If I check the certificates of a download and it calls out komodo should I avoid the download?

[G+_Rud Dog]

If I check the certificates of a download and it calls out komodo should I avoid the download? Seem to remember something from Mr Gibson's videos and the komodo certs. Help and old man remember and keep safe.

Would have included a pic but my screen phone capture software doesn't work when that dialog box comes up.

[G+_Ben Reese]

I believe Comodo Antivirus is what Gibson said to stay away from, but it seems like he may have talked about Komodo certs too. In general, I'd say it's probably fine; but that probably depends on the nature of this download too. If the site has a checksum listed (MD5, SHA1, SHA256) than compare that to the file you downloaded. Beyond that, it probably isn't a concern unless it's an executable. Just hard to say though.

 

The risk with the Komodo certs - if I remember correctly - is that they leaked a their private signing cert (unless I'm getting confused with another incident). If that's the case, you can use the certificate fingerprint test at GRC to verify the cert your getting is the same one Steve is getting.

 

https://www.grc.com/fingerprints.htm

 

I hope this helps and doesn't just confuse you more.

[G+_Rud Dog]

Ben Reese no confusion at all appreciate the info. What I was looking for and probably would have been a more informative question was a youtube video downloader. I had one but appears it has disappeared from my PC.

[G+_Ben Reese]

Ah, ok. Padre showed how to download YouTube videos with VLC and I think there is at least one other method using VLC.

 

My favorite tool for that is YouTube-dl. It runs locally, so no need to trust a 3rd party site (I guess the one where you DL this tool from).

 

https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/

[G+_Rud Dog]

Will check it out. The one I used to have and forgot the name had a green arrow next to the video on youtube and pressing it would dowload it.