Zenon Panoussis writes:
Apocalypse has happened: the sun rose from the west and Sam is now peddling malware. Proof: http://qdh.nl/tmp/courier-is-malware.png .) Sam, will you have a word with them?
I saw that about an hour ago with courier-imap-4.71.1. Verified the pgp sig, so Sourceforge has not been compromised, so that's good. Just to be sure, I uploaded courier-imap-4.71.1 to virustotal.com, and it didn't find anything. After that, I opened a support ticket with Sourceforge.
Now, given that Sourceforge is apparently doing this with other files too (and I won't waste my time uploading another file to virustotal), I did some digging around their help center (Sourceforge will probably not get around to reading my ticket until tomorrow), and found this page:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/courier/malware which appears to be only visible to me, so here's the dump: http://www.courier-mta.org/sourceforge-malware.pdf
From that, it's obvious to me that Sourceforge's malware scanner is on thefritz; and they rigged their system with a failsafe that if their virus scanner blows up, it defaults to malware being detected. Which is not really such a bad idea.
But one thing's bugging me, according to that, Sourceforge's malware scanner has been tossing its cookies for well over a month now, and this is the first time someone noticed it.
That could mean only one of two things. 1) Courier project isn't really getting much traffic for anyone to notice, and that's entirely plausible; and/or 2) Even the dates on that page are bogus.
Anyway, I'll give Sourceforge until tomorrow to figure out what's going on. My links from the download page are Sourceforge's default download links, that put up an interstitial with Sourceforge's banner ads, before starting the download. I am fine with Sourceforge trying to make a few pennies, here or there; but it looks like that it's possible to link directly to the downloads, bypassing Sourceforge's interstitial page with the bogus warnings.
If Sourceforge doesn't resolve it tomorrow, or I get an unhelpful response, they won't follow-up until Monday; and I'll just replace all the links with the direct download links, bypassing Sourceforge's banner ads, for now.
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