Re: [squid-users] squidnt.com, warning

From: Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:40:35 +1300 (NZDT)

> On tor, 2008-10-16 at 17:01 +0100, Mr Lyphifco wrote:
>> It seems that the site http://squidnt.com/ is trying to masquerade as
>> an
>> official website for Mr Serassio's Windows port of Squid. It doesn't
>> explicitly state this, but the wording of the site contents strongly
>> implies
>> such a thing.
>>
>> Also it was entered into a new Wikipedia article on SquidNT as the
>> homepage:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=SquidNT&action=history
>>
>> I suspect blog-spam of some sort.
>
> I would agree. The site seems completely anonymous on who is behind the
> content, and I have never heard of the name who is registered as owner
> of the domain (additionally the domain owner is registered with an UK
> address but US phonenumber.. which is a bit odd but imho)
>
> But I do suspect the wikipedia user who created the wikipedia article is
> the the same. The wikipedia article was created before the first blog
> post (Wikipedia article created 19 July, first blog post is from 26
> July).
>
> I have added a warning comment on their download page.
>
> Regards
> Henrik
>

Which appears to have been moderated out of existence.
At least the three comments now present are all by 'admin' advertising
their downloads.

Amos
Received on Fri Oct 17 2008 - 01:40:38 MDT

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