Comparing file hashes of files that you have downloaded to your computer with those provided by the provider of said downloads can be a great way of verifying that a file is genuine and that it has not been tampered with by third parties. Security only works if the sources you get the files and [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Many users shy away as soon as they hear the words hash or shell extension because of the connotation that the conversation will turn into a highly technical – and geeky – one. The concept itself however is pretty simple that even a inexperienced computer user should understand it. A hash is just a string [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

MD5 (Message-Digest algorithm 5) can be used as a way of checking that a computer file has not been maliciously or accidentally altered. To put it simple, it works like a fingerprint. So, nowadays most of websites includes this information to their software, which looks like this:

Categories: Operating Systems, Tools, Windows