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> I mean, I still can't make Get Cryptolocker[0] show up on Google.

Hmm, I wonder if that's something to do with the fact that you're literally distributing malware...

Surely there are legal issues here too?

[0] getcryptolocker[.]com/get/

Edit: According to the about page, it isn't really cryptolocker, but VirusTotal still isn't happy about it: https://virustotal.com/en/file/0a2816af8a0580b0f58cb4ee1f102... I'm sure that in itself will hurt rankings.



Author here. It's a page I built for phishing susceptibility testing. There's another entire blog posting in the fact that I get about a 70% success rate emailing people from .ru domains asking them to visit that site and run the executable.

It is 100% benign.


> Edit: According to the about page, it isn't really cryptolocker, but VirusTotal still isn't happy about it ….

Since you've obviously followed this up, for the benefit of those of us who don't want to follow the link, could you explain what it is?


I have no idea, I haven't tried running it.




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