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Try almost any Linux distro, including those with Plasma environments, from your browser and without the need to install additional software: https://distrotest.net/index.php?module=systems&submodule=run&id=2299530

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Note!  When I clicked the link in the above post, Malwarebytes (Premium, up-to-date) blocked it as a “compromised” site!  (Windows Defender, updated about 20hr ago said nothing.)

MWB’s definition of “compromised” is legitimate site, but hackers are using it to spread malware, etc.  Not sure how they determine that.

https://blog.malwarebytes.com/glossary/compromised/?lang=en_US&affiliate=&ver=4.5.9.198

I grabbed a screen print of the block.  But I don’t see any means here for an anon to upload a file (.gif).

This happened about 15 minutes before my post here.  I’ll check back in a while.

FYI.

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Same anonymous again.  I ran the distrotest.net link above thru VirusTotal and it came back clean.  (Only Quttera flagged it as “suspicious”.)  So maybe the link is fine and maybe Malwarebytes just threw a false positive.  ??

The distrotest IP is 188.68.47.175, which WHOIS says is in Germany.

Firefox (99.0.1, next to latest) also balked at the site with error SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG which seems to imply a problem with the SSL certificate.  Maybe that is what MWB saw?

I just updated MWB & Window Defender moments ago.  Tried link again – same results.

I have not actually been to the distrotest.net site – I chose not to overwrite the MWB & FF blocks.

Just FYI, that’s all.

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Cybertooth

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No problems using Chrome 102 and Kaspersky. WOT hasn’t flagged the site either.
The same goes for Firefox 91esr.

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The link to one distro I looked into, Pop!, was “http”, not “https” and that set off a warning, as you can see here:

I this likely to be a real issue?

 

 

Ex-Windows user (Win. 98, XP, 7); since mid-2017 using also macOS. Presently on Monterey 12.15 & sometimes running also Linux (Mint).

MacBook Pro circa mid-2015, 15" display, with 16GB 1600 GHz DDR3 RAM, 1 TB SSD, a Haswell architecture Intel CPU with 4 Cores and 8 Threads model i7-4870HQ @ 2.50GHz.
Intel Iris Pro GPU with Built-in Bus, VRAM 1.5 GB, Display 2880 x 1800 Retina, 24-Bit color.
macOS Monterey; browsers: Waterfox "Current", Vivaldi and (now and then) Chrome; security apps. Intego AV

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Edit: found the way to use this site. Sorry

My experience (FF 91.90 esr)

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Anybody:

Never mind that unpromising message and:

(1) Go ahead click on “System List” on the left sidebar. Then click around, in  the list in  drop-down menu that will open where you see the name of the distro you want to try.

Or

(2) You might find instead, after  clicking on “System List”,  that you will have to click on the first letter of the distro’s name, in a bar at the top of the screen. That opens another drop-down menu with a list with all those distros with names that begin in that letter. Then proceed as already explained in (1).

For some reason, last night I found the first way explained above, but today I found the second one instead. Either way, it works.

Except for that warning.

Ex-Windows user (Win. 98, XP, 7); since mid-2017 using also macOS. Presently on Monterey 12.15 & sometimes running also Linux (Mint).

MacBook Pro circa mid-2015, 15" display, with 16GB 1600 GHz DDR3 RAM, 1 TB SSD, a Haswell architecture Intel CPU with 4 Cores and 8 Threads model i7-4870HQ @ 2.50GHz.
Intel Iris Pro GPU with Built-in Bus, VRAM 1.5 GB, Display 2880 x 1800 Retina, 24-Bit color.
macOS Monterey; browsers: Waterfox "Current", Vivaldi and (now and then) Chrome; security apps. Intego AV

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