Is this suspicious?
James Finstrom
jfinstrom at rhinoequipment.com
Thu Apr 1 13:38:53 MST 2010
I sent section 6 of the GPLv3 to cleanmeapp at hotmail.com requesting source...
we shall see what if any response I get... I did find him on google code but
only compiled binaries.
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Tuna <tuna at supertunaman.com> wrote:
> Excerpts from James Finstrom's message of Thu Apr 01 10:41:26 -0700 2010:
> > Looking it over I do have issues but not with the domain.
> >
> > Author is a "handle"
> > Software distributed under GPL V3 but no source!
> >
> None in sight. I ran the installer in Wine just to see what would happen.
> It installed, still no source. That by itself sends up red flags. Although
> Softpedia says it has no malware.
>
> http://www.softpedia.com/progClean/CleanMe-Clean-151081.html
>
> Does anyone know what their testing involves?
>
> Also, on this guy's "About page":
>
> "For Download Sites: You are free to publish this application but the
> download link must be to my hompage or ask for permission."
>
> I guess he just doesn't get it.
>
> > I will do some digging
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:35 AM, James Finstrom <
> > jfinstrom at rhinoequipment.com> wrote:
> >
> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.tk
> > >
> > > On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Dazed_75 <lthielster at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Appscout had an article about a "new" cleanup program for windows.
> The
> > >> article pointed to http://www.cleanme.tk/ for downloading it. But I
> was
> > >> leary of the TLD so did some checking. This looks suspicious to me.
> Am I
> > >> right? Or overcautious?
> > >>
> > >> larry at triggerfish:~$ whois cleanme.tk
> > >>>
> > >>> Rights restricted by copyright. See
> > >>> http://www.dot.tk/en/pageF00.html
> > >>>
> > >>> Domain name:
> > >>> CLEANME.TK
> > >>>
> > >>> Organisation:
> > >>> BV Dot TK
> > >>> Dot TK administrator
> > >>> P.O. Box 11774
> > >>> 1001 GT Amsterdam
> > >>> Netherlands
> > >>> Phone: +31 20 5315725
> > >>> Fax: +31 20 5315721
> > >>> E-mail: abuse: abuse at dot.tk, copyright infringement:
> > >>> copyright at dot.tk
> > >>>
> > >>> Domain Nameservers:
> > >>> NS01.DOT.TK
> > >>> NS02.DOT.TK
> > >>> NS03.DOT.TK
> > >>> NS04.DOT.TK
> > >>>
> > >>> Your selected domain name is a Free Domain. That means that,
> > >>> according to the terms and conditions of Free Domain domain names
> > >>> the registrant is BV Dot TK in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
> > >>>
> > >>> Due to restrictions in Dot TK's Privacy Statement personal
> information
> > >>> about the user of the domain name cannot be released.
> > >>>
> > >>> ABUSE OF A DOMAIN NAME
> > >>> If you want to report abuse of this domain name, please send a
> > >>> detailed email with your complaint to abuse at dot.tk.
> > >>> In most cases Dot TK responds to abuse complaints within one
> business
> > >>> day.
> > >>>
> > >>> COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT
> > >>> If you want to report a case of copyright infringement, please
> send
> > >>> an email to copyright at dot.tk, and include the full name and
> address
> > >>> of
> > >>> your organization. Within 5 business days copyright infringement
> > >>> notices
> > >>> will be investigated.
> > >>>
> > >>> Record maintained by: Dot TK Domain Registry
> > >>>
> > >>> larry at triggerfish:~$ dig cleanme.tk
> > >>>
> > >>> ; <<>> DiG 9.6.1-P2 <<>> cleanme.tk
> > >>> ;; global options: +cmd
> > >>> ;; Got answer:
> > >>> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 34012
> > >>> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 7, ADDITIONAL: 0
> > >>>
> > >>> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> > >>> ;cleanme.tk. IN A
> > >>>
> > >>> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> > >>> cleanme.tk. 300 IN A 94.103.151.195
> > >>> cleanme.tk. 300 IN A 193.33.61.2
> > >>> cleanme.tk. 300 IN A 209.172.59.196
> > >>> cleanme.tk. 300 IN A 217.119.57.22
> > >>>
> > >>> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> > >>> tk. 12242 IN NS ROOT-F.TALOHA.tk.
> > >>> tk. 12242 IN NS ROOT-D.TALOHA.tk.
> > >>> tk. 12242 IN NS ROOT-G.TALOHA.tk.
> > >>> tk. 12242 IN NS ROOT-E.TALOHA.tk.
> > >>> tk. 12242 IN NS ROOT-A.TALOHA.tk.
> > >>> tk. 12242 IN NS ROOT-C.TALOHA.tk.
> > >>> tk. 12242 IN NS ROOT-B.TALOHA.tk.
> > >>>
> > >>> ;; Query time: 120 msec
> > >>> ;; SERVER: 192.168.1.1#53(192.168.1.1)
> > >>> ;; WHEN: Thu Apr 1 10:12:01 2010
> > >>> ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 246
> > >>>
> > >>> larry at triggerfish:~$
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry
> > >>
> > >> The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain
> > >> occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.
> > >> - Thomas Jefferson
> > >>
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> > > --
> > > James Finstrom
> > > Rhino Equipment Corp.
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