Hi,
John Ralls <[email protected]> writes:
> On May 31, 2011, at 4:24 AM, Stephane Pierre wrote:
>
>> Good day, all.
>>
>> I am writing to inform you that in the last few days, I have been trying
>> unsuccessfully to browse to www.gnucash.org(the site times out). In my
>> research, I have a found a new site called www.gnucash.net which seems about
>> the window version of gnucash. Being skeptical by nature, I decided to
>> inform you, some of the project's members of this as it seemed odd.
>>
>> Please continue the good work
>
>
> Thanks for the heads-up. I tested the download in a virtual machine and found
> that it's a legitimate, though old, MS Windows build of Gnucash. The website
> itself doesn't provide the sources, so they're technically in violation of
> the GPL. But the installed program has links to our real website (which is
> back up now), which of course does, so it would be hard to make a court case
> out of the violation.
>
> The package also (optionally) installs a MS Bing toolbar into one's default
> browser, adds the Bing homepage (and sets it as one's browser's homepage),
> and Bing Default Search. It all seems legitimate.
>
> I ran MS Safety Check after the installation and it came up clean. That's not
> a guarantee that there's no malware, of course.
>
> Whois shows the contacts for the domain as "Moniker Privacy Services", but
> Moniker is also the registrar, so they're probably shielding the actual
> owners.
>
> I'm copying the Gnucash Developer's list on this so that the other active
> developers know about the website and my tests, and there will be a record of
> it.
Thanks. I've sent mail to the owner of that site to try to at least
open up a dialog. The domain was registered on December 27, 2010.
> Regards,
> John Ralls
-derek
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