[squid-users] squidnt.com, warning
It seems that the site http://squidnt.com/ is trying to masquerade as an official website for Mr Serassio's Windows port of Squid. It doesn't explicitly state this, but the wording of the site contents strongly implies such a thing. Also it was entered into a new Wikipedia article on SquidNT as the homepage: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=SquidNT&action=history I suspect blog-spam of some sort.
Re: [squid-users] squidnt.com, warning
Hi, At 18.01 16/10/2008, Mr Lyphifco wrote: It seems that the site http://squidnt.com/ is trying to masquerade as an official website for Mr Serassio's Windows port of Squid. It doesn't explicitly state this, but the wording of the site contents strongly implies such a thing. Also it was entered into a new Wikipedia article on SquidNT as the homepage: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=SquidNT&action=history I suspect blog-spam of some sort. Thanks for your report. The squidnt.com site seems deliberately incomplete SquidNT was the name of the Windows port project of Squid 2.5. Starting from Squid 2.6 STABLE4 Windows is an official Squid 2 platform, and the official sources can be compiled on Windows without changes. So SquidNT is the name of a complete project. I think that the Wikipedia page and the Squid FAQ page should me more accurate about this. So I have just updated the Wiki page: http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/AboutSquid#head-500ddc367517c94cdf5cc49cb26868ab64becf63 Please, do you can update again the Wikipedia page ? Thanks Regards Guido - Guido Serassio Acme Consulting S.r.l. - Microsoft Certified Partner Via Lucia Savarino, 1 10098 - Rivoli (TO) - ITALY Tel. : +39.011.9530135 Fax. : +39.011.9781115 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.acmeconsulting.it/
Re: [squid-users] squidnt.com, warning
On tor, 2008-10-16 at 17:01 +0100, Mr Lyphifco wrote: > It seems that the site http://squidnt.com/ is trying to masquerade as > an > official website for Mr Serassio's Windows port of Squid. It doesn't > explicitly state this, but the wording of the site contents strongly > implies > such a thing. > > Also it was entered into a new Wikipedia article on SquidNT as the > homepage: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=SquidNT&action=history > > I suspect blog-spam of some sort. I would agree. The site seems completely anonymous on who is behind the content, and I have never heard of the name who is registered as owner of the domain (additionally the domain owner is registered with an UK address but US phonenumber.. which is a bit odd but imho) But I do suspect the wikipedia user who created the wikipedia article is the the same. The wikipedia article was created before the first blog post (Wikipedia article created 19 July, first blog post is from 26 July). I have added a warning comment on their download page. Regards Henrik signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [squid-users] squidnt.com, warning
On tor, 2008-10-16 at 21:16 +0200, Guido Serassio wrote: > Please, do you can update again the Wikipedia page ? Done. Regards Henrik signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [squid-users] squidnt.com, warning
> On tor, 2008-10-16 at 17:01 +0100, Mr Lyphifco wrote: >> It seems that the site http://squidnt.com/ is trying to masquerade as >> an >> official website for Mr Serassio's Windows port of Squid. It doesn't >> explicitly state this, but the wording of the site contents strongly >> implies >> such a thing. >> >> Also it was entered into a new Wikipedia article on SquidNT as the >> homepage: >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=SquidNT&action=history >> >> I suspect blog-spam of some sort. > > I would agree. The site seems completely anonymous on who is behind the > content, and I have never heard of the name who is registered as owner > of the domain (additionally the domain owner is registered with an UK > address but US phonenumber.. which is a bit odd but imho) > > But I do suspect the wikipedia user who created the wikipedia article is > the the same. The wikipedia article was created before the first blog > post (Wikipedia article created 19 July, first blog post is from 26 > July). > > I have added a warning comment on their download page. > > Regards > Henrik > Which appears to have been moderated out of existence. At least the three comments now present are all by 'admin' advertising their downloads. Amos
Re: [squid-users] squidnt.com, warning
On fre, 2008-10-17 at 14:40 +1300, Amos Jeffries wrote: > > I have added a warning comment on their download page. > Which appears to have been moderated out of existence. > At least the three comments now present are all by 'admin' advertising > their downloads. Suspected this would happen. Oh well. Now we at least know for sure they are hostile. For all we know that Squid download may well be a trojan. Regards Henrik signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [squid-users] squidnt.com, warning
Henrik Nordstrom wrote: Now we at least know for sure they are hostile. For all we know that Squid download may well be a trojan. Did anyone else notice that the site helpfully provides an MD5 hash to check, and even provide a tool to check it with? Leaves me wondering if both are trojans. TB