Hey, haven't written anything for ages.

Decided to check out Deepin Linux and got complaints from Avast!

Check out the attachment.

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Have you checked the MD5 sum for your iso?

You can check it with the command below:

It should match the one from here.

The moment, when avast blocks the page is when I am trying to download the iso (from the page you left the link to), somehow, I don't want to force the download through the warnings. :/
Edit:
To take a screenshot I returned to the page, and there weren't any warnings, I closed the browser went there again and warnings were back. I have visited the page four times and 3 of them were red.
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OK, I started the download using wget, will check the md5.
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Nah, I guess it's no use, wget is retrying regularly and the download speed is terrible estimated download time is 40+ hours.
What I actually wanted to know was, is it known for Deepin to be on the dark side, considering that it's from China.
Edit:
What I noticed is that the IP which is used by wget differs from IP in the screenshot. Could Avast get suspicious just because of the redirection? :/

i can see how a windows antivirus might see a linux distro .iso as a false positive...

to test, try a few other distros and see if they get flagged too.
if they do, you can be sure it's a false positive.
but that still doesn't mean that i would recommend deepin.

I have been using various linux isos for years, never had a problem.
It might be that the redirection of the IP might have caused Avast to spit out the warnings.
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OK, I cancelled wget download. I'll wait for a bit, if anyone has anything to add. Otherwise I'll close the thread.

^ so you got the warning from the attempted download, not the file itself?
i don't think downloading itself is dangerous.

but i'll say it again, try a test with another distro; avast might have changed its behavior since you last downloaded a linux .iso.

Is e reason why you're going to some random IP address and not to:
https://www.deepin.org/en/download/
I have NoScript installed, so perhaps I'm missing a redirrect, but the download link points to cdimage.deepin.com not some random IP address, at least for me.
Edit:
I pinged both sites above and the IP addresses are:
www.deepin.org 114.215.101.12
cdimage.deepin.com 202.141.160.114
These are nothing like the one in the screenshot so this suggests either a dodgy download site was chosen or the browser is in some way compromised.

LQ has a place to download distros
you could also have a look at
http://distrowatch.com/
a great place to look for a distro that's just right for you

What does the site address resolve to for you? I get 183.91.33.46, so maybe there's some geographic cdn/dns issue.
Try 'my' ip# above, in your wget of: /releases/15.4/deepin-15.4-amd64.iso

https://github.com/linuxdeepin/deepi...Deepin.mirrors

I'm not at a PC to test this but you could be correct about the DNS. However, for the IP adress to be exposed in the firefox window looks off to me regardless.
edit: perhaps one of the Deepin mirrors has either been compromised or isn't set up quite correctly?

Yes, that is the address avast is complaining about. Check out my initial post, there's a screenshot attached.
Anyway, it is not an urgent matter.
Hopefully this thread helps people to be more careful. I guess I could let deepin devs to know about this. I'll look into it, if it is sufficiently easy.

After posting this thread to deepin fb page.
Another person, with more free time on hand, posted this:

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