From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Emacs pretest 25.0.90
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2016 10:47:11 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2a2861b5-b76f-4ab1-b785-9bef964b06fa@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fuxdioi1.fsf@wanadoo.es>
> >> > Is there a way to download it without accepting that
> >> > "FREE UnzipApp™ Chrome New Tab"? I don't see one.
> >>
> >> What exactly did you try? Downloading stuff from sourceforge doesn't
> >> require any acceptance of any add-ons. I just tried and didn't get
> >> anything like that. It just asks where to put the file.
> >
> > I simply clicked that URL, then I clicked the large, green
> > Download button. (I didn't see any other download link or
> > button.)
>
> You are the victim of a common scam. You go to a page for downloading
> something and you expect to see a "Download" button. The scammer rents
> and add on that page and the add consists on a prominent "Download"
> image that is linked to the scammer's product (or malware).
Yes.
> The real "Download" button or link is elsewhere on that page. In fact,
> on Sourceforge the download will start after a few seconds without you
> pressing anything, but you shouldn't need to know that.
No, I don't think so. Believe me, I searched quite a while for any
such real download button or link (as I said in a previous mail).
I saw none such. I found no other way to do anything at that point
but to abandon.
Note that what I see at the original URL now is not what I saw before.
There is now a small ad and a green button for the spam product, but
there are also clearly other, legitimate ways to download the pretest
(including a legitimate small green SourceForge button).
I don't have a screenshot of the original page, to show you that there
was no alternative, but I was able to at least send a screenshot of the
second page shown (after clicking the green button on the first, which
had no alternative for downloading).
> On an add-based download site (or any download site, actually), always
> check the hyperlink before clicking. If the hyperlink doesn't look sane
> to you, don't click.
Agreed.
> Yes, it sucks.
Agreed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-31 18:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-30 15:42 Emacs pretest 25.0.90 Nicolas Petton
2016-01-30 16:05 ` Rostislav Svoboda
2016-01-30 16:12 ` Nicolas Petton
2016-01-30 16:32 ` Rostislav Svoboda
2016-01-30 16:40 ` Rostislav Svoboda
2016-01-30 16:51 ` Nicolas Petton
2016-01-30 16:58 ` Rostislav Svoboda
2016-01-30 17:13 ` Nicolas Petton
2016-01-30 16:09 ` [emacs-announce] " Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-30 20:03 ` Glenn Morris
2016-01-30 20:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-30 17:40 ` Drew Adams
2016-01-30 18:16 ` Nicolas Petton
2016-01-30 19:56 ` Drew Adams
2016-01-30 21:50 ` Nicolas Petton
2016-01-30 22:00 ` Drew Adams
2016-01-31 9:33 ` Tom
2016-01-31 16:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-30 22:03 ` Ulrich Mueller
2016-01-31 3:08 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-01-31 16:26 ` Drew Adams
2016-01-31 16:37 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-01-31 16:51 ` Drew Adams
2016-01-31 16:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-31 17:15 ` Drew Adams
2016-01-31 17:25 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-01-31 17:49 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-01-31 18:36 ` Drew Adams
2016-01-31 19:06 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-01-31 18:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-31 18:39 ` Drew Adams
2016-01-31 18:37 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-01-31 18:47 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2016-02-05 16:02 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
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