A clarification regarding Rapidgator

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By Oliver (AKA the Admin) on 8 comments
in Categories: Just Talking

Several people have reported they’ve seen Rapidgator trying to make them install an .exe file instead of serving them the usual Zip files.

How about a clarification ? ;)

If you’re concerned, look below the usual Download links, there’s a checkbox, about a Rapidgator download  manager. Simply make sure that box isn’t checked, and you’ll get the Zip file :)

I imagine that’s a sort of sponsor offer. Just like when we install an update to Java, and the Java updater provided by Oracle tries, every fucking time, to make us install a toolbar, like the Ask Toolbar. Freaking out about stuff like that is useless, don’t waste your energy on it and just make sure to uncheck the little box.

I’ll throw another piece of advice, if you’re scared to install suspicious stuff, boys and girls, how about using a virtual machine ? There are now EASY virtualization engines for every OS, it’s cool. Me, I’ve got Microsoft Virtual PC on which I installed a good old lightweight WinXP, I configured its virtual hard drive to offer me the option to save, or not, while closing down the program, the changes that were made to the virtual disk during the session. So, I may even install definitely virused stuff, I won’t care, it’s gone in the end. Remember that trick if you deal with potentially nasty stuff like keygens :)
In exchange for the advice, anyone with a valid serial for SyncbackSE 6.3.13.0 will be awesome !

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MojoJojo
MojoJojo
11 years ago

I have noticed this happen twice so far:
When the usual 'captcha' picture shows up, a similar looking screen slides in from the left side replacing it with a link to the '.exe' file.
WTF!? right? Don't worry.
In the top right corner should be a link that says 'Close Advertisement' that goes back to the 'captcha' challenge screen.
Hope this helps.

clu
clu
11 years ago

ive had this happen to me a few times as well, i just cancel the download and reload the screen to get the zip.

i wish i could run virtual pc but it is not available for windows 8 because of the discontinued support of win xp and i don know which would be good to use for win 8.

faloop
faloop
11 years ago

You could use Sandboxie instead of VMs. Saves you some hard drive space and the Windows installation process, and it’s very easy to use

clu
clu
11 years ago
Reply to  faloop

thanks for the tip ill give it a try.

TRGS
TRGS
11 years ago

@clu: maybe “vmware player” is fit for your needs. its a free download

@oliver: the “offline” packages for java have never included any toolbars or something like that.

SL-Gundam
SL-Gundam
11 years ago

@Oliver why would you need syncback? I use freefilesync http://freefilesync.sourceforge.net/ but Synctoy should be able to do the job as well

Oliver AKA The Admin
Admin
11 years ago
Reply to  SL-Gundam

Dunno, because I got used to the program, mostly ? ^^;;

SL-Gundam
SL-Gundam
11 years ago

Well i suggest you try one of the free (and possibly open source) solutions. Some of them are quite good.

As earlier specified i recommend freefilesync (just make sure you don't agree to the installation of adware shit)