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Paranoid checking downloading setup.exe...?


Dear <webmaster@cygwin.com>:

Clicking on the red link to download setup.exe off of the main www.cygwin.com page results in the following nastygram:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD><TITLE>sources.redhat.com</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<div align="center">
<a href="/"><img src="/img/topbar-standalone.png" alt="" border=0></a>
</div>

<h1>Spambot detected.</h1>

<p>Hi, your web browser has triggered our spambot detection mechanism.
A spambot is a computer program designed to scoop up e-mail addresses
and bombard them with unsolicited advertisements.

<p>If we made a mistake, and you really are a human being, we apologize
profusely.  It just happens that your browser looks VERY similar to a
known spambot.  Please try using a different browser and you should have
no problem connecting to the site.

<p>
Have a good day (and die, spambots, die)


</BODY> </HTML>

...from a referral to a badspammer-001.html URL apparently at sources.redhat.com...? My user-agent string appears to be:

"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511"

...according to what I get when I hit my own apache-2 webserver. Is this enough information for someone to fix this issue, or would it help if I did a tcpdump of the connection?

Thanks,
--
-Chuck

PS: I have BCC'ed webmaster@ on this, please CC: me but keep any discussion just on the main cygwin list rather than forcing webmaster to read an entire thread rather than just a single message as an alert.


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