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  • 1.  Rapid Release Definition MD5 value does not match real checksum

    Posted Apr 24, 2011 07:12 AM

     

    can anyone explain why the MD5 checksum values shown in the table http://www.symantec.com/business/security_response/definitions/download/detail.jsp?gid=rr

    do not appear to be valid? e.g. I downloaded symrapidreleasedefsv5i32.exe dated 04/24/2011 with the MD5       16B28D10BD72F5ECCD3C2745F8069C9C but using a number of different checksum programs I generate ECB4011CD3EBB7D189F79F710CC415BC

    the file symrapidreleasedefsv5i64.exe with

    MD5  386A795B3C151580D3000F0F2234C7EE generates

             3132C60C5B56D6760453ADBF73366C04

    Thanks

    Wayne



  • 2.  RE: Rapid Release Definition MD5 value does not match real checksum

    Posted Apr 24, 2011 11:16 AM

    but RR files are changing quite fast (about 12 times a day AFAIK). Perhaps you downloaded an "old" file but got a "new" MD5 hash (or vice versa).

    I downloaded an RR file just for couriosity, and MD5 hash matches with the generated one.



  • 3.  RE: Rapid Release Definition MD5 value does not match real checksum

    Posted Apr 24, 2011 12:27 PM

    just tried twice more, the 2nd time the values did match, so it must be as you say

    Thanks

    Wayne 



  • 4.  RE: Rapid Release Definition MD5 value does not match real checksum
    Best Answer

    Posted Apr 25, 2011 06:43 AM

    it would appear that using the link below to pull the 20110424-002-v5i32.exe and 20110424-002-v5i64.exe binaries

    http://www.symantec.com/business/security_response/definitions/download/detail.jsp?gid=n95

    instead provides consistant results every time, all I need do is to wildcard the 20110424-002- values to get the latest files

    Wayne