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Demonoid Resurrection Dismissed As Malware Was Legitimate

Posted by timothy on from the not-exactly-intuitive dept.

wo1verin3 writes "Previously reported on Slashdot was a story about a malware attempt masquerading itself as a Demonoid resurrection. It turns out this really was Demonoid making a comeback. With the site now back online with a new host, TorrentFreak caught up with its admins who tell us they have no malicious intent and simply want to bring a community back to together. While there is still uncertainty, one thing is absolutely clear – they do have the old Demonoid database."

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  1. A link to it by tebee · · Score: 5, Informative

    To save having to read the linked articles it's here http://www.d2.vu/

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    N.B. this user is far too lazy to write a witty and intelligent sig.
  2. Re: umm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Demonoid was/is an extremely popular torrent tracker that was shut down a while ago. There was always speculation that the site would return, as it had after past interruptions.
    Also, as it's a semi-private tracker, it doesn't gain much from "slashvertisements".

  3. Re:No Seeders anymore? by The+Rizz · · Score: 4, Informative

    Obviously not an expert but Demonoid was dead for so long who is still seeding these old files?

    Most torrents seed across multiple trackers and sites nowadays. Even if one site goes down, the same torrent may exist on dozens of other sites, and list the trackers for each of them.

  4. It's a trap? by collet · · Score: 5, Informative

    Maybe. From the old official IRC channel on p2p-network.net:

    "Topic for #demonoid is: OPEN REGS:UNKNOWN; SITE: DOWN; FORUM: DOWN; TRACKER: DOWN;| Welcome to #demonoid. | d2.vu is not demonoid, not run by demonoid admin or staff, and should not be supported. The site could be used to collect your usernames/passwords for their own use. Use at your own risk."

    1. Re:It's a trap? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      I agree, let's just say that there are members that never got that email about it being up. I wouldn't trust that they have the old db and most likely they are just phishing basically.

      It's the genuine database all right. I just logged in and all the details about my old account are there (including the good old up/dl ratio). I hope in the following weeks rare torrents will get seeded again. Not even pirate bay had the variety of rare torrents that demonoid had.

    2. Re:It's a trap? by EvilIdler · · Score: 4, Informative

      I had an account from 2005, and amazingly still remembered my password. Yep, it's the old DB. What sort of people are running the server is a whole different matter, though.

    3. Re:It's a trap? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      Because I entered the wrong password for my account first and it didn't let me in, then when I used the correct one it did. It also has the correct sign up date on my account profile.

  5. Re:Okaaaay... by PastTense · · Score: 3, Informative

    It' can happen on filesharing sites that advertisers have malware on their ads/sites--the firesharing site's administrators should check, but sometimes aren't very conscientious about it.

  6. Re:Okaaaay... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Hell, we were Europe's leading portal site for years back in 2002, and even we sometimes had malware in our ads!

    It's a tricky business, because you usually have deals with advertising companies who themselves deal with thousands of clients automatically. It is impossible to prevent all malware that way. And it is impossible to manage it all by hand. (It would cost more that the ads earn you.)

    Of course we banned those ads quickly when we found out. But it was really a pointless battle. Even if we'd have done it all manually, the ads still came from foreign servers... by the thousands... and were sometimes changeable after going live. (E.g. Flash ads are unpredictable because closed-source.)
    And we'd be gone bankrupt.

    Hey... we went bankrupt anyway. ;))

    So: Deal with it. Cause it's not going away. Malware in ads is to be expected. Always.