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Brynn Cropp
beware those downloading rufus, someone has paid for the top spot on google with their website "refust.org" instead of the real website "rufus.ie" . This fake page downloads a trojan from a pointer linking it to a discord download instead of rufus.
When doing searches on the internet for downloading previous versions of Windows 10 ISO files, Rufus kept popping up as the go to solution for doing this. But after downloading the latest version (4.1) of it yesterday, the only Windows 10 ISO that it seemed to offer is 22H2, and no prior versions were listed:
Rufus doesn't have their own hosting for those ISO downloads, they always pull it from the official releases download links. Since Microsoft recently decided to remove their official download links for past versions of Windows, Rufus also doesn't have them anymore.
The best way to download now an ISO for Windows 10 21H2 would be to find somewhere online that has the ISO to download (there are links for it all over) and once downloaded verify the file hash that it's indeed the untouched ISO of Windows 10 21H2.
I am currently trying to install linux but i have this issue of syslinux of diff vers. In the iso. For some reason rufus fails to download the files. Is there any way i can download the files manually and place it in the application directory or whatever it is, so i can install my bootable disk? Thank you in advance!
This message means exactly what it says: If you are seeing this, you are missing critical Windows security updates, that are required to be able to access sites like GitHub/AWS (which is where Rufus stores the downloadable content) in SSL mode.
I am using Rufus 3.3.1400 on Windows. It tells me that the menu.c32 is obsolete and it can download the new one for me. After selecting 'yes' the error: 'The server name could not be resolved' appears.
Rufus author here. You will only be asked to download the Syslinux files if they don't already exist. If you used an ISO with the same version of Syslinux, Rufus will not ask you to download them again. In other words, you can safely ignore the part where Rufus asks you to download extra files, if it doesn't prompt you to.
Once again, the unsigned MinGW build of Rufus (which is built in a fully automated fashion from our public source by GitHub actions here and can also be downloaded here) is being flagged by Malware byte as malware (Malware.Heuristic.1003).
I think that's coz a malware does exists by the name of rufus. Its around 300MB. I downloaded it once by mistake while trying to download the real Rufus and got my system infected. Had to wipe my drive and do a clean OS install.
Also, considering that Rufus should be famous to be a very small executable (it's currently a 1.3 MB download), if you are downloading a 300 MB executable, you should be asking yourself some questions...
Ya lol, it was my fault I downloaded the wrong file. I just wrote it. It was my first time downloading rufus when that happened. I had no idea what's it actually size was. I don't spend my time downloading rufus every single day to be familiar with its size lol.
And I'll also tell you, it's a bit concerning that Electron-based software has led to people thinking that downloading an application that is larger than 100 MB to perform one easily describable task (such as creating boot media) is perfectly acceptable... At any rate, the official Rufus homepage tells you that the application is small ("Despite its small size, Rufus provides everything you need"), and also gives you the expected size for the download. So I would again encourage you, when you want to download software, especially software that is available for free, to double check that you are downloading from an official size, and not from a sleazy ad link that is likely to peddle malware...
I was looking for Rufus not just to create a bootable USB drive but to download an older version of Windows10, specifically version 1909 from 2019, which I'm curently using right now. I have no idea if Rufus is electron based or something else based software. Average users are not aware of such details like whats its based on or how large its size is lol. And that malware had its own website. I happened to download it from its own fake website. I tried googling it again to post its link here but can't find it anymore.
How did you download the ISO, direct or as a torrent? Have you checked the properties of the file, is it the gigabytes the download page says it should be (2.4 gb)? Have you checked the MD5 hash? GtkHash works good for that. Have you tried something other than Rufus, like Etcher on Linux or LILI (LinuxLive USB Creator) on Windows? The Firefox Icon is a clue, I don't think Rufus or the others will find it if it is not an ISO. It should look like this "ubuntu-mate-20.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso"
Thanks a lot for the reply.
I downloaded from ubuntu site - Downloads. I guess that qualifies as direct, since there was no mention of torrent there.
I already deleted it, so I don't remember if it had "-mate" after ubuntu. But the rest was what you wrote. Wouldn't the .iso make it an ISO file?!
I have tried only Rufus. Never heard of the others.
The firerfox icon is the clue. I am guessing you had something else in your download folder you hovered over a bit to long and changed the name from .iso to maybe a .deb file? Rufus will only find .iso, so it would not find it if it is a mis-named iso. Again I am guessing, but have had that exact thing happen to myself when downloading.
Don't give up so easily. Just download the iso file again and make sure you check the hash. Pay particular attention to what the download file is named. If all is well then burn it to USB drive. It is not hard, but a lot of people struggle with mistakes on their first try (I did, I didn't know about programs like Rufus and Etcher that EXTRACT the .iso file). See you are already ahead of where I was on the first try! Don't give up so easily, you will find Ubuntu Mate worth it.
It's because you downloaded it wrong. The fact that it had a firefox icon should have told you something, nl you've downloaded the link to the download page, since a file with a firefox icon is mostly a .html or .htm file.
You downloaded the link to the download page because instead of clicking on it, you probably used right-click and "save as" or something. You just have to click on the download link. You don't need a different browser for that.
Sorry for bringing it up, again, but the Support & Help Requests are meant for Ubuntu MATE and the MATE desktop.
Support with main Ubuntu should be asked in Uncategorized or can be asked elsewhere as shown here: -users/20
The topic starter was talking about a iso that they downloaded from the Ubuntu site after all. Not a Ubuntu MATE iso from the Ubuntu MATE site.
I am not sure if he is trying to install just Ubuntu or Ubuntu Mate. Seeing he is here I assumed he found the forum from the Ubuntu Mate site where he tried downloading from. He seems rather the newbie and confused on all the details.
I uninstalled Firefox with the goal that its image doesn't attach to the download anymore.
Then I downloaded Ubuntu 20.04 four times!
Twice from the main Ubuntu site, and twice from ubuntu/mate.
Each time the downloaded file had no image.
Each time Rufus couldn't find it!
Each time, after the Rufus failure, I went directly to the Downloads and tried to open it - because there was no Run prompt.
It was impossible to open it because all options were spurious: programs and applications that were not designed for this - my Brave browser, VLC (video player), and stuff like those.
Couldn't find Rufus anywhere in the list, and tried to copy the downloaded file. When went into the Rufus to paste it there, no Paste was available. Just names of codes and programs that I am not familiar with that and were not mentioned anywhere in the ubuntu tutorials.
My laptop has Windows 10.
Does anyone, anywhere know of problems with downloading while having Windows lately, let's say the last 6 months?
(1) I don't put it past Microsoft to make it impossible going to open code sources, because - for all those who follow the big games of the Reset - it is known that the AI Singularity is a primary goal.
Related to this, I had another remark to make a while back:
(2) There will come the day when the internet will not be accessible to those not toeing the line - whichever that line will be.
Then, Linux and all related products will be of no avail, short of creating a new internet.
Are you checking the md5 hash, or the sha1 hash? You must check the hash after downloading to know if the download went correctly. You may have some kind of Windows virus that is preventing your downloading correctly.
Use a torrent client to download the .iso, faster, so less chance of mistakes and you can verify the download with the torrent client when done downloading. Transmission makes a good torrent client for Windows that can be downloaded for free from Softpedia.
Only download the torrent from the Official Ubuntu Mate site. Once finished downloading the torrent, use Transmission to download the .iso. If you have more than one browser try another browser to download the torrent. If you want standard Ubuntu you need to go to the Ubuntu site, and it will be more like Win8. If you want Ubuntu Mate which is more like WinXP or Win7 then stay here.
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