G+_Daniel Casciato Posted November 9, 2017 Share Posted November 9, 2017 Looking for a safe win 10 checksum program recommendation. As you can imagine concerned about malware :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Brian Moses Posted November 9, 2017 Share Posted November 9, 2017 microsoft.com - Microsoft ® File Checksum Integrity Verifier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ben Reese Posted November 9, 2017 Share Posted November 9, 2017 7-zip has one built into the context menu. PowerShell has one available too: Get-FileHash Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_David Wiggins Posted November 10, 2017 Share Posted November 10, 2017 Ben Reese? Is spot on. I think WinSCP has it as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Daniel Casciato Posted November 10, 2017 Author Share Posted November 10, 2017 Thanks for the suggestions. Ben Reese - I did not realize that 7-zip did this. Now something strange. I downloaded and Android OTA from Google and verified the checksum. Extracted the file and installed, all is good. Not today after installing 7-Zip the checksum is different. 7-zip matches the checksum used yesterday on the same file and both are different than the original checksum. Any idea why this might be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ben Reese Posted November 10, 2017 Share Posted November 10, 2017 Only reason the checksum would change is if the file changed somehow. Make sure you're comparing the same checksum algorithms (md5 to md5, sha1 to sha1, etc). And make sure you're not comparing the compressed file to the uncompressed file. Other than that, I'm not sure. NSA/CIA/FBI is after you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Daniel Casciato Posted November 10, 2017 Author Share Posted November 10, 2017 One never knows :) - hope there is not malware lurking, that is the scary part. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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