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Originally Posted by sydmalicious
Please don't install Visual C++ (not sure what that is?) packages and other executables in this day and age. Especially if you aren't confident in the legitimacy of the website you're downloading from.
This is a very bad idea and should be avoided.
I'm sorry your books are being held hostage and I get wanted to have them, but you're risking a lot more than books when you do stuff like this.
Please be vigilant.
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Are you sure that I need to worry that Microsoft is serving up malware with their various Visual C++ Redistributable downloads? I should avoid the links from
Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable latest supported downloads?
I will download a VC++ redistributable package from there when I am installing a program that does not include the redist installer due to worries about package sizes.
I can see worrying about downloads from a random site but making a global statement such as you did is going above and beyond into the realm of pure paranoia.