[blender-girl]

Hi

I’m new to bforartists and installing it for the first time.

I notice the installer is a COM file and not EXE like blender.

Why is that?

[BFA-Reiner]

Hi blender-girl,

Many thanks for the question. A *.com file is definitely not from us. We officially offer a zip file and a installer exe for Windows as a download. And also the linux versions does not come with a *.com as an ending. It’s *.tar.gz, *.deb and *.appimage. And mac has *.dmg. May i ask you where you got the *.com version from?

Our setup exe differs from the Blender version. They use an MSI installer, made with a tool called NSIS. While we offer a executable made with another open source tool called Inno Setup. It is simply easier to handle. The result is in both cases that you have a regular Windows installer though. Coming with an uninstaller to remove the software if you not longer need it.

But as told, *.com is definitely not from us. And as also told, i am curious where you found this one. We might need to take action here. Have you virus scanned the file? How big is it? Our official installer is 229 Mb big …

Kind regards

Reiner

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[blender-girl]

I was browsing the website on a Android 12 tablet and for some reason the windows installer link here of the EXE, shows a COM extension on android instead of EXE 🙂

But on windows everything is fine

https://www.bforartists.de/download/

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[BFA-Reiner]

Ah, interesting. You really never stop learning. Many thanks for reporting back. I had the fear that maybe another webpage offers a modified version of our installer, which could be a security issue then. But in this case all is well 🙂

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