Tuto4pc: Le nouveau cheval de Troie d'eoRezo

Lundi 3 Ocobre 2011

Il n'y a pas de petits profits.

Les tutoriels, ce n'est pas nouveau. CCM et le Site du Zéro en font depuis de nombreuse années. Des tonnes.

Comment faire du fric rapidement ? Simple ! Publiez des tutoriels assaisonnés d'adware/spyware ! C'est facile et pas très fatiguant:

• Écrivez quelques tutoriels (c'est à la portée de beaucoup de monde)
• Allez chercher quelques éditeurs d'adware et spywares (eoRezo et autres).
• Mélangez, secouez
• Profitez !

C'est le modèle de Tuto4pc. Et le PDG trouve que ce business-modèle est "innovant". Woao... des spywares dans des tutoriels, putain, c'est révolutionnaire. Ça vaut bien l'introduction en bourse.

Attendez, le plus beau c'est le contrat d'utilisation (J'espère que vous avez l'anus en béton armé pour consulter ces tutoriels):

LES INFORMATIONS COMMUNIQUEES PAR LES UTILISATEURS SERONT CONSERVEES DANS UN FICHIER INFORMATISE APPARTENANT A LA SOCIETE TUTO4PC ET SONT SUSCEPTIBLES D'ETRE COMMUNIQUEES AUX PARTENAIRES COMMERCIAUX DE TUTO4PC, ET/OU A TOUT TIERS

Donc toutes les infos que vous donnez à tuto4pc seront vendus à d'autres entreprises. Attendez, ce n'est pas fini:

L’UTILISATEUR ACCEPTE DE RECEVOIR DE L'TUTO4PC ET/OU DE SES PARTENAIRES DES OFFRES COMMERCIALES SUR SON TELEPHONE PORTABLE PAR SMS OU MMS.

Vous allez donc être pourri de SMS de publicité.

Les dits composants peuvent faire apparaître, sur l'écran de l'Utilisateur, des messages publicitaires ou autres informations de la part d'TUTO4PC ou d’annonceurs tiers

Votre PC aussi.

L’Utilisateur accepte que les services proposés par TUTO4PC associés aux logiciels téléchargés et en particulier les Logiciels TUTO4PC, puissent modifier les paramètres de navigateur WEB (bookmark, page d'accueil, onglet).

En prime, ils vont détourner la page d'accueil de votre navigateur (avec lo.st), bidouiller vos bookmarks et onglets.

TUTO4PC peut être amené à recueillir des informations concernant les adresses des sites internet préalablement visités par l'internaute.

Ils vont piocher allègrement dans votre historique de navigation.

L'Utilisateur autorise les mises à jour et/ou les installations automatiques des Logiciels TUTO4PC et de tout logiciel de sociétés tierces accessibles par l'intermédiaire de TUTO4PC.

Autrement dit TUTO4PC vend votre PC à d'autres sociétés qui pourront installer ce qu'elles veulent dessus. Installez un tutoriel, et vendez votre âme.

Les dits composants restent actifs à tout moment afin de contrôler et d'assurer la fourniture du service de TUTO4PC, et d'autres fonctions telles que celles décrites dans le présent paragraphe.

D'autres fonctions "telles que", mais pas que celles-là ? Lesquelles ?

La responsabilité vis-à-vis de l'utilisateur en matière d'utilisation ou d'utilisation incorrecte des Logiciels TUTO4PC ou d'un logiciel de société tierce accessible par l'intermédiaire des Logiciels TUTO4PC ne saurait en aucun cas être attribuée à TUTO4PC ou à ladite société tierce.
[...]
TUTO4PC et toute société tierce permettant l'accès à son logiciel par l'intermédiaire des Logiciels TUTO4PC n'acceptent aucune responsabilité en ce qui concerne les dommages susceptibles de résulter du téléchargement et/ou de l'utilisation des Logiciels TUTO4PC et/ou de tout logiciel de société tierce accessible par l'intermédiaire des Logiciels TUTO4PC.

Traduction: Si les logiciels installés par Tuto4PC ou ses partenaires vont foutre la merde sur internet, c'est pour votre gueule, c'est vous le responsable.

La société TUTO4PC tranchera souverainement tout litige relatif à l'interprétation du présent règlement. Il ne sera répondu à aucune demande téléphonique concernant l'interprétation ou application du présent règlement.

Une question sur le contrat ? Une contestation ? Allez vous faire foutre. C'est nous qu'on dit comment ça se passe.

Tout ça... pour des tutoriels ? Ils se foutent de notre gueule ?

J'ai regardé le tutoriel Photoshop sur le château dans les nuages, ça ne casse pas 3 pattes à un canard. C'est un bête masque entre deux images.

Franck ROSSET, Président Directeur Général... de quoi ? La société Tuto4PC mentionnée dans le contrat précédent n'existe pas. TutoGroupnon plus. Aucune trace dans le registre des sociétés françaises (ou alors j'ai mal cherché). D'ailleurs il n'y a aucun numéro de SIRET sur leur site web. En grattant un peu, on voit que le domaine est domicilié au 14 rue Lincoln, 75008 Paris. Et devinez qui on trouve à la même adresse? eoRezo, grand pourvoyeur d'adware/spyware ! En fait, tuto4pc n'est qu'un prétexte: C'est qu'une nouvelle voie que cherche eoRezo pour atteindre plus d'ordinateurs. Ils le disent eux-même.

Quand je vois tout le travail fait sur CCM, le SDZ ou les dizaines d'autres sites communautaires depuis plus de 10 ans et les tonnes de tutoriels gratuits sans contrepartie, le modèle économique de tuto4pc me fait gerber. Non pas que je reproche aux gens de gagner de l'argent en écrivant des tutoriels. Pas du tout. Mais carotter l'ordinateur des internautes avec des spyware et piller leur vie privée pour gagner de l'argent, ça c'est minable.

Maintenant on pourra rétorquer que les internautes qui installent ces merdes ont accepté le contrat d'utilisation en toute connaissance de cause, mais personne n'est dupe.

Et non, ce n'est PAS INNOVANT.

(Un grand Merci à Ludovic pour m'avoir donné l'info.)

Article écrit par Sebsauvage et publié sous licence Creative Commons 

Faire un screencast sous Linux

Comment faire un screencast sous Linux avec du son, mais sans Pulseaudio installé.

What is happening in France ?

As you know, since few days french government just want to spy all computers in France, against mp3 and movies downloading, with a legal trojan named : Hadopi, fortunately (or unfortunately) this software doesn't work on Linux, only with Windows and worst, all french people with DSL connections must buy this trojan. Yes, you have understand me : French gouvernement just have legalize trojan on computers!

We just ask you to boycott all french culture, particulary all movies of Luc Besson (nevermind, this is a very bad producer) and Gaumont Distributor. But you can also make jokes with all french people, frenchs people are so stupid, yes you can said now !

Please help us to keep our freedom free against fascism and french lobbyists. Now !

HADOPI = GESTAPO

Thanks for you support.


Coming up french movies to boycott :
From Paris With Love (2010)
Arthur and the Vengeance of Maltazard (2009)
Boomerang (2009)
District B13: Ultimatum (2009)

Install HP Scanjet G2410 scanner on Ubuntu

N.B This article was translated mostly with Google Translate, so some sentences may not be clear. Feel free to correct me if possible. Unlike printers, most of flatbed scanners Hewlett-Packard are not compatible with Linux, HP even acknowledged on their website. In this post, however we will see how to install these drivers easily and avoid throwing in the trash your scanner because it's works only on Microsoft Windows.

Before all, install sane and sane-utils if not already done, so:

sudo apt-get install sane sane-utils xsane xsane-common

Download this file on your desktop : hp_scanjet_g2410.tar.gz

Uncompress it:

tar -xvzf hp_scanjet_g2410.tar.gz

You get two distinct folders: usr-lib and usr-lib-sane

And now, just copy-paste, with root permission, all files inside into /usr/lib and /usr/lib/sane :

sudo cp usr-lib/* /usr/lib
sudo cp usr-lib-sane/* /usr/lib/sane

So, connect your scanner with USB cable, then push power on button. Close all applications running and restart your computer!

Once your computer restarts, go to console again and type this command:

scanimage -L

You should get a line like that:

device `hp2400:libusb:001:010' is a Hewlett-Packard hp2400 flatbed scanner

Run xsane to begin scanning your documents!

This driver was installed and tested successfully under Ubuntu 8.04 hardu. Feel free to leave your comments if it worked for you on other Ubuntu version or others Linux distributions.

NB. This driver is a bit limited because two buttons on the front device will not be works, but no desire to use xsane with classical. The scanner is also quite noisy during acquering and the rest yet, but more moderately, a minute after the last scan, do not worry this is normal.

Wicd ...WEP, WAP can works on Ubuntu.

N.B This article was translated mostly with Google Translate, so some sentences may not be clear. Feel free to correct me if necessary.

After several weeks of installation and use (Tribe 1 to 5, beta, and RC and Final Release ) of Ubuntu Gutsy, I decided to speak about a very small program, yet disregarded but so effective. It is an alternative to very unstable network-manager. While for some this is not the case there are others, and I am well-placed to know that, who complain of continually low reliability of this software which remind all the same, is still developing.

So, I will therefore tell you about wicd under this name also evokes another CD player, an application dedicated to the management, configuration and monitoring of your WiFi connection. All this and a friendliness which would pale jealousy a user of MAC OS X. But that's not all! Indeed, until a few more weeks, I used network-manager included in Feisty and Gutsy betas to connect my laptop to my WiFi network.

But then, probably because the chipset, so I thought, it would not be me I log in WPA, but only with no safety WEP. However, I knew that I can use Windows drivers with ndiswrapper, but I knew also I couldn't use WPA without DHCP, or the particular configuration of my network does not allow me. In short, I could not to butter somebody up. So I looked at the problem and does not mean that there is someone (sorry I do not remember who) my intention to try wicd. I will therefore propose that we do the same in the following lines, quietly, step by step and according to your level.

The good news is wicd although is not included in Ubuntu repositories but it is possible to install it with a third-party repository. So we will see how to add a new third-party repository. This article will therefore also be tutorials for beginners all agree that we have with this new version of Ubuntu. For others go directly to the method No. 2 or 3.
Ralink cards users : Please note that wireless cards based on Ralink chipsets are not yet supported but are already in the SVN version and will be in the next version.

Method # 1: absolute beginners.

Go to System-> Administration> Synaptic package manager. A password, the same as in your opening session, you will be asked.
Then go to Configuration> Repository. A window titled Software Sources you will emerge with a choice of several tabs.
Select Software from third parties.
You will see a button at the bottom left marked Add. Click on this button and add this following line (you can copy and paste, it's faster) :

 deb http://wicd.longren.org gutsy extras Deb http://wicd.longren.org gutsy extras 

The entry by click on Add a source of updated. And oh, miracle! It appears at the bottom of the list of repositories and is already checked (if this is not the case then check).
We can now click on Close button to .... close this window.
You would probably, if this is the first time you do this, a very small window of information with the following message:

"Information repositories has been changed. Please click "Reload" for changes take into your account. "

What we are going to do so immediately by clicking the Reload button at the top left of Synaptic.
Let's update process repositories be done, once finished just click on Search button and type wicd in the box reserved for this purpose. And 2nd miracle of the day, we can see in Synaptic a new program entitled wicd which did not exist prior to the addition of our third filing.
Simply double-click on it, you will see a notification, and this is the whole interest of a package manager, you that this program will automatically remove network-manager and its dependencies (in our case he there was a dependency, network-manager-gnome) to avoid any conflict.

Note that you can uninstall at any time wicd network-manager to resettle without any trace of his installation resides on your hard drive. (Go to bottom on this article).

We shall therefore proceed to the installation to click on Add to the selection. Because we can, but you probably guessed, add as many programs as you want in a kind of queue that will install all programs added by clicking on a single button Apply. Do it now!

Once install complete, you can close Synaptic and use your program. So? You see, that even a beginner can easily add a repository to its distribution. Switch now to the stage configuration, a little lower just after the two other methods.

Method # 2: Inform Beginners .

Open a terminal, and add this repository in your /etc/apt/sources.list:

 sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list 

and add the following line:

 deb http://wicd.longren.org gutsy extras 

Perform update and install the program:

 sudo apt-get update && apt-get install wicd

Method # 3: Beginners with use Firefox.

Add this repository in your /etc/apt/sources.list:

 deb http://wicd.longren.org gutsy extras 

Update the repositories and click here to install the program.

Warning: If you use an another version of Ubuntu, change simply by dapper gutsy, edgy or feisty in all cases above.

Configuration

Voila! For me it was an opportunity to evaluate the situation with some beginners about different ways to use the package managers available in Ubuntu.

Go to System> Preferences> Sessions. In the Startup Programs tab, click Add and in the Name field with:

 Wicd 

In the field Command put:

 /opt/wicd/tray.py

In the Comment field with:

 Wireless Connection Manager 

For Kubuntu users, put this in a terminal :

 sudo ln -s /opt/wicd/tray.py ~/.kde/Autostart/tray.py 

Click Apply and restart your session - but read this first :

/! \ Be careful when you restart your session, it's seem likely you lost your Internet connection. So, to be able to follow the rest of the tutorial, make sure you have saved this page before proceeding or plug an Ethernet cable.

After login your Gnome session, go to the Applications menu> Internet> Wicd to start it (if not already done), but basically you should have an icon in the top left the dock at the old place of network-mananger.

Just add your connection settings, test WEP first, and after WPA. The interface is enough intuitive to get along without me. Here's an example with my settings:

Avoid to change default values in Preferences menu if you do not know what you do:

What can I do if it doesn’t work and I would back to network-manager?
In a terminal type:

 sudo apt-get remove wicd && apt-get install network-manager 

Restart your session.

So far, I have been able to test five wicd on machines equipped with wireless like Dell and Toshiba laptops, I had no problem, the connection is very stable and works properly.

I hope that could be fix the problem with those who might have with network-manager and with the opportunity for beginners to better appreciate the flexibility and diversity of an environment for GNU / Linux.