Someone purchased the old domain of a FOSS app, then it's using it to deceive users to download adware

Moonrise2473@feddit.it to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world – 692 points –

One of those two sites is distributing adware. Which of them?

File Converter (FOSS) by Adrien Allard was hosted on file-converter[.]org since a decade. Then someone a few weeks ago snatched that domain and it's now distributing adware. Almost identical design for the page, 100% designed to deceive users to download a different product, as it's called Zamzar.

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If you contact the .org registry they'll take it down. .org is for non-profits

Is that really an enforced rule somewhere, or just one of those loose intentions from the early days of domain names?

If it is, it's news to me. I co-owned an education data consultancy (before realizing there was no money in education) that used a .org; we were for-profit.

Then they can just buy another domain under .Dev or .app

It's like playing whack a mole

If it used to be a valid website, and is now a scam, that’s a mole worth whacking - even if they’ll try again with a previously unknown url