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.

  • Moonrise2473OP
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    6 months ago

    i downloaded an old version from 2017 to see what happens when checking updates on the domain that’s now distributing the scam. Luckily they’re replying with a 404 and not with “install this new update, it’s 100% safe”

    • laura@lemmy.iys.io
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      6 months ago

      you’d hope that the updater will at least check if the file is signed by the correct entity