t0p
August 24th, 2011, 11:15 AM
Earlier on I started doing a bit of peer-to-peer with Transmission and Planet Bay (https://theplanetbay.org). Since embarkin on this venture (about an hour now) I have got two pop-up windows saying
You have chosen to open
iLividSetupV1.exe
which is a: DOS/Windows executable
from http://download.cdn.ilivid.com
[b]What should Firefox do with this file?[b]
*Open with Archive Manager (default)
*Save File
Of course, being a Linux user, an unasked-for .exe means little to me. But I am a curious soul. So first I tried to browse to that link (http://download.cdn.ilivid.com) and got this 403 message:
ForbiddenYou don't have permission to access / on this server.
Apache Server at download.ilivid.com Port 80
I went to iLivid.com (http://ilivid.com/), and apparently iLivid is a super-duper new download manager, which does pretty much what all download managers do.
The unsolicited pop-up and link therein worries me. If a user uses a Windows OS and is not au fait with the nefarious workings of the internet, he might click on that link. And what would happen? Well, I don't know. It might be innocuous, it might be evil.
On my computer I have Wine and VirtualBox with a virtual XP running on it. Is there any danger if, for instance, I started my virtual XP and opened iLividSetupV1.exe, would I be safe? Or would it be better to keep my curiosity in its box and let my cat live a little longer?
You have chosen to open
iLividSetupV1.exe
which is a: DOS/Windows executable
from http://download.cdn.ilivid.com
[b]What should Firefox do with this file?[b]
*Open with Archive Manager (default)
*Save File
Of course, being a Linux user, an unasked-for .exe means little to me. But I am a curious soul. So first I tried to browse to that link (http://download.cdn.ilivid.com) and got this 403 message:
ForbiddenYou don't have permission to access / on this server.
Apache Server at download.ilivid.com Port 80
I went to iLivid.com (http://ilivid.com/), and apparently iLivid is a super-duper new download manager, which does pretty much what all download managers do.
The unsolicited pop-up and link therein worries me. If a user uses a Windows OS and is not au fait with the nefarious workings of the internet, he might click on that link. And what would happen? Well, I don't know. It might be innocuous, it might be evil.
On my computer I have Wine and VirtualBox with a virtual XP running on it. Is there any danger if, for instance, I started my virtual XP and opened iLividSetupV1.exe, would I be safe? Or would it be better to keep my curiosity in its box and let my cat live a little longer?