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Download site blocked due to malware

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2016 2:40 pm
by rp42
The corporate firewall here is blocking http://downloads.codelite.org/downloads.php?osx_gh because it is considered to be malware.

The system is using Senderbase to determine this, and the site has a "poor" reputation there:
https://www.senderbase.org/lookup/?sear ... nloads.php

Has the download site been infected with some malware, or is Codelite itself somehow considered malware by this system?

I guess I can build from source instead, but that might take a while.

Re: Download site blocked due to malware

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2016 3:34 pm
by eranif
rp42 wrote:The corporate firewall here is blocking http://downloads.codelite.org/downloads.php?osx_gh because it is considered to be malware.
In general, I don't trust all these "firewall" technologies trying to be smarter than the average person, so the feeling is mutual ;)
rp42 wrote:The system is using Senderbase to determine this, and the site has a "poor" reputation there:
https://www.senderbase.org/lookup/?sear ... nloads.php
Never heard of them, I don't know how they decide which website is poor and which is OK and I really don't care about it.
Has the download site been infected with some malware, or is Codelite itself somehow considered malware by this system?
No malware in CodeLite

Strange, but this URL:
http://codelite.org/downloads/downloads.php?osx_weekly is OK

while this:
http://downloads.codelite.org/downloads.php?osx_weekly is NOT OK

NOTE:
they are both the same URL (the latter is using Apache's virtual host)

So use the second URL to fetch CodeLite for OSX

OR:
You can try and download directly from the GitHub mirror:
https://github.com/eranif/codelite/releases/tag/9.1

Eran