On Sun, 23 Aug 2015 04:44:08 +0000 toki <toki.kant...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 22/08/15 10:23, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > > This will redirect to SourceForge servers where the files are stored. > > I realize that this is a really difficult concept to understand, but > SourceForce is treated as a known distributor of malware, and thus all > downloads from SourceForge _will_ fail. List members will be aware that one can over-ride the recommendations of a virus scanner, virus scanners being appplications that frequently differ in their recommentadtions anyway. In an attempt to answer the original question I did point out two safety precautions - not clicking on any proffered link, and verifying the download against the security checksums, both precautions that to my personal knowledge are effective. > > The solution is to move Apache OpenOffice from SourceForge to a site > that is not known as a distributor of malware. > GitHub, for example, would be a good starting point. > > At this stage of the game, I suspect that there is nothing, but nothing, > that Dice Holdings can do, to get SourceForge removed from the various > blacklists of known malware distributors. (If I understood the page I > was looking it, SourceForge was added to yet another blocklist of known > malware distributors, last week.) > > > If one is in any doubt about the integrity of a download, > > The issue isn't the integrity of the Apache OpenOffice download, but the > known lack of integrity of SourceForge. > > jonathon > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > -- Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
