Julian said:
Do not download anything from the site goldfishfreebies . com. This site
pretends to be a freeware / shareware download site, but the downloads are
hosted on the site and all have numeric filenames. When executed, they
install spyware.
Software authors who have products listed on this site may be especially
concerned, as the links to their home page and the product descriptions
are real.
It seems that they claim to supply some of my software, but of course, it
isn't my software that's being shipped.
Also, I notice they're hiding behind GoDaddy in terms of their identity.
I've now put a file on mywebsite, named badguy.png which is shipped in place
of my screen shots.
You can see the example here:
http://www.goldfishfreebies.com/content/view/522/35/
For those of you who aren't familiar with setting .htaccess files up, here's
how I did it
<BEGIN .HTACCESS>
SetEnvIf Referer .\goldfishfreebies\.com bad_guy1
SetEnvIf Request_URI "\.gif$" object_is_image=gif
SetEnvIf Request_URI "\.jpg$" object_is_image=jpg
SetEnvIf Request_URI "\.png$" object_is_image=png
SetEnvIf Request_URI "\.ico$" object_is_image=ico
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/badguy.png
RewriteCond %{ENV:bad_guy1} !^$
RewriteCond %{ENV
bject_is_image} !^$
RewriteRule /* /badguy.png [L]
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
<END .HTACCESS>
It's a pity it doesn't save people who have their referers turned off in
Opera or whatever, but I guess it serves them right.
If they won't tell me where they've come from, I can't help them.
Anthony Wieser
Wieser Software Ltd
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www.wieser-software.com/topdrop/?051111
