a user with admittedly little knowledge, you need to work purely on the
basis of trust.
Do you have a reason to trust this patch? Have others used it successfully?
Does it even do what it claims to do?
Note that I'm not saying the patch is dangerous - it could be that this is
exactly what you need. There are lots of really nice people on the
Internet - it's just that the really bad people are the ones getting all the
press. Unfortunately, it takes just one bad person to infect your system.
Gauge your level of risk - make up some numbers of how much you trust the
provider, what chance you think there is that the provider might have a
motive to provide you with an unsafe patch, and then compare that against
how useful your software is without the patch, or with the patch.
Alun.
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