That's the main way the get traffic. Try searching for OpenOffice on Bing or Google.. Same thing with the sponsored ads. I've seen similar on Facebook as well.
I've explained in several previous posts what can be done in such situations. I've included the links to the relevant complaint forms. We just need someone to drive this with Apache so a proper complaint can be submitted. It must come from the trademark's legal owner.. -Rob On Jan 9, 2013, at 8:09 PM, Peter Junge <peter.ju...@gmx.org> wrote: > A warning to everyone. I just found out by coincidence that dubious download > pages that we suspecting to spread malware with OpenOffice are adding > 'sponsored links' to books about OpenOffice at Amazon. > > On 1/9/2013 4:07 PM, Herbert Duerr wrote: >> On 09.01.2013 02:36, james quayle wrote: >>> Hey, Just wanted to let you know that your program has a Trojan Horse >>> attached to it. I downloaded your program, so that I could create a >>> Powerpoint for school, and my security software informed me that there >>> was a Trojan Horse attached to the Open Office files. Luckily my >>> system protected my computer and blocked it immediately. So I then had >>> to uninstall the program. It might be a great idea to fix that asap. >>> Have a great day. >> >> https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/how_to_safely_download_apache is a >> great blog post on exactly that topic. >> >> As Peter wrote it would be interesting where you downloaded the infected >> version from. Checking your browser's history is the easiest way to find >> that out. >> >> http://www.openoffice.org/download/index.html is the most reliable start >> for downloading a clean copy of our favorite productivity suite. >> >> Herbert
