Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Beware: fake web site at: http://www.etheral.com/

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From: Tim Potter <tpot@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 11:37:40 +1000
On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 02:54 +0200, Sebastien Raveau wrote:
> On Friday 16 September 2005 02:48, Ulf Lamping wrote:
> > Hi List!
> >
> > Just noted, that someone has installed a fake Ethereal site at (don't
> > know for how long it's online): http://www.etheral.com/
> >
> > It has links as: Download Ethereal, Network Analyzer, Sniffer, ...
> 
> ... and a lot of popups.

It doesn't look malicious though, just trying to attract click-throughs
to advertisements.

I would be worried if it provided actual downloads with trojan binaries
or something like that.


Tim.

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