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I just stay completely away from anything other than the original source fo=
r the software in question. Find the project home page and download from th=
ere.

-Pete

On Nov 8, 2013, at 12:53 PM, Eoin Ross <ERoss@chemstation.com> wrote:

> Tucows got me this week - I missed one of the options in their downloader=
 that may have prevented a homepage/search hijacker.
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> MS security essentials caught some of the hijack.
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> Tucows added to the 'no download' list. Cnet got there a long time ago.
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> -----Original message-----
> From: Peter <plpeter2006@yahoo.com>
> To: "piclist@mit.edu" <piclist@mit.edu>
> Sent: Fri, 08 Nov 2013, 19:49:57 GMT+00:00
> Subject: Re: [EE] I Got burned by PSpice
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> Lindy Mayfield <Lindy.Mayfield <at> sas.com> writes:
>> So I found PSpice Student 9.1 Student version from softronic (google wil=
l
>> bring it first), thinking that my ...
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> Careful with sourceforge. Sf started 'capitalizing' on a 'downloader'. To=
day
> I read that the gimp project pulled the windows .exe version of their
> software from sourceforge for that reason, lots of downloader complaints
> about undesirable bundled malware. Don't trust anything blindly, or you w=
ill
> be had. At least the nsa seems to spy in a non obnoxious way.
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