[CoLoCo] fake openoffice sites?

[Jim Hutchinson]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Andrew <keen101 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Today my dad wanted to try openoffice. He was on a xp machine, and searched
> "openoffice" in Google.
>
> He clicked on the first link which was a sponsored ad. Instead of going to
> openoffice.org it went to a site called "http://openoffice.org-suite.com".
> Which by the way looked very authentic actually. But, for one reason or
> another i got suspicious. Then i noticed that it wasn't even the official
> openoffice.org site. Good thing i am very cautious. Just for fun i went
> back to look at it a little more later. Number one i noticed that in
> Internet explorer it displays a general look with authentic graphics. While
> when in firefox (only in windows) it has different graphics (better), and
> even a windows vista compatible icon. On my Ubuntu machine with firefox it
> only displayed the general look. May i also note that in firefox my WOT
> addon immediatly flagged the site as untrusted and with a bad rating.


I blame MS. They have created a world of computer users who think it's
normal to have register, sign up, join, pay, etc. in order to use software.
So much of that software is suspect. I find it highly suspect that they
require personal info and a membership in order to download free software. I
know the GPL doesn't exclude this but I think savvy users would be wary. No
so your average windows user.

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Jim (Ubuntu geek extraordinaire)
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