Only .rmskin uploads allowed on deviantART
Posted: June 12th, 2012, 8:10 pm
After a long time and dozens of requests to deviantART staff, they have finally made the Rainmeter section of the site Rainmeter on deviantART only allow .rmskin files as acceptable submissions.
This should greatly reduce the problems we have been having with .zip and .rar files containing malware on deviantART.
We are also taking other steps to protect our users, including a "blacklist" of skins that are identified as a problem. The new SkinInstaller in the current beta and later will not install these .rmskins, but will instead warn the user to delete the file.
In related news, we are working furiously on a new integrated tool in Rainmeter to make creating a .rmskin file out of your creations much easier. Stay tuned in the next week or two as we move toward our release of Rainmeter 2.3.
This should greatly reduce the problems we have been having with .zip and .rar files containing malware on deviantART.
We are also taking other steps to protect our users, including a "blacklist" of skins that are identified as a problem. The new SkinInstaller in the current beta and later will not install these .rmskins, but will instead warn the user to delete the file.
In related news, we are working furiously on a new integrated tool in Rainmeter to make creating a .rmskin file out of your creations much easier. Stay tuned in the next week or two as we move toward our release of Rainmeter 2.3.