"~BD~" <~BD~@nomail.afraid.org> wrote in message
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> Mike Easter wrote:
>
>> The file is from MS.
>
> How do you *KNOW* that? Serious question regarding that particular link.
>
>> People trust MS to not provide malicious executables.
>
> They do! What better domain to choose to fool folk?!!!
>
> Quote:
>
> A Spoofed URL describes one website that poses as another. It sometimes applies a
> mechanism that exploits bugs in web browser technology, allowing a malicious
> computer attack. Such attacks are most effective against computers that lack
> recent security patches. Others are designed for the purpose of a parody.
>
> During such an attack, a computer user innocently visits a web site and sees a
> familiar URL in the address bar such as http://www.wikipedia.org but is, in
> reality, sending information to an entirely different location that would
> typically be monitored by an information thief. When sensitive information is
> requested by a fraudulent website, it is called phishing.
>
> The user is typically enticed to the false website from an email or a hyperlink
> from another website.
>
> In another variation, a website may look like the original, but is in fact a
> parody of it. These are mostly harmless, and are more noticeably different from
> the original, as they usually do not exploit bugs in web browser technology.
>
> This can also take place in a hosts file. It can redirect a site(s) to another IP,
> which could be a spoofed website.
>
> Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_spoofing


BD

It is a legitimate site and period. You are purposely looking for trouble where
there is none
The site is in Portuguese and is from MS. What is more dangerous is opening links
that are from Tiny URL or from tinypic as you posted. Nobody knows what they are
opening with those. Smart people do not open those links because the can contain an
infector or malware. It is like a Russian Roulette opening those type of links.

Now back to your paranoid issue.

Take the link below which you have posted and open it and go to the box in the
Quick Details where it say's English and click on the little arrow and select
Portuguese (Portugal) or Portuguese (Brazil) and then hit the Change button.
You nom have arrived at your PARANOID page that you are blowing hot air in the
direction of where the wind is coming from. Back in your face comes the crap that
comes out of your mouth with every breath that you are trying to exhale.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/e...displaylang=en

PARANOID,PARANOID and PARANOID you are

Get a life already and stop making a fool of yourself continuously.

--
Peter
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