So many people get burned by doing a search for Apache Open Office or
just for Open Office then downloading from a malicious 3rd party site
that the Apache OO Project should do what it can to try to warn people
*in advance*. It is impossible to do that globally and repeatedly but
perhaps some site could be developed to provide the official download
links for Apache OO and other good Open Source software like that from
Mozilla. All the projects could watch that site's links to catch any
corruption introduced maliciously to the download links .
Perhaps a press release could then be sent to prominent computer gurus
with significant followings to invite them to alert their audiences to
the problem of people being tricked into making downloads from malicious
sites. It could point them to the consolidated site for links to the
official download sites. There are probably many such gurus with wide
followings. I'd suggest Kim Komando as a start. (Maybe she'd even
consider hosting that consolidated site -- I bet that she would.)
Perhaps help could be enlisted from socially responsible Search Engine
operators too. I hope that such creatures exist. I'd invite them to
demonstrate their good will toward the honest computer uses of the world
by ranking the official community wide download link site first when
people search for any of the Open Source SW which it advertises.
v/r, Tom Panfil
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