Hi Murphy,

When you download patches/files you cannot really know whether your downloads are corrupt unless you check them against known file versions.

MD5 is a simple little utility that scans a file of any size and produces an "MD5 checksum" that is like a fingerprint of the file. The idea is that the people who release the files for download also run MD5 over the files, and they display these fingerprints for each file.

Then you, as the user, download the files. Your only way of checking that you got the correct files is to run MD5 over them and compare the fingerprints you get with the ones published by the developers. If the fingerprints match, then you can be sure you have the exact same files as the developers released.

You can download an MD5 checker here. Just install it and point it at one of your HSFX install files. It will spit out the checksum (fingerprint) and you can compare it with the checksums listed on Prof's page. That's how you check your downloads.

Cheers,
4S

....NOW you're talking my language Shades...lol...the 'AFIS' system, I'm very familiar with.

That makes a whole lot of sense. I was never told about that, this is a good day. And I appreciate very much what you've just given me. Security is a valuable thing, even in this 'cyber' world. Maybe it will eventually be more elusive than the security problems we have in real life, as they both become one.

Wow...only 100kbs...kinda reminds me of the 'IrFan Viewer' (391kbs), which I just loaded onto my new Win7 build last night, and it 'still' works better than anything I can find.
Thanks for the time sir.
And kudos to the guy who wrote the proge, and put it up for use
Even Osram would be proud, maybe even smile.

Appreciate the time. Sure made me smile.

Murphy.