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| Jake Day Newbie United States Joined 5030 days ago 30 posts - 35 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 1 of 8 09 June 2012 at 10:02pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've been looking at the FSI website, www.fsi-language-courses.org , and the forums on that site seem to have a lot
of spam. Does anybody know whether the site is still safe to download from? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6380 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes  Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 8 10 June 2012 at 3:58am | IP Logged | ||
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I've never had a problem with it (though its previous incarnation supposedly had a virus problem).
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| Hampie Diglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 6660 days ago 625 posts - 1009 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Latin, German, Mandarin | Message 3 of 8 10 June 2012 at 2:42pm | IP Logged | ||
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PDF's and MP3's as far as I know, cannot contain viruses, it have to be an executable file.
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| jason6 Diglot Newbie United States jasonanders Joined 4939 days ago 6 posts - 22 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 4 of 8 10 June 2012 at 3:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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A pdf can contain a virus. See for example
And a file does not have to be executable to carry a virus. It can use a buffer overflow in the software that is used to view or listen to it to carry out an exploit. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| maydayayday Pentaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5220 days ago 564 posts - 839 votes Speaks: English*, German, Italian, SpanishB2, FrenchB2 Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Polish, Persian, Vietnamese Studies: Urdu | Message 5 of 8 10 June 2012 at 5:48pm | IP Logged | ||
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None of my software - and I have a lot has detected anything on any of the files I had downloaded.
When the OP referred to bugged I had a different concept in mind! 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| learnvietnamese Diglot Groupie Singapore yourvietnamese.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4950 days ago 98 posts - 132 votes Speaks: Vietnamese*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 6 of 8 13 June 2012 at 8:06am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm still downloading pdfs and audios from the site and everything seems okay for me.
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| Hampie Diglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 6660 days ago 625 posts - 1009 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Latin, German, Mandarin | Message 7 of 8 13 June 2012 at 9:36am | IP Logged | ||
Ah, I never ever use Adobe's PDF-reader. But since they allow macros and advanced functionality it is certainly as dangerous as Word files :/... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| eggcluck Senior Member China Joined 4702 days ago 168 posts - 278 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, Japanese | Message 8 of 8 13 June 2012 at 2:17pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well for the Chinese, some of the downloads come as .mp and thus dont work you have to manually change the extension. Also some of the links are broken and I had to download material from elsewhere.
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