you documentatoin leads people to download a nasty virus

[Cristian Ciupitu]

On 10/06/2014 06:51 PM, Pete Travis wrote:
>
>
> On Sep 22, 2014 3:48 AM, "Andrew E. Slater" <slater126 at 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 at 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 at fedoraproject.org
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 8:54 PM, Andrew E. Slater
<slater126 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On this page:
> > > >
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/20/html/Burning_ISO_images_to_disc/sect-Burning_ISO_images_to_disc-Validating_the_Files-Validating_in_the_Windows_Graphical_Environment.html
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > 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/