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Re: kicad.com malware and scams (the domain we don't know).

 

On 12/5/2015 2:17 PM, Adam Wolf wrote:
> What do folks normally do for things like this?  Do we need a KiCad
> trademark before we can start rattling cages at webhosts?

I have no idea what the protocol is here.  If anyone has any useful
advice, I'm open to suggestion.  Should we at least alert the ironically
named fabulous.com that they are serving malware under kicad.com or are
they a shady outfit by trade?  How would we even find out?

> 
> Their registrar is fabulous.com <http://fabulous.com>, and their
> acceptable use policy is
> here: http://www.fabulous.com/informationcenter/index.htm?formdata%5Bqid%5D=1533
> 
> It says their services must not be used to "send or distribute any
> virus, worm, trojan or other malicious code".

Apparently they forgot to read their own service agreement :). Maybe
their service has been compromised. Sigh! One more thing to deal with
that really doesn't help move KiCad along.

> 
> Adam Wolf
> 
> 
> On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Mark Roszko <mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     Just a warning, the domain (kicad.com <http://kicad.com>) which we
>     don't control now
>     distributes malware and scams!
> 
>     http://i.imgur.com/4GQz7jL.png
>     http://i.imgur.com/2OzKO1O.png
> 
> 
>     Kind of sad because this can be fucking over some potential KiCad
>     users. It seems to attack Chrome and Firefox users.
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