GIMP Version: 2.8.4
Operating System: Windows
OS Version: Windows
GIMP Experience: Beginner Level

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I want to recommend GIMP to Windows using friends, but it is not supported officially for Windows.
Even worse, the download link for the Windows build goes to an ad-driven filesharing site with ads masquerading as download buttons. A friend on mine clicked on one of these and her antivirus software went nuts!

This is a serious problem! Is there anything we can do to help? Does anyone know the dev for the Windows build? I will not be able to recommend GIMP to Windows using friends until that problem is solved!

Uhm, whats the sites url? The official not-that-official builds for windows are here: Because of malware being found in SourceForge downloads, this link has been removed.


sf.net has ads, yes but there shouldn't be any harmful ads.

I Because of malware being found in SourceForge downloads, this link has been removed.
, let alone virus inducing ones. And this is the only link to a Windows installer from the GIMP.ORG website.

Yes, it's the source forge website. Brings up 4 ads, sometimes with big green download buttons (though no buttons are necessary)... when did source forge become such a spammy advert-ridden piece of crap?

They need a new host, asap!

I'm not seeing any ads
Because of malware being found in SourceForge downloads, this link has been removed.

Click the download link.

I did

No one here is clicking far enough. If you click on the download links off of the gimp branded pages you invariably get a page like this (sometimes FULL of fake download buttons):

Turn off your ad-blocker.

If you do not have AdBlock enabled, in SourceForge are some ads after download. I do not know if any antivirus detects malicious code for Windows in any of this ads, I use GNU/Linux.
If the antivirus is alerting, you must report to SourceForge and your antivirus software to detect if it's a false positive.

Edit: Oh! Now I see one of those ads can be misleading with that big green "Download" button. That is a problem and that kind of ads should not be allowed on SourceForge.

Yes, that's the real problem. :/ Even if they aren't viruses, the very nature of these ads is misleading, and could lead to the user installing something other than GIMP.

Seen this a while back on ghacks
SourceForge’s new Installer bundles program downloads with adware

That's unacceptable! D:<

I noticed their is a normal download for Gimp 2.8.
Because of malware being found in SourceForge downloads, this link has been removed.


There is another entry for just 'Gimp'.
Because of malware being found in SourceForge downloads, this link has been removed.

This one contains no download files.
This entry could easily confuse someone into using one of the fake download buttons on the page.

That's the Ubuntu version page. What I'm talking about is the Windows download page. And yes, that confusion is the main probably
I gave a co-worker the gimp.org link, and she came back to me today very angry. I don't blame her. If that was my first encounter with Open Source software, I probably wouldn't come back.

I'm so upset I could break things.

@CRogers, you could send an email to the developers mailing list to pose your concerns to be discussed. Perhaps also you can indicate this gimpchat link.
This is the mail address:
https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo ... loper-list

Please, be nice in your message

Thanks for the info. Yes, I'll be nice. I wouldn't assume it's the developer's fault anyway.

Just click the link from the main page and it will not give you span hopfully.

I really do not know where would be best to to pose the problem, whether developers or GIMP Web List:
https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-web-list
I know the developers list is more active.

The SourceForge Installer is not in all Windows downloads from SourceForge.
Is there any evidence that the Because of malware being found in SourceForge downloads, this link has been removed.
download uses it?