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.
--Pete