I clicked on the download button at the Miklor website link to CHIRP which I though would be a legitimate place. I will try your link tomorrow. Thanks, Skip

From: Jim McCorison Sent: Monday, June 16, 2014 8:24 PM To: Discussion of CHIRP Subject: Re: [chirp_users] Download

Skip,

As a general rule of thumb you are always better off downloading software from the author’s website, like the link that Brad provided. Avoid the generic software download sites like the plague. Many are just repositories for malware, spam ware, etc. Even some of the better known ones bundle crapware into the legitimate software bundles. If you must download software from these kinds of sites, go in with your shields raised and photon torpedoes armed.

Cheers, Jim

--- Jim McCorison Orcas Island, WA

On Jun 16, 2014, at 5:48 PM, Skip rockyvista@windstream.net wrote:

I thought I would download the latest daily build for CHIRP and got the following message. Comments? Skip KF5ZXQ

Warning: Unsafe Website Blocked! dl2.v47installer.com This website has been blocked temporarily because of the following reason(s):

a.. Malware: Site may contain content that is harmful, illegal, or malicious to your computer Go back to safety (Recommended) This website has been reported as unsafe by various users and we do NOT recommend you to continue browsing.

Disregard this warning and continue (Not Recommended)

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Good question Paul, I can't see ad's (except those from 1 major source) but those I have seen are designed to look like the download you are looking for. They analyse the site that has agreed to host the ad's and when it chooses the ad to display it does so using similar style artwork and fonts to make you think the download you want is theirs, leading you to a rogue site and a source of malware. The ad's are often placed near the real download link and quite often have one or two words "Download" or "Click here" or a picture with those words on. The links are just a form of social engineering to make you install malware.

I once asked someone to download VLC and couldn't recall the url, I asked him to search for it, he used his choice of search engine (different to the one I use) and he chose the first link on the page, this turned out to be an ad, made to look like the rest of the search results, further more the ad was for one of these sites that changed the name of the download to the same as the URL used EG. It would download a file called myfaveapp.exe if you changed the url to xxxxxx.com/myfaveapp It didn't matter what the name was it still worked even if the application was a made up name.

Dennis Smith M1DLG

On 17 June 2014 08:32, Paul Mills ac0hy@wpmills.com wrote:

On 6/16/2014 23:24, Skip wrote:

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I clicked on the download button at the Miklor website link to CHIRP which I though would be a legitimate place. I will try your link tomorrow. Thanks, Skip

Miklor link looks good to me. Perhaps message was triggered by an advertisement?

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