At 10:07 2013-07-04, GaryT <[email protected]> wrote:
On 04/07/13 17:46, Alan Bourke wrote:
[snip]
> I downloaded one and scanned it with MSE, came back clean but you never
know. Aside from them being hooky it's not worth the risk of malware (on
Windows at any rate).
Using Linux.
I downloaded a couple, they looked suspicious immediately. The text
was poor quality (i.e. very low res - hard to read) and there was
one piece of text on the bottom of each page, in a nice clear blue,
obviously not scanned...
www.it-ebooks.info
IOW, it looked like the book was scanned and made into a PDF, with
the local insignia added to each page. Poor effort.
However, has anyone thought about warning the publishers? They may
not know and might have cause to get really angry. Does anyone KNOW
the publishers?
^^^^^
You misspelled "do".
I was a technical reviewer for an Apress book on SQL Server
2012. I E-mailed my contact there. He said that it is a never-ending battle.
Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko
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