[K12OSN] Crazy Spam in my yum update

Shawn Powers spowers at inlandlakes.org
Mon Feb 12 15:13:40 UTC 2007


It appears as though macromedia.mplug.org no longer is a valid  
domain.  The spam is from godaddy's parked page.

What is mplug.org?  Who owns it, and should we tell them their domain  
is very broken?

-Shawn

On Feb 11, 2007, at 3:22 PM, Carl Keil wrote:

> Does anyone have any idea why I'm getting this when I run 'yum  
> update'? Both my k12ltsp boxes are doing it.
> And what can/should I do about it? Yum is wonderful, mysterious and  
> terrifying to me. What follows is approximately one quarter  
> (hopefully representative) of the output I get when I run 'yum  
> update' from the command line.
>
> Thanks for any ideas.
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>
> //var/cache/yum/macromedia/repomd.xml:327: parser error : Opening  
> and ending tag mismatch: td line 309 and tr
>              </tr>
>                   ^
> //var/cache/yum/macromedia/repomd.xml:328: parser error : Opening  
> and ending tag mismatch: tr line 308 and table
>            </table>
>                    ^
> //var/cache/yum/macromedia/repomd.xml:332: parser error :  
> EntityRef: expecting ';'
> pen('https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/jump_pages/icann_dry.asp? 
> isc=gppg0095&domain
>                                                                        
>         ^
> //var/cache/yum/macromedia/repomd.xml:332: parser error :  
> EntityRef: expecting ';'
> com/gdshop/jump_pages/icann_dry.asp? 
> isc=gppg0095&domain=macromedia.mplug.org&app
>                                                                        
>         ^
> //var/cache/yum/macromedia/repomd.xml:336: parser error : Opening  
> and ending tag mismatch: td line 189 and table
>            </table>
>                    ^
> //var/cache/yum/macromedia/repomd.xml:346: parser error : Opening  
> and ending tag mismatch: img line 346 and td
> ages-pw.secureserver.net/images/061703/spc_trans.gif" border="0"  
> height="9"></td
>                                                                        
>         ^
> //var/cache/yum/macromedia/repomd.xml:347: parser error : Opening  
> and ending tag mismatch: td line 346 and tr
>              </tr>
>                   ^
> //var/cache/yum/macromedia/repomd.xml:349: parser error :  
> EntityRef: expecting ';'
> ><a href="https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/hosting/landing.asp? 
> isc=GPPG1753&domain
>                                                                        
>         ^
> //var/cache/yum/macromedia/repomd.xml:349: parser error : Opening  
> and ending tag mismatch: img line 349 and a
> server.net/images/061703/img_ad_hosting_parked_1.gif" border="0"  
> vspace="3"></a>
>                                                                        
>         ^
> //var/cache/yum/macromedia/repomd.xml:362: parser error :  
> xmlParseEntityRef: no name
> size:12px;font-weight:normal;color: #000000;text- 
> align:left;">Generous Storage &
>                                                                        
>         ^
> //var/cache/yum/macromedia/repomd.xml:374: parser error :  
> EntityRef: expecting ';'
> <a href="https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/hosting/landing.asp? 
> isc=GPPG1755&domain
>                                                                        
>         ^
> //var/cache/yum/macromedia/repomd.xml:375: parser error : Opening  
> and ending tag mismatch: img line 375 and td
> ages-pw.secureserver.net/images/061703/spc_trans.gif" border="0"  
> height="8"></td
>                                                                        
>         ^
> //var/cache/yum/macromedia/repomd.xml:376: parser error : Opening  
> and ending tag mismatch: br line 374 and tr
>              </tr>
>                   ^
> //var/cache/yum/macromedia/repomd.xml:377: parser error : Opening  
> and ending tag mismatch: br line 349 and table
>            </table>
>                    ^
> //var/cache/yum/macromedia/repomd.xml:379: parser error : Opening  
> and ending tag mismatch: a line 349 and td
>                    </td>
>                         ^
> //var/cache/yum/macromedia/repomd.xml:380: parser error : Opening  
> and ending tag mismatch: td line 349 and tr
>                </tr>
>                     ^
> //var/cache/yum/macromedia/repomd.xml:381: parser error : Opening  
> and ending tag mismatch: tr line 348 and table
>            </table>
>                    ^
> //var/cache/yum/macromedia/repomd.xml:389: parser error :  
> EntityRef: expecting ';'
> "center"><a href="http://www.lifeonline.com/gdshop/radio/ 
> default.asp?isc=&domain
>                                                                        
>         ^
> //var/cache/yum/macromedia/repomd.xml:389: parser error : Opening  
> and ending tag mismatch: img line 389 and a
> lifeonline_tm.gif" border="0" alt="Life Online With Bob Parsons"  
> vspace="8"></a>
>                                                                        
>         ^
> //var/cache/yum/macromedia/repomd.xml:389: parser error : Opening  
> and ending tag mismatch: a line 389 and td
> online_tm.gif" border="0" alt="Life Online With Bob Parsons"  
> vspace="8"></a></td
>                                                                        
>         ^
> //var/cache/yum/macromedia/repomd.xml:390: parser error : Opening  
> and ending tag mismatch: td line 389 and tr
>              </tr>
>                   ^
> //var/cache/yum/macromedia/repomd.xml:393: parser error : Opening  
> and ending tag mismatch: br line 392 and td
> es-pw.secureserver.net/images/061703/spc_trans.gif" border="0"  
> height="8" /></td
>                                                                        
>         ^
> //var/cache/yum/macromedia/repomd.xml:394: parser error : Opening  
> and ending tag mismatch: td line 392 and tr
>                </tr>
>                     ^
> //var/cache/yum/macromedia/repomd.xml:395: parser error : Opening  
> and ending tag mismatch: tr line 391 and table
>            </table>
>                    ^
> //var/cache/yum/macromedia/repomd.xml:397: parser error : Opening  
> and ending tag mismatch: tr line 388 and td
>            </td></tr></table>
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>
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