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keeska · 03-26-2013, 02:04 PM

Found something disturbing when I went to apprentice alf's site to download the updated.

Both of the links are deceptive - they do not go to the website shown by the text. They go to the kproxy.com site with some obfuscated path which I assume encodes the real web site.

Copying and pasting the URL text worked much better - it went directly to the zip file without the checkbox or the malware exe file.

I know kproxy is supposed to be an anonymous site but its use is not mentioned on afl's page. It is also interesting that going to the download site directly bypassed the checkbox and exe download. And since the actual web site is obfuscated it is hard to determine exactly where you are being redirected.

Just a heads up.

kees

03-26-2013, 02:04 PM	#43
keeska Connoisseur Posts: 59 Karma: 98 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Sedona, AZ Device: Sony T1, Nexus 7, Kindle Fire HD, Samsung Note 3	Bad links at the apprentice alf Found something disturbing when I went to apprentice alf's site to download the updated. Both of the links are deceptive - they do not go to the website shown by the text. They go to the kproxy.com site with some obfuscated path which I assume encodes the real web site. Copying and pasting the URL text worked much better - it went directly to the zip file without the checkbox or the malware exe file. I know kproxy is supposed to be an anonymous site but its use is not mentioned on afl's page. It is also interesting that going to the download site directly bypassed the checkbox and exe download. And since the actual web site is obfuscated it is hard to determine exactly where you are being redirected. Just a heads up. kees Last edited by keeska; 03-26-2013 at 02:13 PM. Reason: Correction