Chris Acheson [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2011-07-19 🗒️ Summary of this message: A request to ...

📅 Original date posted:2011-07-19
🗒️ Summary of this message: A request to remove the forum link from Google search results due to bad PR caused by a thread offering to sell a bitcoin mining virus.
📝 Original message:Could we just get the forum link removed entirely? The current Google
search link does very little to disassociate the forum from the Bitcoin
project. There's no need to have a forum link anyway, as there's
already a link to the wiki, which links to the forum, and can be edited
to link to other unofficial forums as well.

I just came across a thread by someone offering to sell a bitcoin mining
virus:

<http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=21524.0>;

I know there'd been complaints about illegal activity, but this is a
whole new level of bad PR compared to people just offering to sell
drugs. Especially when there are responses like:

"Excuse me while I put this on every computer at my school."

"This would be so awesome if I could install it at every computer in my
college lab. So many bitcoins for me."

It doesn't just look like some one-off cybercriminal spam, it looks like
forum members in general support this kind of thing.

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