On the 31st August I got an email from a customer, telling me that they had found an imitation of my data wrangling software on Github. I’m not linking to it, but here is a screenshot:

It is using our product name and logo, without permission. I reported it to Github as an imitation on the same day. I got this reply:

A colleague scanned the Mac .dmg file from the repository using virustotal.com and got a whole load of malware warnings:

Using Isobuster he found out that they have also changed the background image of the .dmg:

The new image encourages downloaders to ignore any warnings about the malware!

I reported this additional information on the 10th September.

As of the 23rd September, I have had no response from Github support beyond the original automated email. 23 days without a reponse. This is pisspoor. Do better Github.

I’m not sure what my next line of attack is. A DCMA takedown request to Github?

Realistically the only people likely to download the .dmg are those trying to avoid paying for a license for Easy Data Transform. I don’t have a huge amount of sympathy for them if they get their computers compromised. But I really don’t like bad guys taking advantage of my hard work.

Ps/ Always download software from the vendor, where possible.