Comments on: Babylon v8.0.0 r18-ZWT

By: ftailor

ftailor — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:05:08 +0000

Serilals (links posted by grunk and edan on 30 May) also show up as virused with my avast! Web monitor service running. Trojan-Other was the subcategory (I didn't take note of the closer details.

Soapbox time:
The one and only reason to disseminate malware is that it is fun to do. Think about it. The old saw about getting back at Microsoft by making life miserable for the people who buy and use Windows doesn't hold water anymore. Not when you have hundreds of people who have no particular or even vague grudge against the anonymous users whose systems they are helping to send to the local landfill by their careless and malicious activities, don't even speak the same language as their victims, would not know them well enough (or want to) to do anything mean or injurious to them away from the Net, and probably (if by some wild chance they'd never learned coding but instead took up some other hobby) wouldn't dream of doing anything remotely comparable in some other area of life or business.

Too off topic? Then delete my half-Irish arse!

BZT

By: Minmakan

Minmakan — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:05:37 +0000

The 'zwt.bof'from the Z.W.T. (zero waiting time) group works for the 5 premium dictionaries mentioned but not for the dictionary Larousse Multidico, so is there any .bof file for this dictionary or anything to activate it???

By: someone

someone — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:36:20 +0000

each version just gets a bulkier interface and requires more memory but with the same old features…

By: Babylon Lover

Babylon Lover — Sat, 30 May 2009 21:21:23 +0000

… of course be careful about the suspected Trojan that flakey mentions in post #25!

I will probably not dl this release, since I am currently using a version 7 release of Babylon, and I am completely content with it.

I use 7.0.3 r13 from the Z.W.T. (zero waiting time) group. It came with a keyfile 'zwt.bof', and the setup.exe is (was at that time) identical to the setup.exe that is downloadable as a trial from babylon.com. You installed that, and imported the zwt.bof keyfile to convert it from TRIAL to FULL.

I haven't tried to go online with it because I fear deactivation (the license goes like 9999 Team Z.W.T – that's will certainly not withstand babylon.com's online license checking), but as I wrote earlier I don't really have to – because of the locally installed glossaries/dictionaries. Most of those are free, anyway.

Btw.: One glossary I can generally recommend is 'Acronyms from A to Z', if you're wondering every now and then about what this or that acronym means. It is NOT totally up to date, but still very useful.

I heard that 'Ultralingua' markets a Babylon clone. There is a keygen by TMG.

By: Babylon Lover

Babylon Lover — Sat, 30 May 2009 20:40:40 +0000

no1 wrote:
"If I will not block it with firewall, will the crack still work?"

I don't think so, but I don't know. What I know is that earlier versions didn't work (id est: were deactivated) when they were able to to online. So since v4 I always block Babylon using a personal firewall programm (e.g. ZoneAlarm).

I downloaded the dictionaries that I need and installed them locally.

Including the premium content that came with a v7 release:
Encyclopedia Britannica Concise version (there is also a free version of Encyclopedia Britannica on babylon.com, but that's much more abridged than the premium version).