Verify Checksum Of A Downloaded File

Introduction

These days, we download a lot utilities from internet. Many people don't bother to verify the contents of the file and extract them to their desktop. This kind of practice could harm the computer or your private information could be leaked to someone's hand. Thus, we should verify the file to see if it is tampered by someone or not. This article describe the one of many tools you can use to perform such a kind of activities.

Available Tools

Please visit this page for the tools available. I have been using the "File Checksum Tool" to verify MD5 checksum. It is very simple to use.

How-To-Do-It

Once you download the tool and start it, you should see the following screen:

Here is the procedures:

1. Browse file you downloaded.
2. Check MD5 for the checksum
3. Calculte Hash
4. copy the checksum and compare them.