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On 12-Aug-2016, Fozzy Bear <fozzy.bear@thewoods.org > wrote:
> I saw the post that was looking for fedrmentation and pickling books
> and I tried to d/l this thing from the original place it was posted and
> it came as a .exe file which Avast then flagged as "dangerous" and
> trashed. I was using sneINL which is cool to search with, but I am
> often faced with a .exe file that gets d/l. I'm a Mac user and have
> Parallels installed with Win7 (ick) just so I can access such things
> but it rarely works when the file shows up as an executable.
>
> What's your solution? How do you get them to convert?
Hi Fozzy,
I'd be very VERY skeptical of anything claiming to be an e-book that is an
.exe file, I'd say Avast was correct in deleting the file before it could be
opened.
Do you have a sample I can check?
I just did a quick binsearch for "fermentation" and most of what was posted
is in .zip & .rar formats for a single book, once again I'd be very
skeptical of these too as there's no point in compressing a single e-book,
more likely to be an .exe within there. My exception to this rule is
downloading a large collection from a trusted source such as SNS's excellent
epubXX, eXX and enXX posts.
As for converting, I don't. If I download an e-book it must be in an e-book
format, sure there are a lot of formats out there like .pdf, .epub, .mobi,
.chm etc but I'm good with that. It's possible to convert them all to one
format but I'm not that anal-retentive :) I'm assuming you mean converting
.exe in to .pdf or something, in which case I don't.
But like I said, give me a file name to search for and I'll have a look to
see if it's legit and if so I'll let you know how to convert it into a
common (Mac friendly) format.
cheers,
g.
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