One of those two sites is distributing adware. Which of them?

File Converter (FOSS) by Adrien Allard was hosted on file-converter[.]org since a decade. Then someone a few weeks ago snatched that domain and it’s now distributing adware. Almost identical design for the page, 100% designed to deceive users to download a different product, as it’s called Zamzar.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      96 months ago

      originally it was hosted in the .org domain, then somehow it changed hands and it was changed to .io

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      56 months ago

      Would fdroid be safe from this kind of practice? Of course there’s no web domains involved but the exploit there is potentially the same

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          16 months ago

          What I mean is fake apps with slightly different names, does fdroid have the potential to approve them? Even if it’s open source, if someone intentionally adds malicious code it can take a couple months to spot, while the scan is going on.