Re: [Rails-users] Any user had Malware on PC after Rails installation?

[Stefan F. <ste...@we...>]

Thanks for the link. I only google'd the malware's name and sourceforge 
and got no result.

That is really disturbing, please be assured Rails never gave any 
permission to Sourceforge to add anything like that to our download files.

How I understand the article sourceforge claims that they have stopped 
that practice.

Technically I doubt that it effects our zipped releases of Rails 1.x 
releases. Or are they converted to some exe-files on Windows OS?

Can anyone provide a MD5 checksum for Rails downloaded files on a 
Windows OS? Especially for the the current default (Rails-1.9.0 zip).

It might be easier to wrap some malware around the testing launch4j 
Rails-2.0-beta5.exe? Can someone provide me a MD5 checksum for a Windows 
download?

In any case another (good) reason to leave sourceforge for github as 
soon as possible.

Stefan



On 09/02/2015 12:29 PM, Anttoni Huhtala wrote:
> There have been some reports of added malware by sourceforge..
> http://www.howtogeek.com/218764/warning-don%E2%80%99t-download-software-from-sourceforge-if-you-can-help-it/
>
>
> Mayby a change of hosting is in order?
>
> 2.9.2015, 13:19, Stefan Frey kirjoitti:
>> To all Rails users:
>> there has been a recent user experience that after some time after
>> installing Rails a virus/malware was on his PC.
>>
>> The malware is called "PlaythruPlayer", more details can be found by
>> google.
>>
>> There is no reason to assume currently that Rails would install such a
>> virus/malware on any system, however I would like to know if any other
>> Rails user had the same experience.
>>
>> So far I have no information which Rails version and installation method
>> was used.
>>
>> Stefan
>>
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