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Sneak in Scam
Dear Sir/Madam
There is an Indian based "Company" Techliveconnect that is using you as a
means of convincing potential users that that they have major computer
problems particularly when they download a piece of software called
Driverdoctor. They appear to be a well organised scam with the charges going
through a Dutch "company" called Avangate. Do you know of them
Re: Sneak in Scam
Posted by Bruce Pierson <bp...@gmail.com>.
My mother received one of these calls. My mother is 82 and has never owned
a computer, nor has any intention of ever doing so. They still continued
following the same script about how she needed to call them and get her
computer repaired. They finally hung up when she told them it was
"pathetically obvious" that they were scammers.
-Bruce-
*"But still darkness is no reason, we are made of sterner stuff, and our
swords though old and rusty, still were blunted sharp enough."*
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 2:27 PM, jd1008 <jd...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 08/18/2014 10:10 AM, Doug wrote:
>
>>
>> On 08/18/2014 11:52 AM, James Plante wrote:
>>
>>> It's a *telephone* scam, Doug. They call you, and tell you that there
>>> are problems with your Windows computer, and that they can repair them. I
>>> don't know what happens when you agree; maybe they have you log into their
>>> site and install malware, maybe they just charge you for the login. I just
>>> don't know. You see, when the caller completed his opening sentence, I said
>>> something very rude which may damage international relations--and hung up.
>>> I use a Mac, and I won't touch Windows with a vaccinated crowbar. (Personal
>>> choice.)
>>>
>>> Jim Plante
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanx for the info, Jim. They can expect the same response from me, if
>> they call. I have Windows, but I seldom log in to it--I do almost all
>> computing using PCLinuxOS.
>>
>> --doug
>>
> Exactly what was done to a good friend of mine, even as far as telling
> her they are the national authority for all windows installations and
> that she needs
> to follow their instructions .... yara yara ...
> Well, she was lucking she called me first.
> She took the number they called her from and reported them to the local
> FBI office.
> She never heard from them again. So apparently some other similar outfit
> has replaced them.
>
>
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Re: Sneak in Scam
Posted by jd1008 <jd...@gmail.com>.
On 08/18/2014 10:10 AM, Doug wrote:
>
> On 08/18/2014 11:52 AM, James Plante wrote:
>> It's a *telephone* scam, Doug. They call you, and tell you that there
>> are problems with your Windows computer, and that they can repair
>> them. I don't know what happens when you agree; maybe they have you
>> log into their site and install malware, maybe they just charge you
>> for the login. I just don't know. You see, when the caller completed
>> his opening sentence, I said something very rude which may damage
>> international relations--and hung up. I use a Mac, and I won't touch
>> Windows with a vaccinated crowbar. (Personal choice.)
>>
>> Jim Plante
>>
>>
> Thanx for the info, Jim. They can expect the same response from me, if
> they call. I have Windows, but I seldom log in to it--I do almost all
> computing using PCLinuxOS.
>
> --doug
Exactly what was done to a good friend of mine, even as far as telling
her they are the national authority for all windows installations and
that she needs
to follow their instructions .... yara yara ...
Well, she was lucking she called me first.
She took the number they called her from and reported them to the local
FBI office.
She never heard from them again. So apparently some other similar outfit
has replaced them.
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Re: Sneak in Scam
Posted by Doug <dm...@optonline.net>.
On 08/18/2014 11:52 AM, James Plante wrote:
> It's a *telephone* scam, Doug. They call you, and tell you that there are problems with your Windows computer, and that they can repair them. I don't know what happens when you agree; maybe they have you log into their site and install malware, maybe they just charge you for the login. I just don't know. You see, when the caller completed his opening sentence, I said something very rude which may damage international relations--and hung up. I use a Mac, and I won't touch Windows with a vaccinated crowbar. (Personal choice.)
>
> Jim Plante
>
>
Thanx for the info, Jim. They can expect the same response from me, if
they call. I have Windows, but I seldom log in to it--I do almost all
computing using PCLinuxOS.
--doug
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Re: Sneak in Scam
Posted by James Plante <ji...@me.com>.
It's a *telephone* scam, Doug. They call you, and tell you that there are problems with your Windows computer, and that they can repair them. I don't know what happens when you agree; maybe they have you log into their site and install malware, maybe they just charge you for the login. I just don't know. You see, when the caller completed his opening sentence, I said something very rude which may damage international relations--and hung up. I use a Mac, and I won't touch Windows with a vaccinated crowbar. (Personal choice.)
Jim Plante
On Aug 18, 2014, at 10:47 AM, Doug <dm...@optonline.net> wrote:
>
> On 08/18/2014 09:44 AM, Vincent A. Juliano wrote:
>> I've had an indian company call me twice about my computer "Problems" and how they could fix them. Each time the explanation got "murky" as we went long. Each time I cancelled out. Unfortunately I do not remember the company name.
>>
>> On Aug 17, 2014, at 10:02 PM, carl wilson wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Sir/Madam
>>>
>>> There is an Indian based "Company" Techliveconnect that is using you as a
>>> means of convincing potential users that that they have major computer
>>> problems particularly when they download a piece of software called
>>> Driverdoctor. They appear to be a well organised scam with the charges going
>>> through a Dutch "company" called Avangate. Do you know of them
>>>
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> Have you considered that the email itself may be part of the scam, and if you answer it, you may be opening up yourself to some skullduggery?
>
> --doug
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Re: Sneak in Scam
Posted by Doug <dm...@optonline.net>.
On 08/18/2014 09:44 AM, Vincent A. Juliano wrote:
> I've had an indian company call me twice about my computer "Problems" and how they could fix them. Each time the explanation got "murky" as we went long. Each time I cancelled out. Unfortunately I do not remember the company name.
>
> On Aug 17, 2014, at 10:02 PM, carl wilson wrote:
>
>> Dear Sir/Madam
>>
>> There is an Indian based "Company" Techliveconnect that is using you as a
>> means of convincing potential users that that they have major computer
>> problems particularly when they download a piece of software called
>> Driverdoctor. They appear to be a well organised scam with the charges going
>> through a Dutch "company" called Avangate. Do you know of them
>>
>
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Have you considered that the email itself may be part of the scam, and
if you answer it, you may be opening up yourself to some skullduggery?
--doug
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Re: Sneak in Scam
Posted by Tony Gallas <to...@spin.net.au>.
They used to call us as well, always claiming to be from Microsoft. My
wife would always be the one to answer and would disconnect. I happened
to answer one day. I asked them which computer they were asking about.
"Your personal computer, the one you use" he replied. I said to him then
"This is a business, we've got about 30 computers. Which one has the
problem?" After some confused spluttering he disconnected, and we
haven't heard from him since!
On 18/08/2014 11:14 PM, Vincent A. Juliano wrote:
> I've had an indian company call me twice about my computer "Problems" and how they could fix them. Each time the explanation got "murky" as we went long. Each time I cancelled out. Unfortunately I do not remember the company name.
>
> On Aug 17, 2014, at 10:02 PM, carl wilson wrote:
>
>> Dear Sir/Madam
>>
>> There is an Indian based "Company" Techliveconnect that is using you as a
>> means of convincing potential users that that they have major computer
>> problems particularly when they download a piece of software called
>> Driverdoctor. They appear to be a well organised scam with the charges going
>> through a Dutch "company" called Avangate. Do you know of them
>>
>
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Re: Sneak in Scam
Posted by "Vincent A. Juliano" <vj...@optonline.net>.
I've had an indian company call me twice about my computer "Problems" and how they could fix them. Each time the explanation got "murky" as we went long. Each time I cancelled out. Unfortunately I do not remember the company name.
On Aug 17, 2014, at 10:02 PM, carl wilson wrote:
> Dear Sir/Madam
>
> There is an Indian based "Company" Techliveconnect that is using you as a
> means of convincing potential users that that they have major computer
> problems particularly when they download a piece of software called
> Driverdoctor. They appear to be a well organised scam with the charges going
> through a Dutch "company" called Avangate. Do you know of them
>
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Re: Sneak in Scam
Posted by Tony Gallas <to...@spin.net.au>.
Brian, that's a very likely explanation. I made the mistake many years
ago of clicking on the big green button. I can't remember now what I
got, but it installed something that caused me problems and it took a
while for me to realise what had happened. Once I did, I uninstalled the
offending software and have never toughed a big green button since.
On 19/08/2014 11:56 AM, Brian Barker wrote:
> At 08:14 19/08/2014 +0800, Carl Wilson wrote:
>> When you download open office it comes with an attached piece of
>> software called Driver Manager which is spyware, they do not claim to
>> be affiliated with Apache but they seem to have succeed in attaching
>> Driver Manager to your download.
>
> When people make suggestions such as this, they are normally dismissed
> with comments insisting that they simply must have downloaded
> OpenOffice from some unofficial source and thus obtained a
> contaminated product. (That hasn't happened this time so far, though.)
> May I make an alternative suggestion?
>
> When prospective users visit the official site and click on the
> download link, they are redirected to sourceforge.net. They need to
> wait a few second until the download begins, and even then they
> probably need to recognise their browser's warning bar requesting
> confirmation. They may not even know what to do with this at first.
> Meanwhile, they are presented with a Sourceforge page which generally
> advertises other possible free downloads. These advertisements usually
> contain a large green "Download" button.
>
> Surely it is quite likely that users will be distracted by a big green
> Download button and not, initially, notice some beige banner from
> their browser? They will click the big green button, understandably
> thinking that this will download the product they have come for: after
> all, this is still the official OpenOffice download site, isn't it?
> When they install the extra software along with OpenOffice, they will
> blame OpenOffice or - as here - remark that the rogue item has somehow
> infected the OpenOffice download.
>
> Note that DriverManager is indeed a program distributed by
> Sourceforge: see http://sourceforge.net/projects/drivermanager/ .
> There is suspiciously little information about it at the Sourceforge
> site.
>
> Should there be some explanation and warning on the OpenOffice web
> site immediately before the transfer to Sourceforge ("Don't touch the
> button!"?) to help potential users avoid this trap? Should those
> responding to complaints be aware of this likely cause of the problem
> and not so quick to dismiss the user as having used ill-advised
> alternative download sources?
>
> Is this what happened to the current user?
>
> Brian Barker
>
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Re: Sneak in Scam
Posted by James Plante <ji...@me.com>.
Because many data service providers interface *only* through Internet Explorer. That can be handled. But the VB code the services use won't run on Mac or Linux.
I'm a real estate appraiser and our local Multiple Listing Service uses a database/web application that runs only on IE. I've asked several times for just plain ascii access: Here's a map number, send me all the properties. He cannot do that, and his board won't let him change the software that they paid thousands for, and keep paying a high subscription fee for. I finally just cancelled my subscription and do things the old-fashioned way.
But mostly, I think using Windows is just a bad habit that's harder to quit than smoking.
Jim Plante
On Aug 19, 2014, at 9:57 AM, Doug <dm...@optonline.net> wrote:
> I wonder why more people don't just come to Linux?
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Re: Sneak in Scam
Posted by Doug <dm...@optonline.net>.
On 08/19/2014 05:13 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote:
/snip/
> Some non-SourceForge sites which come top of Google searches use a DownloadManager (or similar name) of about 34MB to download OpenOffice. Such sites, in my limited experience of investigating complaints on the en-Forum, always include unwanted add-ons, usually an intrusive and persistent toolbar and who knows what other nasties. Unfortunately one cannot unquestioningly accept the URLs reported by inexperienced computer users - they often report that they used their desired URL, not the actual URL used.
>
>
/snip/
That damned Download Manager crap is one of the reasons I avoid using
anything Windows. When I had to reinstall a Windows system not too long
ago, I went to
get Firefox, and sure enough, I got the Conduit virus, which is one
bitch to get rid of! I wonder why more people don't just come to Linux?
--doug
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Re: Sneak in Scam
Posted by Rory O'Farrell <of...@iol.ie>.
On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 10:45:15 +0200
Roberto Galoppini <ro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Morning all,
>
> Thanks Andrea for looping me in, in line comments.
>
>
> 2014-08-19 8:42 GMT+02:00 Andrea Pescetti <pe...@apache.org>:
>
> > Well, if this is the case then SourceForge committed to removing unwanted
> > ads. They have even setup a dedicated channel for reporting this kind of
> > situations. I'm including Roberto in the conversation (Roberto, see below
> > for context) since he already took action in a few other cases discussed on
> > the dev list.
> > Regards,
> > Andrea.
> >
> > On 19/08/2014 Brian Barker wrote:
> >
> >> At 08:14 19/08/2014 +0800, Carl Wilson wrote:
> >>
> >>> When you download open office it comes with an attached piece of
> >>> software called Driver Manager which is spyware, they do not claim to
> >>> be affiliated with Apache but they seem to have succeed in attaching
> >>> Driver Manager to your download.
> >>>
> >>
> >> When people make suggestions such as this, they are normally dismissed
> >> with comments insisting that they simply must have downloaded OpenOffice
> >> from some unofficial source and thus obtained a contaminated product.
> >> (That hasn't happened this time so far, though.) May I make an
> >> alternative suggestion?
> >>
> >> When prospective users visit the official site and click on the download
> >> link, they are redirected to sourceforge.net. They need to wait a few
> >> second until the download begins, and even then they probably need to
> >> recognise their browser's warning bar requesting confirmation. They may
> >> not even know what to do with this at first. Meanwhile, they are
> >> presented with a Sourceforge page which generally advertises other
> >> possible free downloads. These advertisements usually contain a large
> >> green "Download" button.
> >>
> >> Surely it is quite likely that users will be distracted by a big green
> >> Download button and not, initially, notice some beige banner from their
> >> browser? They will click the big green button, understandably thinking
> >> that this will download the product they have come for: after all, this
> >> is still the official OpenOffice download site, isn't it? When they
> >> install the extra software along with OpenOffice, they will blame
> >> OpenOffice or - as here - remark that the rogue item has somehow
> >> infected the OpenOffice download.
> >>
> >> Note that DriverManager is indeed a program distributed by Sourceforge:
> >> see http://sourceforge.net/projects/drivermanager/ . There is
> >> suspiciously little information about it at the Sourceforge site.
> >>
> >
>
> I'm not familiar with that project, but it has 0 files <
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/drivermanager/files/?source=navbar> and it
> has been downloaded 0 times <
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/drivermanager/files/stats/timeline?dates=2014-08-01+to+2014-08-19>,
> I guess that's not the program you're talking about.
>
> Having said that we are committed to remove all malicious ads that do not
> clearly state what are they about. All I need to remove those it's a
> screenshot of the download page with the misleading ads and the link to
> which such ads points to. Most of the times we are able to get rid of that
> in few hours, only over the week-end it could take longer.
>
> >From Italy as of now I'm seeing an ads about "LogMeIn", an Anti-Virus trial
> or an invitation to monetize your downloads. None of them seems ambiguous
> or misleading and I'm not able to get a "green button" anyhow. If you can
> would you please send an email to me or to blockthis@sourceforge.net?
>
> Thanks in advance and thanks for heads up.
>
> Roberto
Some non-SourceForge sites which come top of Google searches use a DownloadManager (or similar name) of about 34MB to download OpenOffice. Such sites, in my limited experience of investigating complaints on the en-Forum, always include unwanted add-ons, usually an intrusive and persistent toolbar and who knows what other nasties. Unfortunately one cannot unquestioningly accept the URLs reported by inexperienced computer users - they often report that they used their desired URL, not the actual URL used.
>
>
>
>
>
> >
> >> Should there be some explanation and warning on the OpenOffice web site
> >> immediately before the transfer to Sourceforge ("Don't touch the
> >> button!"?) to help potential users avoid this trap? Should those
> >> responding to complaints be aware of this likely cause of the problem
> >> and not so quick to dismiss the user as having used ill-advised
> >> alternative download sources?
> >>
> >> Is this what happened to the current user?
> >>
> >> Brian Barker
> >>
> >>
--
Rory O'Farrell <of...@iol.ie>
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Re: Sneak in Scam
Posted by Roberto Galoppini <ro...@gmail.com>.
Morning all,
Thanks Andrea for looping me in, in line comments.
2014-08-19 8:42 GMT+02:00 Andrea Pescetti <pe...@apache.org>:
> Well, if this is the case then SourceForge committed to removing unwanted
> ads. They have even setup a dedicated channel for reporting this kind of
> situations. I'm including Roberto in the conversation (Roberto, see below
> for context) since he already took action in a few other cases discussed on
> the dev list.
> Regards,
> Andrea.
>
> On 19/08/2014 Brian Barker wrote:
>
>> At 08:14 19/08/2014 +0800, Carl Wilson wrote:
>>
>>> When you download open office it comes with an attached piece of
>>> software called Driver Manager which is spyware, they do not claim to
>>> be affiliated with Apache but they seem to have succeed in attaching
>>> Driver Manager to your download.
>>>
>>
>> When people make suggestions such as this, they are normally dismissed
>> with comments insisting that they simply must have downloaded OpenOffice
>> from some unofficial source and thus obtained a contaminated product.
>> (That hasn't happened this time so far, though.) May I make an
>> alternative suggestion?
>>
>> When prospective users visit the official site and click on the download
>> link, they are redirected to sourceforge.net. They need to wait a few
>> second until the download begins, and even then they probably need to
>> recognise their browser's warning bar requesting confirmation. They may
>> not even know what to do with this at first. Meanwhile, they are
>> presented with a Sourceforge page which generally advertises other
>> possible free downloads. These advertisements usually contain a large
>> green "Download" button.
>>
>> Surely it is quite likely that users will be distracted by a big green
>> Download button and not, initially, notice some beige banner from their
>> browser? They will click the big green button, understandably thinking
>> that this will download the product they have come for: after all, this
>> is still the official OpenOffice download site, isn't it? When they
>> install the extra software along with OpenOffice, they will blame
>> OpenOffice or - as here - remark that the rogue item has somehow
>> infected the OpenOffice download.
>>
>> Note that DriverManager is indeed a program distributed by Sourceforge:
>> see http://sourceforge.net/projects/drivermanager/ . There is
>> suspiciously little information about it at the Sourceforge site.
>>
>
I'm not familiar with that project, but it has 0 files <
https://sourceforge.net/projects/drivermanager/files/?source=navbar> and it
has been downloaded 0 times <
https://sourceforge.net/projects/drivermanager/files/stats/timeline?dates=2014-08-01+to+2014-08-19>,
I guess that's not the program you're talking about.
Having said that we are committed to remove all malicious ads that do not
clearly state what are they about. All I need to remove those it's a
screenshot of the download page with the misleading ads and the link to
which such ads points to. Most of the times we are able to get rid of that
in few hours, only over the week-end it could take longer.
>From Italy as of now I'm seeing an ads about "LogMeIn", an Anti-Virus trial
or an invitation to monetize your downloads. None of them seems ambiguous
or misleading and I'm not able to get a "green button" anyhow. If you can
would you please send an email to me or to blockthis@sourceforge.net?
Thanks in advance and thanks for heads up.
Roberto
>
>> Should there be some explanation and warning on the OpenOffice web site
>> immediately before the transfer to Sourceforge ("Don't touch the
>> button!"?) to help potential users avoid this trap? Should those
>> responding to complaints be aware of this likely cause of the problem
>> and not so quick to dismiss the user as having used ill-advised
>> alternative download sources?
>>
>> Is this what happened to the current user?
>>
>> Brian Barker
>>
>>
Re: Sneak in Scam
Posted by Andrea Pescetti <pe...@apache.org>.
Well, if this is the case then SourceForge committed to removing
unwanted ads. They have even setup a dedicated channel for reporting
this kind of situations. I'm including Roberto in the conversation
(Roberto, see below for context) since he already took action in a few
other cases discussed on the dev list.
Regards,
Andrea.
On 19/08/2014 Brian Barker wrote:
> At 08:14 19/08/2014 +0800, Carl Wilson wrote:
>> When you download open office it comes with an attached piece of
>> software called Driver Manager which is spyware, they do not claim to
>> be affiliated with Apache but they seem to have succeed in attaching
>> Driver Manager to your download.
>
> When people make suggestions such as this, they are normally dismissed
> with comments insisting that they simply must have downloaded OpenOffice
> from some unofficial source and thus obtained a contaminated product.
> (That hasn't happened this time so far, though.) May I make an
> alternative suggestion?
>
> When prospective users visit the official site and click on the download
> link, they are redirected to sourceforge.net. They need to wait a few
> second until the download begins, and even then they probably need to
> recognise their browser's warning bar requesting confirmation. They may
> not even know what to do with this at first. Meanwhile, they are
> presented with a Sourceforge page which generally advertises other
> possible free downloads. These advertisements usually contain a large
> green "Download" button.
>
> Surely it is quite likely that users will be distracted by a big green
> Download button and not, initially, notice some beige banner from their
> browser? They will click the big green button, understandably thinking
> that this will download the product they have come for: after all, this
> is still the official OpenOffice download site, isn't it? When they
> install the extra software along with OpenOffice, they will blame
> OpenOffice or - as here - remark that the rogue item has somehow
> infected the OpenOffice download.
>
> Note that DriverManager is indeed a program distributed by Sourceforge:
> see http://sourceforge.net/projects/drivermanager/ . There is
> suspiciously little information about it at the Sourceforge site.
>
> Should there be some explanation and warning on the OpenOffice web site
> immediately before the transfer to Sourceforge ("Don't touch the
> button!"?) to help potential users avoid this trap? Should those
> responding to complaints be aware of this likely cause of the problem
> and not so quick to dismiss the user as having used ill-advised
> alternative download sources?
>
> Is this what happened to the current user?
>
> Brian Barker
>
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RE: Sneak in Scam
Posted by Brian Barker <b....@btinternet.com>.
At 08:14 19/08/2014 +0800, Carl Wilson wrote:
>When you download open office it comes with an attached piece of
>software called Driver Manager which is spyware, they do not claim
>to be affiliated with Apache but they seem to have succeed in
>attaching Driver Manager to your download.
When people make suggestions such as this, they are normally
dismissed with comments insisting that they simply must have
downloaded OpenOffice from some unofficial source and thus obtained a
contaminated product. (That hasn't happened this time so far,
though.) May I make an alternative suggestion?
When prospective users visit the official site and click on the
download link, they are redirected to sourceforge.net. They need to
wait a few second until the download begins, and even then they
probably need to recognise their browser's warning bar requesting
confirmation. They may not even know what to do with this at first.
Meanwhile, they are presented with a Sourceforge page which generally
advertises other possible free downloads. These advertisements
usually contain a large green "Download" button.
Surely it is quite likely that users will be distracted by a big
green Download button and not, initially, notice some beige banner
from their browser? They will click the big green button,
understandably thinking that this will download the product they have
come for: after all, this is still the official OpenOffice download
site, isn't it? When they install the extra software along with
OpenOffice, they will blame OpenOffice or - as here - remark that the
rogue item has somehow infected the OpenOffice download.
Note that DriverManager is indeed a program distributed by
Sourceforge: see http://sourceforge.net/projects/drivermanager/ .
There is suspiciously little information about it at the Sourceforge site.
Should there be some explanation and warning on the OpenOffice web
site immediately before the transfer to Sourceforge ("Don't touch the
button!"?) to help potential users avoid this trap? Should those
responding to complaints be aware of this likely cause of the problem
and not so quick to dismiss the user as having used ill-advised
alternative download sources?
Is this what happened to the current user?
Brian Barker
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RE: Sneak in Scam
Posted by carl wilson <wi...@iinet.net.au>.
Andrea
When you download open office it comes with an attached piece of software
called Driver Manager which is spyware, they do not claim to be affiliated
with Apache but they seem to have succeed in attaching Driver Manager to
your download.
Regards
Carl
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From: Andrea Pescetti [mailto:pescetti@apache.org]
Sent: Tuesday, 19 August 2014 5:26 AM
To: users@openoffice.apache.org
Cc: wilsoncj@iinet.net.au
Subject: Re: Sneak in Scam
On 18/08/2014 carl wilson wrote:
> There is an Indian based "Company" Techliveconnect that is using you
> as a means of convincing potential users that that they have major
> computer problems
In what way would they be "using" OpenOffice? Do they represent in some way
that they are affiliated with this project? If you let us know more details,
or you can provide evidence that they are using the OpenOffice trademarks
inappropriately, we can take action. That company is, clearly, not
affiliated with the OpenOffice project.
Regards,
Andrea. And then you get contacted by Techlive connect
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Re: Sneak in Scam
Posted by Andrea Pescetti <pe...@apache.org>.
On 18/08/2014 carl wilson wrote:
> There is an Indian based "Company" Techliveconnect that is using you as a
> means of convincing potential users that that they have major computer
> problems
In what way would they be "using" OpenOffice? Do they represent in some
way that they are affiliated with this project? If you let us know more
details, or you can provide evidence that they are using the OpenOffice
trademarks inappropriately, we can take action. That company is,
clearly, not affiliated with the OpenOffice project.
Regards,
Andrea.
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