Re: People trying to make money on openoffice.org

Daniel Winje wrote:
> hi there, I just wanted to let you fine people over at openoffice.org to
> know that there are people out there trying to make money in your name.
> how do i know this? well i was sufring the net and looking for a new edition
> of openoffice when i i came over this site witch was telling you how good
> openoffice is and sutch (witch i allready know)
> and they posted a link to a download (by all means this is quite normal,
> witch was my thoughs at the time) so i klicked on the link and starte the
> download witch was described to be 141 mb but was only 665kb or something,
> odd..... then i scaned it for virus and sutch, all ok and then i opened it
> to find out that it was a downloader (never seen an openoffice downloader
> before) and my thought was oh well ok, this is new, so i klicked my way
> through it and then it asked me to send a text message to 1963 with the
> message MAP so that i would get a code to unlock the download.....
> Thing is that it costs you 40 kr (says so in the downloader) to send the
> message, about 4 € if 1€ = 10 kr (not sure at the moment). SOOOOO, what the
> fuck? hehe
> Could not see that you in any way had agreed to it, so i thought i would
> lett you know :)
>
> heres a link to the site: http://studio-no.net/openoffice.php
>
> its in norwegian sadly.
>
> any how,
> Thanks for your time.
> -Daniel Winje

Thanks for the information.  Will pass it on.

Andy
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