Re: [anjuta-devel] is http://www.gimpshop.com/ genuine

[Jens Georg <mail jensge org>]

On Do, 2012-11-22 at 01:52 +0100, tower rowet wrote:
> dear
> i was very impressed about GIMP in youtube so i decided to download
> the software, the site i came across was http://www.gimpshop.com/.
> afterdownloading i realized that it was not even 2mb ofcourse i
> surprised such great software with this smal size. while installing my
> viruse scanner AVG stoped the instalation. i checked de downloaded
> software with https://www.virustotal.com/ and there were other virus
> scanners who found GIMPSHOP as APPL/InstallIQ.Gen5 ,
>  Trojan.Win32.Heur.098, Adware.W3i.9, a variant of Win32/InstallIQ,
> Riskware/InstallIQ and so on. in de mentioned site they refere the
> manufacturer's website. as ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.8/.
> aftergoogling a lot i saw your site
> http://www.gimp.org/mail_lists.html and after downloading GIMP i saw
> it is 15.8 mb.

I don't know how you ended up on this list (which has nothing to do with
GIMP) after being on that webpage, but well. 

> question: is http://www.gimpshop.com an official site for your
> software. do you know anything about this site and the GIMP that the
> advertise?

Talking to one of gimp's maintainers, this site is not official, on top
of that it's either hacked or explicitly set up with the intent of
spreading malware.

The semi-official windows version of GIMP is available at
http://gimp-win32.sourcefourge.net which is also linked from gimp's
website.