MS software download - wouldn't validate

[Terry Pinnell]

I tried to download some free MS software just now from the MS
Download page. After clicking Continue, to validate, I had to then
download a program called GenuineCheck.exe. When I clicked this in my
download folder I got a message like 'Not supported for this older
browser...' or something along those lines. Yet I am using the very
latest version of Firefox.

FWIW, the download was renamed GenuineCheck(2).exe, because there was
already a file of the same name from September 2005. However, I note
that the older EXE was 402 KB, versus 499 KB for the latest.

I then used the 'Alternative validation' method successfully, but it's
worrying that I should have had to do any of this.

 

[Mike Williams]

I tried to download some free MS software just now from the MS
Download page. After clicking Continue, to validate, I had to then
download a program called GenuineCheck.exe. When I clicked this in my
download folder I got a message like 'Not supported for this older
browser...' or something along those lines. Yet I am using the very
latest version of Firefox.

Firefox doesn't support the ActiveX controls used by Microsoft for
updates and validation.

FWIW, the download was renamed GenuineCheck(2).exe, because there was
already a file of the same name from September 2005. However, I note
that the older EXE was 402 KB, versus 499 KB for the latest.

I then used the 'Alternative validation' method successfully, but it's
worrying that I should have had to do any of this.

It's been necessary for about a year now. The GenuineCheck download is a
paid, I agree.

 

[Mike Cawood, HND BIT]

I tried to download some free MS software just now from the MS
Download page. After clicking Continue, to validate, I had to then
download a program called GenuineCheck.exe. When I clicked this in my
download folder I got a message like 'Not supported for this older
browser...' or something along those lines. Yet I am using the very
latest version of Firefox.

FWIW, the download was renamed GenuineCheck(2).exe, because there was
already a file of the same name from September 2005. However, I note
that the older EXE was 402 KB, versus 499 KB for the latest.

I then used the 'Alternative validation' method successfully, but it's
worrying that I should have had to do any of this.

I would expect Microsoft to require Internet Explorer to be used, after all
you can't expect MS to support third party software.
Regards Mike.

 

[Jon]

I tried to download some free MS software just now from the MS
Download page. After clicking Continue, to validate, I had to then
download a program called GenuineCheck.exe. When I clicked this in my
download folder I got a message like 'Not supported for this older
browser...' or something along those lines. Yet I am using the very
latest version of Firefox.

FWIW, the download was renamed GenuineCheck(2).exe, because there was
already a file of the same name from September 2005. However, I note
that the older EXE was 402 KB, versus 499 KB for the latest.

I then used the 'Alternative validation' method successfully, but it's
worrying that I should have had to do any of this.

..... and even more worrying what the extra 97 kb gets up to

Jon

 

[NoStop]

I would expect Microsoft to require Internet Explorer to be used, after
all you can't expect MS to support third party software.
Regards Mike.

Why can't one expect this? Most Windoze users use mainly third party
software. If Windoze can't support third party software, why even bother
using Windoze?


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