Fighting Malicious Ads on Download Pages

[donho]

@Fitsneezy
Both convertfile.ai & gamesuniverse.co are blocked.
Thank you.

[Steve Bonds]

Still showing misleading download links:

Malicious link removed

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Malicious link removed

[PeterJones]

Instead of posting the actual links here – so that this forum becomes a honeypot for every webscraper and gets all these malicious downloads higher in search-engine rankings – could I suggest that people just email Don at the email address he’s already published in this discussion?

[donho]

@Steve-Bonds
Blocked, thank you.

@PeterJones
Sorry about the pollution with these scam links. I modified the 1st announce and I’ve removed some malicious links in this thread. Feel free to remove the rest if you judge necessary.

[water hearwater]

Malicious link treated & removed

[gaberilde]

More Malicious adds on the download page again here are the links

THE FOLLOWING LINKS BELOW ARE MALICIOUS:

https://wavebrowserpro.com/install
https://wavebrowserpro.com/blue-install

[PeterJones]

Future Posters: remember, it is better to e-mail Don directly with malicious links, rather than to post them here

[gaberilde]

@PeterJones no problem

[MichellesCode]

The image that I am seeing. I wasnt able to get the URLs, apologies. I am based in US.

[donho]

@MichellesCode

The image that I am seeing. I wasnt able to get the URLs, apologies. I am based in US.

If you happen to see them again, please send the link(s) to don.h@free.fr.

[Jay Burstin]

In my opinion it is confusing to write “See malicious ads here? Help us remove them!” right under the legitimate download button. Especially for users using an adblocker, it makes it very hard to know whether the green download button is legitimate

Can I suggest either moving it (perhaps next to the “Advertising:” text) or changing it to say “The above download button is legitimate. If you see malicious ads on this site, please help us remove them!” (with “help us remove them!” hyperlinked)?

[MarcCMcC]

There are definitely still giant, green “Download” button ads:

npm i @minecraft/ server

[PeterJones]

@MarcCMcC said in Fighting Malicious Ads on Download Pages:

There are definitely still giant, green “Download” button ads:

Posting screenshots here isn’t helpful, at this point.

And it is better if you just email the malicious links directly to don.h@free.fr , as has been said repeatedly in this discussion.

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I am locking this thread, as there isn’t anything new to say about this topic

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If you came here to report a malicious/dangerous download link (and NOTE: not all ads with “download” are malicious or dangerous), then

e-mail the URLs for malicious or dangerous advertising links on that page directly to don.h@free.fr