It's for their URL Advisor feature. It annotates pages like Google search results with a color indicator next to each link, to show if the link is "safe" or not. In my version of Kaspersky Antivirus You can disable it from Options => Additional => Networking.

That's because bullshitters throw out the word "blockchain" for effect, but in reality they're simply talking about distributed databases and digital signatures. The real value of a project is not BECAUSE it uses these well-known technologies (which btw predate Bitcoin), but because of HOW it uses them to solve real problems... Most of these projects just throw the "blockchain" word out without having any interesting functionality to present for it, hoping they'll get followers.

Well... Not to underestimate the finding, but frankly it's nothing new. Executables may carry malicious code, no matter how innocent they look.

To avoid running the executable, you can use WinRAR (or 7Zip etc) to open the SFX as if it were a regular archive.

We heard the same during the Cyprus banking crisis.

At the time, a startup named Neo & Bee with a certain Mr. Danny Brewster as CEO, touted itself more or less the first bitcoin bank.

Anyway, turns out the guy left the country in a hurry amidst allegations of bitcoin fraud, never to be seen or heard of from again. All that's left is empty buildings with the Neo & Bee's logo outside, and (if you trust the media), unpaid advertising companies and unpaid employees.

So I say beware of people proclaiming they have magical solutions.
Trust them at your own peril...

GST
GREEK SECURITY TEAM
10/09/08 03:00

At this time, an experiment is taking place at CERN.

The reason we chose [to hack] this site, is to remind you of a few things. This is not done because of any personal conflict between us and the CERN management team, but because of the high traffic which this site will experience within the next 24 hours, due to the experiment.

Some items from the database:

USERNAME USER_ID CREATED
SYS 0 2008-02-18 16:19:25.0
SYSTEM 5 2008-02-18 16:19:25.0
OUTLN 11 2008-02-18 16:19:28.0
DIP 19 2008-02-18 16:21:17.0
TSMSYS 21 2008-02-18 16:23:27.0
DBSNMP 24 2008-02-18 16:24:25.0
WMSYS 25 2008-02-18 16:24:53.0
EXFSYS 34 2008-02-18 16:27:55.0
XDB 35 2008-02-18 16:28:04.0
PDB_ADMIN 46 2008-02-18 17:26:32.0
GLEGE 49 2008-02-19 10:13:07.0
PDBMON 45 2008-02-18 17:25:24.0
BALYS 44 2008-02-18 17:25:24.0
USERMON 48 2008-02-18 17:69:26.0 ..etc...etc....

Some emails :
burk**t@fnal.gov
zr**n@fnal.gov

The ** were used not to expose people whom we have nothing to blame for :)

As we wrote in preface, our purpose is not to disrupt the system or destroy the site ... our purpose is to show our reaction to many member of the "active???" GHS, which has become arrogant without producing ...

Stupid factions are created just to verbally bully and excluse, from IRC channels, persons
that are not considered (by themselves and their minions) worthy of their knowledge and image.

Some others .. the 1337 of the "scene" do nothing but chat and drink coffe, but they do not act, since all they are inclined to do is gossip ... but when it comes to "security" ... what's that? we are 2700 .. dont mess with us.

LAMERS AND SHOWOFFS!!

Stop drooling and ass-kissing, and grab a keyboard! But of course, critisizing is easy, especially when you are around a bunch of 20 year-old stupid skiddies chanting "2600" - "2600". Go to insomnia.gr and start burying with your best shovel .. even so, it will bare the seal of GST.

We are everywhere... because unlike you, we do not spend our nights writting verses or "rapping" in squares ... nor mocking what we cannot touch ...

We will not take your pants off because we don't want to see you running panicked and naked, trying to hide, simply because we are not like you. You should have expected this, when you were mocking things which you never thought of doing ... but enough time spent with a bunch of schoolboys who've learned hacking through
Hollywood movies and the dumb American culture of neo-geek who reads magasines about hacking while trying to break into his girlfriend's email to see if she is cheating on him, and has linux dual boot just to awe his friends who, too, read neo-hack-mania magasines. .

The whole Greek internet is full of wholes .. some of the largest govenrmental sites know nothing about the term security,
since they assign design to lame companies...

THERE IS NO SECURITY THROUGH FAVORITISM

We salute the true amateurs and lovers of the art of computers. Old people who gave up
because they got bored and tired not with this art, but with the complex of those "experts" in the area!! And the younger ones who without much talk work with the head bowed because they only care about knowledge and nothing else!!

Dear CERN admins, we have pached the serious BUG which your site had, to avoid turning it into a Dork and have it decafed everyday with the bullshit of every wannabe hacker.

Do not search for us.. We will find you... very soon !!!!

Thnx Mr Server [lxplus.cern.ch]

_GreekSecurityTeam_ - [.GST.]