View Full Version : Important PandeGroup Announcement
Someone released a FaH installer across the P2P networks recently. Its disguised as warez, when installed it pretends to fail, and then is hidden while running in the background.
If you get friends/family/workmates with this problem the client is renamed win32.exe and is hidden in the windows directory.
See the official announcement by Vijay Pande here:
http://forum.folding-community.org/viewtopic.php?t=8213
Basically the affect clients will be ordered to sleep, and the culprit is having his account zeroed.
David
(Mod over at Folding Community)
ya this is also in the Nik over taking How? thread
Mr.Radar
06-09-04, 07:33 PM
Wow! Quick sad. Doing something like that has been discuessed here before (ranging from requiring FAH to register for the forums to writing a virus that installs it) but it's always been agreed that doing something like that will only hurt FAH and never help it.
DayUSeX
06-09-04, 07:41 PM
wow scum!!! It is really sad it has come down to this. I think tose persosn poitns should be removed from them and the team.
Sterculus
06-09-04, 07:43 PM
DayUSeX - he said that their points are being reset to zero.
I hope that it wasn't anyone on this team. Using methods like that to spread Folding is horrible. David, do you know if there is going to be any sort of legal action against the culprit?
SewerBeing
06-09-04, 07:57 PM
for the moral aspect, yeah its wrong and the person should be thrown in jail or sued. But he did provide the scientific community with an invaluable service, all those folded wus. So yes he should be punished, but at least it wasnt all bad. (no I am not encouraging his behavior, I am trying to look on the bright side)
DayUSeX
06-09-04, 10:35 PM
yeah the research is good, but how he wen tabout oding it is just horrible. What next oc-amd caugh distrbuting his fah throuhg aim!!! Just kidding, glad they were able to catch it asap.
DayUSeX - he said that their points are being reset to zero.
I hope that it wasn't anyone on this team. Using methods like that to spread Folding is horrible. David, do you know if there is going to be any sort of legal action against the culprit?
no it wasn't on this team
jimstandard
06-09-04, 11:48 PM
i always thought a good thing for the research but bad fo the community would be for someone to hack into like all the major computer manufacturers and install folding in whatever they use to mass install oses onto computers so that every comp dell would sell would have folding built into it
TheMightyBuck
06-10-04, 12:55 AM
people being tricked into having their computer folding for scientific research is horrible.
it's like ppl going to the doctor and being experimented on, when they think they are being treated for basic ailments.
this person is not folding for the science, but merely for the stats.
(that's why i'm doin' it)
there is no good to find in this scum folder, he gives all honest borgers (sounds like boogers, ,hahaha) a bad name.
hrdwrjnkie
06-10-04, 12:59 AM
The bad side of this is that it gives the project a bad name with the general public. I know that many times when attempting a borg I have been asked "well, is it spyware," or "is it safe/secure?" Things like this just make it tougher on us all. I think they should institute public flogging for things like this. Just my $.02
9mmCensor
06-10-04, 01:04 AM
People with such talent and dedication (or obsession), but no inteligence, annoy me.
I envy the first two qualities, but the third is unaccepable and untolerable.
Instead of having the points rendered null, i think instead, they should have been added to my account. :D
DayUSeX - he said that their points are being reset to zero.
I hope that it wasn't anyone on this team. Using methods like that to spread Folding is horrible. David, do you know if there is going to be any sort of legal action against the culprit?
Whether legal action is taken is up to the University's Legal Department.
Audioaficionado
06-10-04, 07:19 AM
His team was lucky not to have been zeroed too.
that would have been kinda unfair to the team if he was the onlly one who had actually done anything...
sautegod
06-10-04, 05:54 PM
Is this the first time this has happened???
If it is I'm kinda suprised. not that I agree with it but I always thought this would happen in the form of a virus.
its the first that i know of...
muddocktor
06-10-04, 09:25 PM
I've been involved with this project for 2 1/2 years and this is the first time I've ever heard about something like this happening. :(
And the WU's this @sshat's borgs did for the project didn't do any good at all; all they did was provide more suspicion instead of encouragement to folks about the Folding@Home project and DC projects in general. :mad:
I'd like to know which team he was on, to see if someone on their team was encouraging this kind of action. :temper:
Mr.Radar
06-10-04, 10:17 PM
He had no clue about what was happening (if you read through the threads linked in the "I'm passing.. how" thread). Someone (I think someone he knew) hid his installer in a fake warez installer as a prank but then it got leaked out onto the P2P networks and spread from there. However Jethroted (the person who all the clients were reporting as) tried to cover it up by saying he just got a huge company borg so that does place some suspicion on him. His team didn't know this was happening and didn't encourage this behavior.
muddocktor
06-10-04, 11:09 PM
Yeah, I just did a couple of hours of reading and to tell the truth, I don't know that he did this or a friend did this or what. It does look suspicious though, with him trying to cover up by claiming to be borging government computers.
matrixzen
06-11-04, 12:40 AM
I wonder which team the person folded for. I certainly hope it wasn't an OCFORUM TEAM32 member. :-/
He had no clue about what was happening (if you read through the threads linked in the "I'm passing.. how" thread). Someone (I think someone he knew) hid his installer in a fake warez installer as a prank but then it got leaked out onto the P2P networks and spread from there. However Jethroted (the person who all the clients were reporting as) tried to cover it up by saying he just got a huge company borg so that does place some suspicion on him. His team didn't know this was happening and didn't encourage this behavior.
This may not be entirely true, however i can't say any more because the full discussion is in the mods forum at the folding community forums.
Fast420A
06-11-04, 08:34 AM
I wonder which team the person folded for. I certainly hope it wasn't an OCFORUM TEAM32 member. :-/
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