Help with installing and setting up John the Ripper.

[GREAT THIEF]

Okay so since I could not find any other threads that can help me. Or a tut. that helps me. I'm asking here.

I have windows and I'm trying to DL this and when it's DL'd and I try to click on the program a black box pops up like the cmd box and just disappears. Can anyone help me plz?

[Palm3R]

If you have AVG, then that's what is blocking it...
either that or it really IS a virus.
Someone suggested I download it, but I didn't because I thought the download had a virus.

[GREAT THIEF]

lol. Just type John the Ripper in google. Its the first one. I didnt have any problems.

...except this one..

[Palm3R]

Yeah, I've seen the program, but never trusted it, because it is possible that it is a virus...

I would test it now, but I don't think WINE will run the program in Linux, and I'm too lazy to download it and see.

[GREAT THIEF]

Wow you must be lazy considering it took me like 10 seconds lol

[Palm3R]

lol, nah... I just don't feel like downloading it just to test it out...

That did happen to me before though. I downloaded some random program to test it out (cuz someone suggested it to me) and I ran it. All it did was execute some command thing which ran a virus and duplicated itself to Hkey_local.
I had to run a Windows restore to an earlier point in time to fix it.

I'm not running Windows though. So chances are, if i had a problem with it, it would be different than yours. also, fixing the problem would (obviously) be very different because of other errors.