Had a brush with some badness named “openh264.org”.
I am sitting in a Starbucks with its own internet access, my very own local shady access point. When I connect to the access point, there is a popup which requires me to click I ACCEPT THE TERMS etc, and then hit the CONNECT button. This usually goes smoothly, as I have the password stored, and that’s all I have to do. But today I got hit with a pop-up that said such-and-such a site is trying to download(?) a file. The file was named something like this:
http(s?)://ciscobinary.openh264.org/{LONG-ugly-UID-here}.zip
What do you want to do with this file, open with IE, do something else, [ ] remember this choice, OK/CANCEL.
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