Depending on the version of windows and it's network environment you freshly installed rootkits could be likely, but that is OT here.
Note that different ISP in Israel is a fairly relative statement since there are basically just a few major players who own a bunch of the smaller ISPs and could have caching proxies on their international lines... Did you traceroute the connection both from working and non-working settings? Regards, Eliyahu - אליהו 2015-03-21 8:30 GMT+02:00 Amos Shapira <amos.shap...@gmail.com>: > Just speculating, but could it be that your ISP uses a caching transparent > proxy (which would explain why it doesn't happen on SSL) and its cache got > corrupted? > The "other ISP" case could be explained if it's actually > upstream/downstream from your ISP, or they share a proxy cache for other > reasons. > > > On 21 March 2015 at 04:07, Roman Ovseitsev <rom...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Please forgive the slight off-topic, but I am experiencing a rather >> strange issue while downloading a certain file over HTTP. >> >> Instead of getting node.js installer as expected from here >> http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.12.0/node-v0.12.0-x86.msi I am receiving a >> completely different executable - an installer for Elcomsoft's Advanced EFS >> Password Recovery whatever that is. >> >> Both files are exactly the same size but SHA sums obviously don't match. >> >> SSL version of the link - >> https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.12.0/node-v0.12.0-x86.msi works as expected. >> i.e. downloads the correct node.js installer. >> >> >> I have verified this on three different machines running Fedora, CentOS, >> and Windows. None of these machines ever exchanged any files or used >> anything else but the default repos. In fact the windows machine is a 13 >> years old pc with a freshly installed OS. So presumably that dismisses any >> possibility of rootkits. >> >> It doesn't seems to be due to my router or ISP either. I am getting the >> wrong executable on two of my neighbours' Wi-Fi networks and at least one >> of them seems to be using a different ISP. >> However it doesn't happen on another Israeli nor a couple of US and UK >> servers I've tried so far. >> I am not using any proxies either. >> >> nodejs.org domain on all of the above resolves to the same IP. >> >> >> What's going on? >> Could be that the ISPs are the culprit? >> >> Considering that the application is relatively popular and I am the only >> one experiencing this issue it doesn't seem to be the case of nodejs.org >> server doing this on purpose (knowingly or not). >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-il mailing list >> Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il >> http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >> >> > > > -- > <http://au.linkedin.com/in/gliderflyer> > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > >
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