NINITE gets excellent reviews and is the source I use and trust About Ninite
Ninite was founded by Patrick Swieskowski and Sascha Kuzins. Investors include Y Combinator <http://ycombinator.com> and a small collection of helpful angels <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_investor>. We believe in simplicity. You can contact us via email <cont...@ninite.com> or at our office: Secure By Design Inc. 795 Folsom Street -- First Floor San Francisco, CA 94107 -- "To succeed, stay focused, Do what you do best, * up-skill, prepare for new challenge, make time for earning"* Advocate: Client Focused Health Care Providers: Physicians, Hospitals, Nursing Homes, and Other Care Services <https://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=6555482&trk=anet_ug_hm> http://tinyurl.com/nmnvme3 Dave+Mainwaring+Knowledge+Networks -- On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Tom Panfil <tap.h...@verizon.net> wrote: > So many people get burned by doing a search for Apache Open Office or just > for Open Office then downloading from a malicious 3rd party site that the > Apache OO Project should do what it can to try to warn people *in > advance*. It is impossible to do that globally and repeatedly but perhaps > some site could be developed to provide the official download links for > Apache OO and other good Open Source software like that from Mozilla. All > the projects could watch that site's links to catch any corruption > introduced maliciously to the download links . > > Perhaps a press release could then be sent to prominent computer gurus > with significant followings to invite them to alert their audiences to the > problem of people being tricked into making downloads from malicious > sites. It could point them to the consolidated site for links to the > official download sites. There are probably many such gurus with wide > followings. I'd suggest Kim Komando as a start. (Maybe she'd even > consider hosting that consolidated site -- I bet that she would.) > > Perhaps help could be enlisted from socially responsible Search Engine > operators too. I hope that such creatures exist. I'd invite them to > demonstrate their good will toward the honest computer uses of the world by > ranking the official community wide download link site first when people > search for any of the Open Source SW which it advertises. > > v/r, Tom Panfil > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
