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Re: [fyodor@insecure.org: C|Net Download.Com is now bundling Nmapwith
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Allen Simpson)
Tue Dec 6 12:35:49 2011
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2011 12:34:31 -0500
From: William Allen Simpson <william.allen.simpson@gmail.com>
To: Eric Tykwinski <eric-list@truenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <018b01ccb438$99cd0420$cd670c60$@truenet.com>
Cc: fyodor@insecure.org, nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 12/6/11 12:00 PM, Eric Tykwinski wrote:
> Maybe it's just me, but I would think that simply getting them listed on
> stopbadware.org and other similar sites would probably have much more of an
> effect.
> The bad publicity can cause them to change tactics, but it takes some time.
> I've seen much quicker results from blacklisting on Google and other search
> engines.
>
I've reported it as a malware site via Firefox. Have you?
But the whole site should be scanned for other/similar malware, and blocked
accordingly. Probably a harder problem, as it gives different downloads
depending on browser and OS.
