On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 2:37 PM, L. Guruprasad <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Arun Khan <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 11:53 AM, Mehul Ved <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 12:00 AM, A. Mani <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/helpwanted/
>>>
>>> So we get well tested, artistic, multilingual malware?
>>> http://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1kxuul/beware_of_sourceforge_downloads_new_owner_is/
>>
>> I downloaded the latest SystemRescueCD iso yesterday (sourceforge
>> hosts the iso files).    Although, there are ads on the download page,
>> I got the ISO file without any ad fan fare and/or being redirected to
>> something other product.
>
> Based on what I understood about this, only the project owners who
> opted into the program will have their software downloaded as adware
> installers. So I am not surprised this worked fine. :)


Correct. One such project is
Filezilla(http://trac.filezilla-project.org/ticket/8888). Also, it is
only for Windows users so we might not see it from other platforms.
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