From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs pretest 25.0.90 Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2016 20:06:44 +0100 Message-ID: <87powho9ff.fsf@web.de> References: <87vb6bqdjn.fsf@petton.fr> <22189.13135.205161.217795@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <84b37c80-3aec-4918-ae12-c0a4a83816a6@default> <83twlt1y8k.fsf@gnu.org> <6d1a9577-31aa-4e01-95ed-61e6176d1788@default> <87vb69od0k.fsf@web.de> <370a1386-5f14-45d4-8aff-33973cf3c03c@default> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1454267236 13937 80.91.229.3 (31 Jan 2016 19:07:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2016 19:07:16 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 31 20:07:07 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aPxKz-0008Qi-3d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 31 Jan 2016 20:07:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42875 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aPxKy-00008J-8q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 31 Jan 2016 14:07:04 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49542) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aPxKt-0008WP-Kk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Jan 2016 14:07:00 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aPxKo-00027n-K9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Jan 2016 14:06:59 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:55854) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aPxKo-00027f-Dm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Jan 2016 14:06:54 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aPxKm-00087T-Q4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Jan 2016 20:06:52 +0100 Original-Received: from dslb-092-077-162-209.092.077.pools.vodafone-ip.de ([92.77.162.209]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 31 Jan 2016 20:06:52 +0100 Original-Received: from michael_heerdegen by dslb-092-077-162-209.092.077.pools.vodafone-ip.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 31 Jan 2016 20:06:52 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dslb-092-077-162-209.092.077.pools.vodafone-ip.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:S3Fsk9FxjVA11EyA8DArsq4KwHw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:199093 Archived-At: Drew Adams 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.