Bitcollider is a small program you can run on your own computer to reliably identify and describe files on your machine. When run with a specific file as input, this program does two major things: It examines the file, calculating a distinctive digital fingerprint, or bitprint, and taking note of some other identifying information that can be extracted from the file, like file length and the local filename. And it launches your web browser to do a lookup at the author's website, submitting this identifying information as the search terms.
At the website, you'll see what - if anything - others have said about your file: what it really is, where it came from, and what people think of it. You'll also have a chance to contribute descriptions or comments yourself. If your automatic submission included information useful to our database, that new information will be contributed to the database.
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