Is this dangerous?

[DRD57]

Are there any hidden hazards to loading this freeware onto my computer and using it?

http://www.fookes.com/ezthumbs/

[paul2748]

I don't know about the freeware, but you should have a good anti virus software such as McAfee or Norton (Symantec) before downloading anything.

Are there any hidden hazards to loading this freeware onto my computer and using it?

http://www.fookes.com/ezthumbs/

[DRD57]

I use McAfee

[58 Yeoman]

Don, I've got a simple small program called Thumbs that works pretty well. It's a bit old and clunky, but I get by with it. It's less than 1meg if you want me to email it to you.

[Greg Wapling]

Another vote for Thumbs+
I've stuck with version 3.3 (it's up to 6 or 7 now) 'casue it does all I want it to do.

It can create thumbnails to your spec's and the html files to go with them.
It will also do some batch work
Has image modification capabilities
And is also a very good browser for your images (lots of different file types) Only overhead is a database file, mine is about 32Mb, but I have all of my images indexed.

Best of all it's free.
Can send install file if you want.

[purplepickup]

Are there any hidden hazards to loading this freeware onto my computer and using it?

http://www.fookes.com/ezthumbs/

I wouldn't be afraid to download it.  Usually if you do a search on Google on some softwares there will be hits that talk about problems.  Ezthumbs just comes up with people that are happy with it.  It's discussed favorably on some reputable sites.

[Mojo]

Just about any freeware that doesn't have ads in it is ok. You kinda have to watch out for the ones that use banners in the programs... they often sneak in other forms of advertising, often called "spyware" because it's fairly invasive. If you're getting pop up ads even when you don't have a browser window open, or getting popups at some place like Google.com, then odds are you've got some spyware crap on your machine. The stuff is horrible, it brings machines to a slow crawl. I recommend "Spybot - Search and Destroy"... it's really good. However, it usually "breaks" the program that installed the ads, so you have to decide what's worth putting up with.