Fake Versions

Tweakbl · Postby **Tweakbl** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 10:43 am

Hey,Been using FDM for a couple years.I really like it thank you all for the hard work you put into it.

I would like to state that a similar thing has happened with Shareaza,the Brand name stealing part at least.They currently have a project called Panthera,that is,if the need arises,going to replace Shareaza because of this and the fight with the iMesh and the RIAA.Read some about it here http://www.pantheraproject.net/

Please keep FDM safe from this type of attacks and thanks again!

Guest · Postby **Guest** » Sun Apr 26, 2009 6:02 pm

[quote="Wu Hung"][quote="Anonymous"]well one thing is freedownloadmanager seems to be a pretty generic name. might i suggest changing the name of this project to something more unique? (=[/quote]

yeah and what's next? changing the name from firefox (again) to something "more unique" just because some smart head thinks it could be a good idea to use this well known name to guide more people to their own site.

in case of freedownloadmanager.com it's pretty lame from these reget.com people. is their product really that bad that they need such tricks?

anyway, i guess umbra were talking about real fakes, not copy cats.[/quote][u][/u]

Guest · Postby **Guest** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 9:23 am

Anonymous wrote:well one thing is freedownloadmanager seems to be a pretty generic name. might i suggest changing the name of this project to something more unique? (=

its the best man, no spyware no virus and speeds download to like maxmium. Unlike Download Accelerator Plus (DAP) has spywares on free versions

Guest · Postby **Guest** » Mon May 04, 2009 4:53 pm

Beware of a chinese website which give you a fake free download manager download!

Just got Win32/PariteB by download FreeDownloadManager Modded Install 2.1!

MC707 · Postby **MC707** » Sun May 17, 2009 1:54 pm

Anonymous wrote:well one thing is freedownloadmanager seems to be a pretty generic name. might i suggest changing the name of this project to something more unique? (=

agreed.

neeraj · Postby **neeraj** » Wed May 20, 2009 6:43 pm

I have been using Free Download Manager from last 5 years and I am very much satisfied by its performance.I can say for sure that it quite safe to use.
Excellent work done by the FDM team.........Full marks to them for making my downloads fast and easy.

Guest · Postby **Guest** » Sun May 24, 2009 8:03 pm

how about this?
http://www.freewarefiles.com/Free-Downl ... 13352.html

hapecat® · Postby **hapecat®** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 5:17 pm

An MD5 sum is desperately needed....It would end all confusion!!!

scx · Postby **scx** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 12:31 am

Ok, first of I second the proposal of changing the project name, I understand that this is like asking somebody to change his/her little kid's name but being honest the name is a little generic. The name 'Firefox' is already quite unique, imagine it was called 'Free web browser' instead?

I love the project, and as so I want it to be more widely known and recognized just like Mozilla is, that is the reason I suggest the name change.

and... I also agree to add a self contained sha1sum during install.

Guest · Postby **Guest** » Sat Jun 13, 2009 8:14 pm

www.freedownloadmanager.com is connected with FDM project?

Guest · Postby **Guest** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 12:18 pm

scx wrote:Ok, first of I second the proposal of changing the project name, I understand that this is like asking somebody to change his/her little kid's name but being honest the name is a little generic. The name 'Firefox' is already quite unique, imagine it was called 'Free web browser' instead?

I love the project, and as so I want it to be more widely known and recognized just like Mozilla is, that is the reason I suggest the name change.

and... I also agree to add a self contained sha1sum during install.

I don't have problem with FDM name. with fdm name, at least I know, FDM really free

Guest · Postby **Guest** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 10:07 pm

Anonymous wrote:www.freedownloadmanager.com is connected with FDM project?

Given the http://www.reget.com/en/ url at the bottom of the page, I think not.

suneelkumar85 · Postby **suneelkumar85** » Wed Sep 02, 2009 2:33 pm

yeah and what's next? changing the name from firefox (again) to something "more unique" just because some smart head thinks it could be a good idea to use this well known name to guide more people to their own site.

in case of freedownloadmanager.com it's pretty lame from these reget.com people. is their product really that bad that they need such tricks?

anyway, i guess umbra were talking about real fakes, not copy cats.

HitMe · Postby **HitMe** » Wed Sep 16, 2009 10:40 am

Change the name?
Don't be daft!!
The program has a name and it's a great name.
To bad if it has the word free in it and that is somehow not good to some people...? Why?
anyway as long as people only download it from here or reputable sites like download.com, filehippo or sourceforge then there is no problem.
Having an SHA and other hashes on the page would help but only those who actually know what to do with them!
'FDM' is a great shortened name and is also what this program is known as. I see no problem with that at all.
As for the guy who downloaded a 'modded version' on a chinese site then sorry pal...you were asking for trouble there so you got a virus. You hopefully will have learned from that silliness!

One thing, what is going on here with all these posts from guests just quoting the original post and saying nothing...?
Seems like the forum is filled with redundant posts.

Guest · Postby **Guest** » Thu Dec 31, 2009 2:03 pm

Guest wrote:How's about postimg the CRC, etc. for the download at http://www.freedownloadmanager.org on thje downloads page and here?

Mmm, and how many browsers will download something and then check the CRC matches?
I'm a geek at heart, and I have seen stuff with MD5 hashes next to it, but I am not aware of how to verify such codes. I guess I could Google, but it'd be much easier if this was automated. Firefox? Don't think so. MSIE? I hardly use that anyway... FDM? Can virus check and integrity check, but not aware of an MD5/CRC verification.

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