On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 6:53 PM, Ish Sookun <ish_at_hacklog.in> wrote:
> On 06/20/2015 10:34 PM, Loganaden Velvindron wrote:
>>
>>
>> The average Mauritian who has a windows PC does not know what is Java
>> :) In fact, A lot of people told me that they didn't install Java, and
>> had the ask toolbar in their browsers :)
>>
>
> Java-applet support in browsers used to be a prerequisite during the
> pre-instant-messengers era; that is when online chats happened through Java
> based apps in browsers.
>
> These days an online tool like a Youtube video downloader would also require
> Java.
The average user does not download videos from youtube, they stream
it. Again, you're looking at "beyond" average skills here. What is
important, is that there are so many ask toolbar out there in
Mauritius, that it's generating more traffic than sites like
orange.mu, xvideos.com :)
>
> Besides Ask.com appears to be strong through its Ask Partner Network.
> Symantec[1] also is in that network and includes the toolbar in its
> products.
>
> Symantec is reputed as an anti-virus company. Can we say it distributes
> malware in its products?
>
> [1] http://www.symantec.com/about/news/release/article.jsp?prid=20090203_01
Interesting to see that virustotal is flagging the files :)
https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/c2bfb09de61715f7b24fb008d97bd90d50fd579ede28702c2a208b07c8e50150/analysis/
>
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Ish Sookun
>
> - Geek by birth, Linux by choice.
> - I blog at HACKLOG.in.
>
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Received on Sat Jun 20 2015 - 19:54:13 PST