On 10/06/2014 06:51 PM, Pete Travis wrote:
On Sep 22, 2014 3:48 AM, "Andrew E. Slater" <slater126(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The add on that page (which deceptively looks like the download I
went to
> your site for) was a virus. It loaded all kinds of stuff onto my
computer
> which were very difficult to remove.
>
> Regards, Andy
>
>
>
> Andrew Slater
>
> On Sep 19, 2014 10:40 PM, "Chaoyi Zha" <cydrobolt(a)fedoraproject.org>
wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Can you provide the information that has led you to believe that
> > DivHasher is a virus? Based on my research, it seems like a perfectly
> > legit application.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > --
> >
> > Chaoyi Zha
> > cydrobolt(a)fedoraproject.org
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 8:54 PM, Andrew E. Slater
<slater126(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > On this page:
> > >
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/20/html/Burning_ISO_images_to_...
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > You suggest this download
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > DivHasher:
http://soft.mydiv.net/DivHasher.html
> > >
> > > Which leads to a site that totally compromises the users computer
> > >
> > > Please remove from your site.
> > >
> > > Regards, Andy
> > > --
>
> I'm passing this along to the docs list to ensure it gets reviewed
by
those
> responsible for the content. Any elaboration or citations you
can
provide
> will be very helpful, Andy.
>
> --Pete
Any site could have deceptive advertisements. Personally, I despise them,
and I can understand your frustration after falling into their trap.
However, the site isn't quite responsible for the advertising selection.
Usually a webmaster allows an ad service a given area of the page, and the
ads are selected based on a combination of what that service knows
about the
site, and what the service knows about *you*. I see a completely
different
ad there, and you have a good chance of encountering the same
troublesome ad
at millions of other websites.
The best guidance I can give you is to be cautious when browsing. You can
use ad blocking browser extensions, do-not-track headers, etc to make that
easier, but we will never completely sanitize the internet of risk.
That said, I've done some hashing for $dayjob recently using native
PowerShell capabilities, and will look into adding instructions for
that to
the installation guide.
By the way digestIT [1] could be a pretty nice alternative and it's
recommended
by Netflix, too. And as a bonus, the page is ad-free.
Cheers,
Cristian Ciupitu
[1]:
http://www.colonywest.us/digestit/