IN LINE On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 9:44 PM, toki <toki.kant...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 22/08/15 10:23, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > >> but avast and malware will not let me. > > Download only from http://www.openoffice.org/download > > 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.* > > * The foregoing italicized paragraph is demonstrably -- and repeatedly demonstrated as -- UNTRUE. I routinely and repeatedly download from SourceForge without download failures when downloading to various "flavors" of Windows systems.* *Please stop spreading FUD.* 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 > >
