Category Archives: Project news

Project repositories will move to self-hosted

Posted on 2019-08-21 by Oliver

Given the bad news from Bitbucket, the WinDirStat project will move to a self-hosted solution until the end of 2019. At least that’s the plan. We thank Bitbucket for their services. Once the self-hosting will be available, I will let … Continue reading →

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New independent file download mirror

Posted on 2013-12-01 by Oliver

Triple IT from the Netherlands kindly offered to provide another download mirror at no cost. (click to go to their website) It’s now linked from our download page. Thanks to Triple IT for the offer and implementation. // Oliver

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Being all social now …

Posted on 2013-11-29 by Oliver

@windirstat 😉

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Re: WinDirStat detected as trojan ? rightly so

Posted on 2013-07-18 by Oliver

Submitted the trojanized file to a number of AVs and they are catching up as can be witnessed on VirusTotal. Hope not too many unsuspecting users fell for this. Whatever the source of the file may be. // Oliver

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WinDirStat detected as trojan … rightly so

Posted on 2013-07-17 by Oliver

Well, actually it isn’t the genuine WinDirStat but a trojanized version posing as WinDirStat and it’s masquerading under the disguise of the good Unicode version of windirstat.exe which is contained in the installer. So it’s named that as well. Now, … Continue reading →

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Began signing the commits I make to the source repo

Posted on 2012-12-18 by Oliver

I have started to sign the commits to the source repository using GnuPG and will expect the same from future contributors to the project (although OpenSSL with X509 certificates will also be accepted, of course). It provides a level of … Continue reading →

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windirstat.info now also via SSL

Posted on 2011-05-23 by Oliver

The website is now also available via SSL. This also means that you will be able to use the contact page via SSL. // Oliver

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To build WDS from the repo …

Posted on 2011-02-05 by Oliver

… you’ll have to have a 7.x SDK registered for any Visual Studio version before 2010. Currently I build with Visual Studio 2005, but solutions exist also for 2008 and 2010. The reason for this new limitation is that I … Continue reading →

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Another logo proposal

Posted on 2010-07-26 by Oliver

Hi folks, here is another logo proposal from Venezuela. Frankly, I find it more original than the logo suggested by Storm!. In a strange way it condenses the meaning of what WinDirStat does into a symbol. However, I found there … Continue reading →

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New project member

Posted on 2009-11-19 by Oliver

Please welcome our new project member Juan (aka neglox) 😉 // Oliver

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