well he could have let us known how he managed to use a bad link.
Would have been nice to screen shot the bad link so people know to not use it.
Did he do a google search to get the bad link?
That could be partially useful, but still, not useful enough for an exclusive thread IMHO.
And as I already said/asked, why would anyone download any software that is not from official developer's website and expect it to be legit?
I can only guess and he did not tell us how.
Maybe there is a deceptive link that tricked him.
Been a long time since I have been tricked, but it does happen.
I am curious as to how he managed to fuck up.
At op Do you use just one pc?
if you mine you should have a few cheap ones for downloading software just in case you load garbage.
I have like 3 or 4 of these.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Lenovo-ThinkCentre-M83-Tiny-Desktop-i5-4570T-4GB-500GB-HDD-Win-10/174410124664?just swap the hdd for an ssd and it is decent for mining. and if you get bad software you can wipe the ssd.