[147360] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [fyodor@insecure.org: C|Net Download.Com is now bundling Nmap
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeroen van Aart)
Wed Dec 7 17:54:03 2011
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:52:31 -0800
From: Jeroen van Aart <jeroen@mompl.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20111207041853.GL24540@syn.titan.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Fyodor wrote:
> switched their Nmap downloads back to our real installer. At least
> for now. But that isn't enough--they are still infecting the
> installers for thousands of other packages!
I am sorry about these problems, it is unacceptable.
Sourceforge, at least a year or 2 ago, did something that was only
slightly less unacceptable. They had (or still have?) ads that would
display when you click a donwload link at some site, say
http://www.clamwin.com/content/view/18/46/
In this example (and clamwin had no part in that) the redirect of the
download link would show an add for another virus scanner (but in fact
it was malware, or, so broken it'd behave like malware). I know of
actual cases where someone accidentally downloaded the software from the
add, and messed up their computer.
So much for pointing them to a free virus scanner...
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