You should be okay. We can give you and exact link here that you can click on, and it will prompt you to start the download process. The discussion earlier about "verifying" the download helps to make sure that you get the complete file, and that it is not corrupted. It's a good practice. Be patient though, the download does take a good bit unless you have a very fast cable connection.So will I be taking a bad chance if I went online with this unprotected computer to download the Linux distro?