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CoPaP / Avlis - dead / malware

Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 6:46 am
by rollory
Two issues.

1) navigating to avlis.org, or searching for it in google, gives malware warnings. This has been the case for at least a month. Was not the case 6 months ago.

2) the contact link at the bottom of the "General" section of links on the CoPaP home page gives a 404. (Which is why I'm making this post instead of trying to contact people directly)

Who's maintaining all this?

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 1:07 pm
by Themicles
CoPaP.org is not owned by nor maintained by the same people that own and maintain Avlis.org. The now defunct Contact page here is not the appropriate place to get a hold of Avlis staff. If you're concerned about a malware warning and don't want to try to contact Avlis staff at their website, you may try IRC. The best address to use for Stratics IRC these days is irc.gamers-irc.org and the channel to join would be #avlis.

I believe the staff@avlis.org e-mail address also should work.

FYI, I tested with Firefox, Chrome, and Internet Explorer with and without Avast's add-on running. None report anything to do with malware. You should run a virus scan yourself and verify that you don't have malware on your own computer attempting to redirect your connection to a hostile server, or insert hostile code into web pages you load.

Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2014 5:59 pm
by TripleAught
Thank you for letting us know about this. We haven't had any other complaints about this kind of warning to the Avlis site. I will monitor to see if anyone else has this issue, but right now like Themicles says, it would be a good idea to check your own computer.