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[Rails-devel] Any user had Malware on PC after Rails installation?

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

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

Re: [Rails-devel] [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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[Rails-devel] I want to be part of the progaming team

[<ra...@ol...>]

Hey!

I want to join your programing team.

Some words to introduce myself:
I am 44 years and currently working as a software developer in Sweden and Germany. I worked so far with C# .net, VBA and several databases. Now I would like to learn Java. Fist steps are alrerady made, so I know that Java is quite similar to C# so it should't be so difficult for me to get in the language. Therefore I thought that programing rails would be not only suitable for me but also fascinating.
I don't think that I can be a great help for fixing the version 2.0, but for 2.2. or later it's more realistic.

In the 80's I bought me first 18xx boardgame: 1830 and since then it's me favorite game. For some years ago I found your rails software and it is always a pleasure to play it. But something is missing: The possibility of computer opponents: the AI. This is what I would like to do, but this idea is surely not carved in stone. I'm open for your suggestion how I can be usefull for how in order to bring the program forward.

So if you like that I join the team I need some starting informations like:
> How can I get access to (and where is it) the actual coding
> Some instructions about how you like the documentation



Best regards,
Andre

Re: [Rails-devel] I want to be part of the progaming team

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

Andre:
welcome to Rails development.

What is the best way to start:

* For Rails I use Eclipse as IDE (e.g. download the latest Eclipse IDE 
for Java Developers), however IntelliJ or Netbeans might work as well

* The current minimum Java version is 1.6, so please do not use Java 8 
constructs (e.g. lambdas etc.)

* Checkout the code from the git repo on sourceforge (either inside 
eclipse or from git on the command line), currently the repo on 
sourceforge is still the leading one, but I update the copy on github 
after each release

* The main development branch for Rails 2.0 is rails_2_develop

* A wiki about Rails development has been started on github 
(https://github.com/freystef/Rails/wiki). There was one as well on 
sourceforge, however it got lost as sourceforge discontinued the wiki 
software. :-(

* The repo contains all required libraries, that are used by Rails.

* Rails should built itself automatically inside Eclipse, thus you can 
run it directly. The main class to start is net.sf.rails.util.RunGame

* For packaging I use gradle, however this is only required for official 
releases.

* There are unit tests for the state package and we have automated test 
games

* Main game packages are net.sf.rails.game for the game engine and 
net.sf.rails.ui.swing for the GUI.

* Documentation: Best documentation is the code itself: Thus try to 
create code that is readable (e.g. by choosing sensible variable and 
method names), followed by Javadoc comments, inside code comments should 
focus on WHY the code does this, not WHAT does the code do.

Major next steps are refactoring the Round classes, a replacement of the 
TileDesigner for the creation of tiles, replacing the Java serialization 
by json for saving actions and using those json action for real-time play.

Other things to do are bug-fixes on existing code and games and working 
on the implementation of new 18xx games.

Stefan



On 09/03/2015 01:50 PM, ra...@ol... wrote:
> Hey!
>
> I want to join your programing team.
>
> Some words to introduce myself:
> I am 44 years and currently working as a software developer in Sweden
> and Germany. I worked so far with C# .net, VBA and several databases.
> Now I would like to learn Java. Fist steps are alrerady made, so I know
> that Java is quite similar to C# so it should't be so difficult for me
> to get in the language. Therefore I thought that programing rails would
> be not only suitable for me but also fascinating.
> I don't think that I can be a great help for fixing the version 2.0, but
> for 2.2. or later it's more realistic.
>
> In the 80's I bought me first 18xx boardgame: 1830 and since then it's
> me favorite game. For some years ago I found your rails software and it
> is always a pleasure to play it. But something is missing: The
> possibility of computer opponents: the AI. This is what I would like to
> do, but this idea is surely not carved in stone. I'm open for your
> suggestion how I can be usefull for how in order to bring the program
> forward.
>
> So if you like that I join the team I need some starting informations like:
>  > How can I get access to (and where is it) the actual coding
>  > Some instructions about how you like the documentation
>
>
>
> Best regards,
> Andre
>
>
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Re: [Rails-devel] [Rails-users] Any user had Malware on PC after Rails installation?

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

Hi Dave (and everyone else),

the current state of the mal-/ad-ware incident is the following: I asked 
the person who reported the infect to search for any Rails files on his 
system (download or installed files). In fact there were no Rails files 
to find.

So it is not clear that the (intended) download was the causal reason 
for the infection. Until now no one else reported a similar experience.

In addition I am pretty convinced that the installation files of Rails 
itself do not carry anything malicious.

However keep your browser updated and protected and make sure that you 
really download the rails installation files and not something else. I 
have no-script and ad-blocker installed for my browser, so I do not know 
if the sourceforge and/or its mirrors display ads close to the download 
links.

I will add download links for RC1 on github tomorrow for those who are 
still wary of sourceforge and post them here.

Thanks for asking,

Stefan


On 09/10/2015 07:40 PM, Dave Berry wrote:
> Hi Stefan,
>
> Has this malware issue been resolved?
>
> I'd like to install the 2.0 RC but I'm a bit wary based on this report.
>
> Dave.
>
> On 02/09/2015 12:47, Stefan Frey wrote:
>> 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
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Monitor Your Dynamic Infrastructure at Any Scale With Datadog!
>>>> Get real-time metrics from all of your servers, apps and tools
>>>> in one place.
>>>> SourceForge users - Click here to start your Free Trial of Datadog now!
>>>> http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=241902991&iu=/4140
>>>> _______________________________________________
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>>>> Rai...@li...
>>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rails-users
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>