TUTORIAL: How to Verify the Integrity of Programs that You Downloaded in the Internet if it is Compromised or Infected with Viruses and Malicious Codes
This tutorial will teach you how to verify MD5 and SHA checksum of a program. This process is one of the most important you have to do before installing any programs that you have downloaded in the internet.
Step 1
Download "MD5 and SHA Checksum Utility" here. It's a standalone program. Open it after downloading.
Step 2
We will use the Ethereum Wallet installer in this tutorial for us to see if it works. Get Ethereum Wallet installer here. It's only a 60mb+ file, download it so that you can try it. Below the download page you will see the "Checksums" portion. Copy the checksum of the file the you have downloaded.
Click "Browse" and find the Ethereum Wallet installer that you downloaded to open it.
Step 3
After opening the Ethereum Wallet installer you should see something like the screenshot below. In the hash portion paste the checksum then click "Verify"
IMPORTANT: Double check the checksum that you copied because it is very often that we copy the wrong checksum.
Step 4
If your download is not compromised then you should see "SHA-256 Hash matched"
That's it. It's done.
You can use the utility everytime you download something in the internet. It's better to be safe than sorry.
Hm, I am not sure about this article afterglow, you send people to a link from cnet and softpedia, those download sites themeslves frequently have viruses, and some guys wordpress site alone is simply not credible enough.
I write about privacy and technology, f you'd like I'd discuss this with you but I at this point have to warn anyone who may see this that it could be directing you to a malcious download of an md5 checksum utility.
Also, in any command line you have access to a built in checksum which you overlooked to mention to any non-windows users. And in general any actual tutorial must be, of course, cross platform.
Also, just the checksum being correct does not necessarily mean that it is absolutely ok, as with the transmission bittorrent client breach last year, there are other ways for viruses to get in and it's not a good idea to give people false security.
Here are my posts, we have to be vigilant.
https://steemit.com/freedom/@mindhawk/privacy-workshop-1
https://steemit.com/surveillance/@mindhawk/privacy-workshop-2-you-have-something-to-hide