On 2 February 2018 at 22:16, Wayne S via cctech <cct...@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Notice: Downloaded this from the link and Norton says it is a virus. > PUA.InstallCore
Please bottom-quote on mailing lists. Are you running an ad-blocker? If not, you should. I recommend UBlock Origin. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock AdBlock+ works but takes a lot of RAM. UBlock is a dodgy fork of the original program and should be avoided. I am wondering if you are using bad/fake download sites that are serving compromised files. I used to work in support for AVG a couple of years ago and this was a common problem -- banner ads with bigger, more prominent "click here to download" buttons than the _actual_ download button on otherwise-reputable sites. I have seen this issue with several 100% legit freeware tools, including on Google itself. I told someone to download Produkey, a free tool that extracts product IDs and licence keys from Windows. The person I was advising -- a moderately tech-literate personal friend of high intelligence -- does not run an ad-blocker and was missing the _actual_ Google result and clicking on a banner ad by mistake which was taking him to a fake download site which contained malware and requested payment. CD Burner XP and ImgBurn are both legit. I used both for many years. I no longer use Windows unless someone pays me to do so, but both were valid tools. The download site for CD Burner XP is here: https://cdburnerxp.se/en/home ImgBurn is also legit. The download site is here: http://www.imgburn.com/ Win10 obsoletes them both by including ISO burning directly, IIRC, but it's entirely possible that it can't handle a non-standard CD image that doesn't contain an ISO9660 filesystem. Recently I have had problems trying to "burn" bootable drives containing AROS and A2/Bluebottle to USB because no burn tool recognises those OSes' filesystems. For writing Windows 10 itself to USB, I use Rufus, but I don't think it supports optical media. -- Liam Proven • Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • Google Mail/Hangouts/Plus: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/Flickr: lproven • Skype/LinkedIn: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 • ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053
