To a large extent I share your concerns about sourceforge. However I think article to which you linked is overstating the issue. The concerns that were mentioned on the Gimp page relate to Advertisements on Sourceforge, not to malware in downloads. So far as I'm aware, sourceforge never has made any warranty about this - you have to decide whether to trust the person who uploaded the softare in the first place.
But yeah, SF is becoming a more and more annoying site to deal with. (Harry, is it time to consider another option?) But Sandy, I am rather confused by the position you take. You don't trust sourceforge, but you do trust Windows! Windows is known to have DRM, spyware and back doors which allow others to install/delete software without your permission or knowledge. See https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/malware-microsoft.html For this reason, (as well as technical reasons) we do not recommend running PSPP on Windows (but we try to help people who choose to do so). If you want the best chance to run PSPP in a secure, trusted environment, install GNU/Linux and run PSPP on that. J' On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 09:45:31PM +0100, SAR&BAWS wrote: I hope I am e-mailing/posting to the correct address for the pspp users list which I got from http://pspp.awardspace.com/ I also hope that I am phrasing this request correctly as am not familiar with the etiquette. Appologies if I get anything wrong. I would very much like to try out a copy of pspp to run on a windows 7, 64 bit box . It sounds to be a really useful package. I found the downloads page at http://pspp.awardspace.com/ but could only see links to sourceforge. Given recent concerns about malware/adware being bundled with downloads from sourceforge, I did not feel comfortable/safe with downloading a copy from there. (for example GNU's GIMP no longer uses sourceforge for the installers http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/08/gimp_dumps_sourceforge_over_dodgy_ads_and_installer/, and comments on wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SourceForge seem to indicate that, sadly, sourceforge is no longer trustworthy repository) . Are there any download sites for pspp (windows 7 64bit or 32bit ) [other than sourceforge], which do not risk the installers having malware/adware bundled with them? Unfortunately I do not have the experience/confidence/software to build an installer for windows from the source code. Advice would be most welcome. Many thanks in anticipation, Sandy _______________________________________________ Pspp-users mailing list Pspp-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users -- PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3 fingerprint = 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 See http://sks-keyservers.net or any PGP keyserver for public key.
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