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Posted to dev@openoffice.apache.org by Will Nettles <ne...@roadrunner.com> on 2014/01/19 19:52:43 UTC
Malware/ Adware masquerading as an Open Office extension
It’s nearly impossible to send a simple e-mail to you guys.
Malware/ Adware masquerading as an Open Office extension
Yesterday I wanted to place thousand separator commas…
The top website on Google for this seemed legit, but I wound up installing
Genieo a mean little malware/adware bug.
It’s not the first time this thing snuck on my computer.
Anyway,
love Open Office, keep up the good work.
Thanks
Will Nettles
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Re: Malware/ Adware masquerading as an Open Office extension
Posted by Tanja Meece <ta...@gmail.com>.
Thank you so much!
On Jan 19, 2014 11:03 AM, "Will Nettles" <ne...@roadrunner.com>
wrote:
> It’s nearly impossible to send a simple e-mail to you guys.
>
> Malware/ Adware masquerading as an Open Office extension
>
> Yesterday I wanted to place thousand separator commas…
>
> The top website on Google for this seemed legit, but I wound up installing
> Genieo a mean little malware/adware bug.
>
> It’s not the first time this thing snuck on my computer.
>
> Anyway,
> love Open Office, keep up the good work.
>
> Thanks
>
> Will Nettles
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> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@openoffice.apache.org
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Re: Malware/ Adware masquerading as an Open Office extension
Posted by Max Merbald <ma...@gmx.de>.
Will,
it's obviously not impossible to send us an e-mail - you succeeded!
How did you obtain Genieo? Did it come with your installation of
Openoffice? If so, you did not install it from the official website
www.openoffice.org. Openoffice from the official site comes without any
additional programs and, of course, without malware.
Genieo does have malware issues as its article on the Wikipedia says:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genieo
I'd say it makes sense to do a little research before you install some
software you're not familiar with.
Hope you got rid of the malware!
Max
Am 19.01.2014 19:52, schrieb Will Nettles:
> It’s nearly impossible to send a simple e-mail to you guys.
>
> Malware/ Adware masquerading as an Open Office extension
>
> Yesterday I wanted to place thousand separator commas…
>
> The top website on Google for this seemed legit, but I wound up installing
> Genieo a mean little malware/adware bug.
>
> It’s not the first time this thing snuck on my computer.
>
> Anyway,
> love Open Office, keep up the good work.
>
> Thanks
>
> Will Nettles
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> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@openoffice.apache.org
> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@openoffice.apache.org
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>
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Re: Malware/ Adware masquerading as an Open Office extension
Posted by Andrew Douglas Pitonyak <an...@pitonyak.org>.
On 01/19/2014 01:52 PM, Will Nettles wrote:
> The top website on Google for this seemed legit, but I wound up installing
> Genieo a mean little malware/adware bug.
Do you remember what your Google search terms were?
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Andrew Pitonyak
My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt
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