Quick question about HASH, please answer.

If the Hashes matches, you are good to go.

 

Yeah, it's bit weird, but - you know - it works very well for me, too. I've the same infos for my ISO. Hashes matches & modified date is like yours:

Friday, ‎July ‎24, ‎2009, ‏‎9:42:30 PM

I don't have any problem at all.

So, have a lot of fun with Win7!

 

This is because date of creation/modification isn't part of the file, it is part of the file system (NTFS, FAT, etc.).

Sometime even if you just copy the file to another location on the hard drive, the date of modification changes, but the file is still the same, the hashes are here to prove it

 

The last time I got a 14/7 windows 7 iso was from Liza from *****-bb.
Shouldn't be much of a problem since the hash matches.

 

Maybe, but think of it this way: even if you make a modification to the file (let say, you remove 1 bit) and then you undo this modification (i.e. put back the removed bit), the resulting file would still be the same as the original, right? Only the modification date will be different.

The date doesn't matter.

You can create the exact same file at separate moments.

More simple, let say I create a string:

Code:

1234abcd

Okay, I have my 8 characters long string, its MD5 hash is: ef73781effc5774100f87fe2f437a435

And the creation/modification date is:

Monday, 30 November 6:54:47 p.m.(GMT + 0:00)

Now let say I edit the string:

Code:

234abc

The content is different, so its hash is different as well: e2cf7fc1ec4decc1c60efd26d8ae5a42

Let's edit the string again:

Code:

1234abcd

This is now the same as the original, but the modification date is different:

Monday, 30 November 6:58:08 p.m.(GMT + 0:00)

But the hash is the same as the original one: ef73781effc5774100f87fe2f437a435

because the CONTENT of the string is exactly the same, no matter when it was made the same.

 

So, someone probably change the ei.cfg or deleted it and then restored it. The hash matched so people everywhere downloaded it.