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From: Herb Thymebaum <Herb@GardinersGrove.com>
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Subject: Re: attn: gxs
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On Sat, 13 Aug 2016 00:54:45 GMT, "gxs" <bikini@oll.boom> wrote:
>
>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.
I'm with G. on the EXE files. Many times when you try to download a
file, the page tries to get you to download a 'downloading module', in
the form of an EXE. A downloader should not be needed; whether it's a
malicious file or just a way for a site to get it's proprietary
downloader onto your computer, I don't know. But I'm always skeptical
of any site trying to foist an executable on me when most legitamate
sites offering data files do not. I'd steer clear of any attempt to
download an executable onto your computer. You won't convert an exe
into a ebook document; they're two different things. I'd continue to
Google other sites which may have that (those) books you're looking
for.
www.ebook3000.com has quite a few cooking books. Most are downloadable
through a link to a site called 'longfiles'. No exe nonsense, though
after downloading a book or two, you may be asked to wait 30-60
seconds before downloading additional titles. Only a modest nuisance
(some downloading sites want you to wait an hour or more). Just a
thought on another source of other cooking books.
I'm not familiar with Mac software, but I know there are some e-book
readers for Mac that will open the three most common formats: PDF,
Mobi, and epub. As a Windows user, I prefer SumatraPDF, but that won't
help you on a Mac.
Herb Thymebaum
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