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Demonoid Resurrection Dismissed As Malware Was Legitimate
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."
Then keep using Demonoid and other public trackers. Mostly only applicable to the US and a couple other countries (germany/japan come to mind)
WTF is Demonoid resurrection? And why did Slashdot editors not recognize TWO slashvertisments (or "viral ads" or whatever you want to call it) in a row?
God is perfectly just. I talk with Him. You scheming is being punished, retard. ... made into justice.
Denying me my glory is
God says...
5:8 They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines
unto them, and said, What shall we do with the ark of the God of
Israel? And they answered, Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried
about unto Gath. And they carried the ark of the God of Israel about
thither.
5:9 And it was so, that, after they had carried it about, the hand of
the LORD was against the city with a very great destruction: and he
smote the men of the city, both small and great, and they had emerods
in their secret parts.
5:10 Therefore they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And it came to pass,
as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying,
They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel to us, to slay us
and our people.
To save having to read the linked articles it's here http://www.d2.vu/
N.B. this user is far too lazy to write a witty and intelligent sig.
Obviously not an expert but Demonoid was dead for so long who is still seeding these old files?
Isn't this ressurrection almost totaly D.O.A.?
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."
So the Demonoid that was distributing malware was not a fake... so the admins really were sending malicious code to people in an effort to "bring a community back to together"?
And now they want people to trust them?
HOW ABU HASAN BRAKE WIND.
They recount that in the City KaukabÃn of Al-Yaman there was a man of the Fazlà tribe who had left Badawi life, and become a townsman for many years and was a merchant of the most opulent merchants. His wife had deceased when both were young; and his friends were instant with him to marry again, ever quoting to him the words of the poet,
"Go, gossip! re-wed thee, for Prime draweth near:
A wife is an almanac--good for the year."
So being weary of contention, Abu Hasan entered into negotiations with the old women who procure matches, and married a maid like Canopus when he hangeth over the seas of Al-Hind. He made high festival therefor, bidding to the wedding banquet kith and kin, Olema and Fakirs; friends and foes and all his acquaintances of that countryside. The whole house was thrown open to feasting: there were rices of five several colours, and sherbets of as many more; and kids stuffed with walnuts and almonds and pistachios and a camel colt roasted whole. So they ate and drank and made mirth and merriment; and the bride was displayed in her seven dresses and one more, to the women, who could not take their eyes off her. At last, the bridegroom was summoned to the chamber where she sat enthroned; and he rose slowly and with dignity from his divan; but in so doing, for that he was over full of meat and drink, lo and behold! he let fly a fart, great and terrible. Thereupon each guest turned to his neighbour and talked aloud and made as though he had heard nothing, fearing for his life. But a consuming fire was lit in Abu Hasan's heart; so he pretended a call of nature; and, in lieu of seeking the bride chamber, he went down to the house court and saddled his mare and rode off, weeping bitterly, through the shadow of the night. In time he reached LÃhej where he found a ship ready to sail for India; so he shipped on board and made Calicut of Malabar. Here he met with many Arabs, especially HazramÃs, who recommended him to the King; and this King (who was a Kafir) trusted him and advanced him to the captainship of his body guard. He remained ten years in all solace and delight of life; at the end of which time he was seized with home sickness; and the longing to behold his native land was that of a lover pining for his beloved; and he came near to die of yearning desire. But his appointed day had not dawned; so, after taking the first bath of health, he left the King without leave, and in due course landed at Makallà of Hazramaut. Here he donned the rags of a religious; and, keeping his name and case secret, fared for Kaukaban afoot; enduring a thousand hardships of hunger, thirst and fatigue; and braving a thousand dangers from the lion, the snake and the Ghul. But when he drew near his old home, he looked down upon it from the hills with brimming eyes, and said in himself, "Haply they might know thee; so I will wander about the outskirts, and hearken to the folk. Allah grant that my case be not remembered by them!" He listened carefully for seven nights and seven days, till it so chanced that, as he was sitting at the door of a hut, he heard the voice of a young girl saying, "O my mother, tell me the day when I was born; for such an one of my companions is about to take an omen for me." And the mother answered, "Thou was born, O my daughter, on the very night when Abu Hasan farted." Now the listener no sooner heard these words than he rose up from the bench, and fled away saying to himself, "Verily thy fart hath become a date, which shall last for ever and ever; even as the poet said,
'As long as palms shall shift the flower;
As long as palms shall sift the flour.'
And he ceased not travelling and voyaging and returned to India; and there abode in self exile till he died; and the mercy of Allah be upon him!
/. Has become officially retarded.... I am done with it now...
"That's right...I said it."
We need to embrace public key cryptography.
I interpretted this as:
The demonoid resurrection was dismissed
because
the malware was legitimate.
Even after reading the summary I was stilll completely lost for about 5 more passes.
Please write your headlines more clearly.
I just tried it. I had a username and password not used anywhere else so even a scam site wouldn't find it of any use. As soon as I logged in to the new site I was phished. I was notified (and it was blocked) by TrafficLight, a very useful program for spotting phishing attempts. This new Demonoid site is most definitely a scam site and they've obtained the whole of old Demonoid. Only governments and a few mafia-like organizations could have pulled this off. Stay away.
What the fuck does "as soon as I logged in I was phished" mean? Do you even fucking understand what "phishing" means? How do you even decide you've been phished if this is your only place with this user and pass? (well, no, last one might get you a notice for failed attempt to log in to your mail box, though I don't think I've seen those from many services)
tl;dr: parent's seemingly shilling for some shitty "very useful program", Go away and come with proper MyCleanPC success story.
All this "is it real" crap could have been avoided with a single, PGP-signed message.
Colin Dean Go a year without DRM
It's real. I followed another poster's instruction to use the 'lost pass' link right away and got a new one instead of using any old info and it is my real account from before the troubles. Demonoid IS back!
Request a password reset. The password reset form requires only a valid username to be entered, and the email address associated with it will receive an option to reset the password.
Don't be naive, folks.