alt Hacker NewsThis is great! But, it feels like it's only a matter of time before it changes ownership and everything is re-bundled with malware. It sucks that I can't get old downloads but it would be nice if they came from official sources. I don't have a solution. But looking for old drivers etc, mostly leads to bad sources.
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mook • today at 12:34 AM
Shouldn't the files be signed by Microsoft, with a timestamp signature? That should (barring somebody locating a relevant private key) still mark them as not having been modified.
Of course, how many people would know to check for the signature (especially in the case the site went malicious and therefore wouldn't tell you to do so) would be a different question…
Legacy Update has been well-supported for over 3 years and takes donations via Github (11 current, 61 past sponsors) and Patreon (where you can sponsor up to $80 to fuel Adam's 3D printing addiction). I recommend it to our PortableApps.com users who are on older operating systems and use it in my virtual machines for testing our releases. I'm hopeful it'll stay as is for a while.