Have the Spybot Anti-Beacon downloads been hijacked?

nulll

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Hello, all!

Earlier today, I decided to download Spybot Anti-Beacon on my Windows 10 machine. So, I went to https://forums.spybot.info/downloads.php?id=55 and clicked on the link labeled "SpybotAntiBeacon-1.5-setup.exe" to go download the program. When I did so, I got redirected to a link on app.box.com (https://app.box.com/s/gz4y0slwhb7bx3xsvs5nh9lbedoyi5o4#hash%28md5:63C2CF7B61D29D7664BFA55D33EDA510%29), and when I tried to download it, nothing would happen. Looking at the developer console, every time I clicked on the "Download Now" button, an error came up on the console: "Resin: Application not found".

After this, I decided to see if I could download the previous version below it, 1.4. So I clicked on that link, and lo and behold, I was able to download it. Getting annoyed with this problem, I decided to see where the links where going. Looking at the download link for version 1.4 of the application, I saw that it took me to a page on dl.dropbox.com (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/85556593/SpybotAntiBeacon-1.4-setup.exe#hash(md5:56D7D470EEA95B310CB3C4CBCF5ECC0A)), not to app.box.com. So, I replaced the "1.4" in the second link with "1.5", and I was able to download version 1.5 of Spybot Anti-Beacon.

As such, I have one question: is the download link for version 1.5 of Spybot Anti-Beacon as presented on the download page the correct download link?

Thanks in advance!
 
Same problem, thought maybe it was just my own browser being hijacked. Wouldn't be surprised if appbox is a Microsoft subsidiary haha
 
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Hello,

Yesterday we experienced a server issue, things seem to be getting back to normal. :)
 
1.5 Spybot Anti-Beacon down load broken

I just want to say I have the same problem with the down load of the 1.5 Spybot Anti-Beacon and hoping that it will be fixed soon as I would like to test it out on a windows 10 pc.

Today is Jan 16 2016 21:45 MST
Cheers
 
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