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From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs pretest 25.0.90
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2016 20:06:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87powho9ff.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 370a1386-5f14-45d4-8aff-33973cf3c03c@default

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> No, I'm pretty sure that my laptop has no malware on it.
>
> However, if I had clicked to accept this crap (in order to get
> the Emacs pretest download), then I might well have gotten
> infected with malware. ;-)

I found this page for example:

http://www.howtogeek.com/218764/warning-don%E2%80%99t-download-software-from-sourceforge-if-you-can-help-it/

E.g. "Although SourceForge may no longer be bundling these applications
with junkware for the moment, the SourceForge website is still full of
misleading advertisements that point you to installers full of
junkware."

I guess what you describe is covered by that sentence.

If it is true what is described there, I think it would be better to
provide the pretest at a different place.


Michael.




  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-31 19:06 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 [this message]
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
2016-02-05 16:02               ` Clément Pit--Claudel

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