From: "Rob Weir" <[email protected]>
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 11:50 AM, David H. Lipman <[email protected]>
wrote:
From: "Anastasia Cher" <[email protected]>
Hello there,
I didn't know where to email, so I decided to just email to you. I just
want to tell that there is an issue, some website
www.*openoffice*.fm/suitepretends that its you. When I googled Open
Office it was the first website
in research so I just clicked and downloaded what they offered. The say
that it's an Open Office suit. When I finished and installed it, I had
lots
of bugs and staff but no office. So I don't know, but these guys are
using
your name for scam.
This is going on for numerous software from Adobe Reader to VLC Media
Player.
Right. This is how it seems to work:
1) They buy advertisements on Google and Bing and spam social
networks, offering OpenOffice,Free Office and similar keywords. These
lure users into going to their page.
2) The pick URL's and brand the site in a way that makes it look official.
3) To download OpenOffice you need to use their special "downloader"
tool. The main purpose of the downloader tool is to install other
unrelated applications onto your system. It may or may not then
install OpenOffice.
4) These other applications are sponsored apps, meaning another
company is paying for these applications to be promoted. That is the
source of revenue for the websites that do this.
I did a blog post on this:
http://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/how_to_safely_download_apache
Note: Users are not powerless. There are places to report such
issues. Some are listed in the blog post.
Regards,
-Rob
Yes affiliate profit share downloads for PUPs.
--
Dave
Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk
http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
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