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Hello ... i was surfing in the internet ... and look what i found!!!

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/ ... it is cool ... a new free program every day !!!... (a new free paid program) lo0ol

COOL

Looks great thanks for the link

Give away of the day's terms wrote: We will pay the software publisher for the Giveaway license, and our visitors will only receive those after downloading a special verification program and agreeing to the Terms and Conditions, thus protecting software publishers’ interests and making our initiative beneficial for both clients and publishing companies.

hmmm...

Kale wrote:

Give away of the day's terms wrote:and our visitors will only receive those after downloading a special verification program

hmmm...

Yes, hmmm...., I have to wonder exactly what does the verification program send to them and more importantly, what do they do with the data?

I like the idea of free software if its useful, but not at the risk of providing unknown information to unknown parties....

I'll pass, thank you.

As far as I can see it upload 7 bytes, for todays program, and then downloads an encoded string that I found to be the games serial which is saved in the registry. So I can't see anything wrong with this right now.

May 16th 2007: Elprime Media Recovery. A unique program for unexpected circumstances that could occur.

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com

Tipperton wrote:

Kale wrote:

Give away of the day's terms wrote:and our visitors will only receive those after downloading a special verification program

hmmm...

Yes, hmmm...., I have to wonder exactly what does the verification program send to them and more importantly, what do they do with the data?

I like the idea of free software if its useful, but not at the risk of providing unknown information to unknown parties....

I'll pass, thank you.

One of the reasons i never used it.
>As far as I can see it upload 7 bytes
I hope so!

Another reason is that apps can not be reinstalled, if it's lost, it's lost forever.

Edwin Knoppert wrote:Another reason is that apps can not be reinstalled, if it's lost, it's lost forever.

Is it? Can't you record the installation with WISE Package Studio or another packaging tool?!?

I meant without any hacking tools and thus by normal use.

Edwin Knoppert wrote:I meant without any hacking tools and thus by normal use.

Hehe... I don't know if WISE Package Studio is most known as a hacking tool... The license are rather expensive. Maybe Symantec / Altiris could use it as a sell argument?

IMHO re-packaging isn't "hacking". I earn 25% of my living by re-packaging bad software installations so they work on Citrix, Terminal Servers, Rapid Deployment systems and so on...

I got Winrar 3.2 free from here....
They send the key to you after the download!

Free as in beer that is

techjunkie wrote:

Edwin Knoppert wrote:Another reason is that apps can not be reinstalled, if it's lost, it's lost forever.

Is it? Can't you record the installation with WISE Package Studio or another packaging tool?!?

For that I'd use Total Uninstall, it will capture everything the installer does so you can recreate the registry entries, it (Total Uninstall) will even export all the registry changes to a .REG file to make that part easier.

You just then have to backup the files.

If you clean out your temp directory first, it might even be possible to capture the installer itself.

Or use FileMon or ProcMon to see where it is saving the installer.

They also have a companion site for games.

http://game.giveawayoftheday.com/

I can't find any negative comments on this via search engines.

Does this mean that we actually have something "too good to be true" that is true?

Sounds fine and this site as very high traffic according to Alexa.