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Re: Spurious "You have multiple copies of cygwin1.dll on your system."
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 05:46:45PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cygwin-talk-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor
>> Sent: 07 October 2004 17:23
>
>> On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 05:15:50PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>> ><koff> What was their IP? It's always nice to get one of
>> the suckers at
>> >their home address......
>>
>> 212.54.99.82 -- which is somewhere in Romania apparently.
>>
>> Their "browser" was something called "Offline Explorer",
>
>http://www.metaproducts.com/mp/mpProducts_Detail.asp?id=1
>
>Seems legit enough. They don't list any specific features for
>extracting email addresses or anything else that makes it sound like
>ratware.
There have been many other suspicious download attempts using what seems
to be non-suspicious software. When the offenders are blocked they
never complain.
The fact that the IP address does not resolve to anything is also
suspicious.
cgf