At a minimum these guys are slightly abusing the trademarks. Otherwise it is a nicer version of openoffice.org website. Maybe we should forward them our update requests ;-) kidding because that could be wrong and illegal. INAL. Regards, Dave On Aug 15, 2012, at 10:00 AM, NoOp wrote: > On 08/02/2012 09:31 AM, Rob Weir wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 11:50 AM, David H. Lipman wrote: >>> From: "Anastasia Cher" >>> >>> >>>> Hello there, >>>> I didn't know where to email, so I decided to just email to you. I just >>>> want to tell that there is an issue, some website >>>> www.*openoffice*.fm/suitepretends that its you. When I googled Open >>>> Office it was the first website >>>> in research so I just clicked and downloaded what they offered. The say >>>> that it's an Open Office suit. When I finished and installed it, I had >>>> lots >>>> of bugs and staff but no office. So I don't know, but these guys are using >>>> your name for scam. >>> >>> >>> This is going on for numerous software from Adobe Reader to VLC Media >>> Player. >>> >> >> Right. This is how it seems to work: >> >> 1) They buy advertisements on Google and Bing and spam social >> networks, offering OpenOffice,Free Office and similar keywords. These >> lure users into going to their page. >> >> 2) The pick URL's and brand the site in a way that makes it look official. >> >> 3) To download OpenOffice you need to use their special "downloader" >> tool. The main purpose of the downloader tool is to install other >> unrelated applications onto your system. It may or may not then >> install OpenOffice. >> >> 4) These other applications are sponsored apps, meaning another >> company is paying for these applications to be promoted. That is the >> source of revenue for the websites that do this. >> >> I did a blog post on this: >> >> http://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/how_to_safely_download_apache >> >> Note: Users are not powerless. There are places to report such >> issues. Some are listed in the blog post. >> >> Regards, >> >> -Rob > ... > > That's your old buddies Tightrope Interactive... you know, the guys that > trademarked Openoffice (85298190) & then later abandoned it... > > Domain Information > Query: openoffice.fm > Status: Active > Created: 16 May 2011 15:38 PDT > Modified: 30 Jun 2012 23:55 PDT > Expires: 16 May 2013 15:33 PDT > Name Servers: > jean.ns.cloudflare.com > bob.ns.cloudflare.com > ... > Admin Contact: > Name: J et M J et M > Organisation: J et M > Address: > 268 Bush Street #3040 > San Francisco, CA 94104-3503 > US > Email Address: tech@jm-llc.com > Phone Number: +1.3212199160 > Fax Number: +1.11111111 > > (268 Bush Street #3040 is a UPS store) > > Domain Name: JM-LLC.COM > Registrar: GODADDY.COM, LLC > Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com > Referral URL: http://registrar.godaddy.com > Name Server: NS75.DOMAINCONTROL.COM > Name Server: NS76.DOMAINCONTROL.COM > > Administrative Contact: > J & M, J & M yifeng.zhang@tightropeinteractive.com > J & M > 268 Bush Street #3040 > San Francisco, California 94104-3503 > United States > (321) 219-9160 > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: ooo-users-unsubscribe@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: ooo-users-help@incubator.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: ooo-users-unsubscribe@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: ooo-users-help@incubator.apache.org