Re: [NF] Console fonts

Author: Ted Roche

Posted: 2016-01-20 at 15:04:11

It appears that one of the fonts, Quinze, was generating the false positives.

Mike and/or Laurie, if you could check to see if the site doesn't

alarm on your machines, I'd appreciate it and pass that on to the site

author.

http://app.programmingfonts.org/

On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 8:42 AM, Ted Roche <tedroche@gmail.com> wrote:

> I've walked through the code on the site, and it looks okay to me (as

> much as you can guess a minimized jQuery files looks "okay"), Site

> owner Koen Lageveen tells me he's heard reports of web fonts being

> reported as malware before.

>

> If your software provided any details on what the threat consisted of,

> I'll be glad to forward your info.

>

>

> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 6:06 AM, Ted Roche <tedroche@gmail.com> wrote:

>> Well, isn't that special.

>>

>> https://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/app.programmingfonts.org/ reports

>> no problems.

>>

>> I have most ads blocked in my hosts file, so if it's in there I'm not seeing it.

>>

>> Do your alarms provide any more details?I'd report them to webmaster.

>>

>> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 3:30 AM, Laurie Alvey <trukker41@gmail.com> wrote:

>>> McAfee did the same.

>>>

>>> On 19 January 2016 at 16:51, <mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com>

>>> wrote:

>>>

>>>> That's weird. Went to the site and Avast immediately shouted "threat has

>>>> been detected!" ?!??

>>>>

>>>>

>>>> On 2016-01-18 10:49, Ted Roche wrote:

>>>>

>>>>> A cute little site for playing around with color themes and console fonts.

>>>>>

>>>>> The O'Reilly newsletters says, "Like a new pair of shoes!"

>>>>>

>>>>> http://app.programmingfonts.org/

>>>>>

>>>>> I spend a lot of time in Linux consoles and vim, and really appreciate

>>>>> Solarized Dark and SourceCodePro, though I see a couple others worth

>>>>> checking out.

>>>>>

>>>>> Note that you can type in the simulated console, which is important if

>>>>> you're checking out key characters like zero.

>>>>>

>>>>

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