February 17Feb 17 File location: https://flightsim.to/file/101755/pmdg-livery-manager-by-flightmods-and-doguer The file is advertised to 'manage' liveries of several PMDG and iFly aircrafts without the need of OC3 or the ifly manager. Think about that twice. Now it came to my attention that a guy with the same name ('doguer' and 'doguer26') is being roasted for spreading malware (which may or may not steal user accounts). When I warned in the comments section of said file simply that a bad guy with the same name exists also, my comment got deleted. 3 times. Not by flightsim.to, but by the file owner. Proof?: Bottom line: Please inform yourself - and feel free to visit the flightmods discord. Invitation is easily to find on YT. Strong nerves needed. Mr. Doguer's behavior on flightsim.to seems very strange to me...I only stumbled across his name on Reddit. Enough for me to stay very cautious. Maybe someone other is able to clarify on flightsim.to? Edited February 18Feb 18 by charliearon Removed non pics that were removedd at host site 'It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.'
February 17Feb 17 Because that is the first rule of hacking. Remove all traces AKA don't get caught. dd Edited February 17Feb 17 by Sky_Pilot071
February 17Feb 17 Author 17 minutes ago, Sky_Pilot071 said: Because that is the first rule of hacking. Remove all traces. dd Oh, that 'doguer' didn't. If you look at the flightmods discord, he's easily to find as author of the exact same file, too. The trick seems to be that the app is auto-updating...🤢 Edited February 17Feb 17 by MaGer1965 'It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.'
February 17Feb 17 Author Sorry, english isn't my native language - you would make mistakes in my language also, for sure. Better proposition (without using any offensive words according C.O.C) ? Mr. Teacher, I beg....didn't my message come across?😉 Edited February 18Feb 18 by MaGer1965 'It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.'
February 17Feb 17 Author 16 minutes ago, haskell said: What’s a “SEVERE FILE?” Thanks for the help...good teacher! I solved it on my own. What's there to criticize now? 😉😜🤣 'It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.'
February 18Feb 18 You download and install at your own risk from fs.to. Edited February 18Feb 18 by Marc22
February 18Feb 18 1 hour ago, Marc22 said: You download and install at your own risk from fs.to As from every other site in the www also. Flightsim.to is checking uploaded files of course. However, any check could be tricked if needed Guenter Steiner -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Betatester for: A2A, LORBY, FSR-Pillow Tester --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
February 18Feb 18 Not every other site; site the operate commercially are not open to to 'everybody upload' as such is an additional filter.
February 18Feb 18 I'm wondering why senior Randazzo is so calm about it? Is it not a direct substitution for official OS3 (liveries) and can be used for pirated software?
February 18Feb 18 Two pictures. The first one is from the file at flightsim.to, the second is doguer's announcement in the flightmods discord server. I hope they help lighten things up.
February 18Feb 18 Author 10 hours ago, guenseli said: any check could be tricked if needed and here comes the auto-update, yippie 🤬...just saw that 'doguer' on flightsim.to wrote in his last comment 'Hi, there is no association of me from flightsim.to to any piracy group'. One simple look in the flightmods discord proves this statement wrong. Look into #livery-installer-patch-notes, scroll down. Thanks for posting these pics, Mr_CA - and thanks to the moderators inhere. Edited February 18Feb 18 by MrLamb 'It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.'
February 18Feb 18 Author 2 hours ago, Vitold69 said: Is it not a direct substitution for official OS3 (liveries) and can be used for pirated software? Bingo. It seems you can install freeware liveries with this, too... My concern with this whole situation is one that everyone should recognize as a major threat: The "bad guy" "Doguer" was suspected—even by his former associate—of having injected malware into code, which apparently attempted to access usernames and passwords stored in the respective browser and send them via outbound traffic. Essentially the same approach as used at FSLabs-Gate, only with a different objective. In any case, it's extremely dangerous. The reaction from the "good guy" "Doguer" on flightsim.to and the helpful screenshots posted above by Mr_CA indicate that my warning may not have been entirely unfounded. From my side, all has been said. May the moderators decide, wether this stays open or not. Stay safe! Edited February 18Feb 18 by MrLamb 'It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.'
February 19Feb 19 Hi @MrLamb, doguer from flightsim.to here! Flightsim.to does a very strict and careful review for each file posted in their platform. They are helped by several manual reviews and AI reviews too. Also, the source code for my Livery Manager is public in Github, and you can find it here: Livery Manager - Github By the way, a new version will be released soon after manual review from the flightsim.to team, release for which of course, the source code is public on Github. This new version has been written in C# for optimization, performance, and safety concerns to Python because those piracy reddits which may lead to confusion to our target audience. Please also note that it is literally impossible for me to delete a comment in flightsim.to, there is no option to do so and any poster can confirm you this. All the coments were removed by flightsim.to because they are against flightsim.to terms and conditions and posting/commenting rules. You should read them before commenting/posting. Regarding your concern on the auto-update, every update is released on flightsim.to as it is, therefore, you don't need to "auto-update" to enjoy the new updates. This mean you can avoid the updates messages/popup and just get the latest update from flightsim.to. Mr_CA it seems you are in a piracy group as per your screenshots. No worries as I have fully knowledge of this and you will see that the files are not the same from flightsim.to and that Discord and you can compare them. Also, I have checked the posts for the "Malware" from those piracy subreddits, although there is no direct reference to me in flightsim.to from any of those owners of the piracy groups. I have checked the "malware" file and confirmed it does not contain any kind of malicious behavior. It has been analyzed by a small security firm located in Sweeden with the same results. As for the concerns of installing liveries on pirated versions of the aircraft, unfortunately this is something that can not be avoided. People can also install liveries manually or there are some liveries that are just drag & drop in flightsim.to. Any other inquiry, please let me know by this mean, github, or flightsim.to. Thank you!. @doguer Flightsim.to GitHub
February 19Feb 19 Author Necessary addendum: 'Doguer' has changed the name of his livery installer and removed references to flightmods. He's a member of another pirates group called 'FSZip', still: https://flightsim.to/file/104789/pmdg-ifly-livery-configs-manager-and-installer Edited February 19Feb 19 by MrLamb 'It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.'
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