Illegal redistribution by windowsactivator.net (likely malware too)

[jobbautista9]

The webpage in question: https://windowsactivator.net/pale-moon- ... y-x32-x64/

The download points to a zip file in MediaFire (https://www.mediafire.com/file/556q1l9i ... !.zip/file). I've sent an email to their abuse contact asking them to remove it.

I found this while searching in Mojeek, and I've used their feedback form as well asking them to delist it from the search results (which is third in the list).

[Moonchild]

Confirmed that this is malware. They try to prevent scanning and detection of it by (1) double-packing it as a 7z inside a zip, (2) password protecting the 7z, (3) using non-ascii character filename to send instructions to unpack, and (4) padding the setup.exe to a very large file size hoping AV scanners will skip it and preventing virustotal from allowing it as an upload.

[BenFenner]

Oh, fun!

[Massacre]

It is obvious that "Pale Moon crack serial key" will point only to malware.

[billmcct]

It has been removed by MediaFire.

[Moonchild]

It is obvious that "Pale Moon crack serial key" will point only to malware.

To you and me, perhaps, not to people who have only heard about Pale Moon from recent news and think they can get a "Pro" version or what not this way

It has been removed by MediaFire.

Yes, I was about to post about that here as I received a response to my own ticket with mediafire, them confirming it was removed for violating their terms.

[jobbautista9]

Yeah I got a quick response to my email as well 9 hours after I sent mine. Good work for them!