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