Cyble Intelligence and Research Lab has identified
Fake MSI Afterburner Infects Targets With Coin Miner, Password Stealer : Read more
Fake MSI Afterburner Infects Targets With Coin Miner, Password Stealer : Read more
Not that they would infect you, but I often find Guru3D ranking first on my download pages for MSI Afterburner, with MSI's page being second. I was once trying to get my dad to install TeamViewer so I could remotely connect to his PC to try and help him, and I swear it took 30 minutes of excruciatingly painful talk on the phone to get him to do it the right way. I'm not sure what he did the first time, but he ended up at some malicious download location.Should be common sense to get yo [KICK] from the official sites...
The Windows key resellers, I get why some would go to them, but Afterburner is already free...
It's the love/hate relationship people end up having with Google. They're a huge corporation with massive control over what we see online, but so far their search results are almost universally better than DuckDuckGo and Bing, etc. It's disgusting that both of those end up pointing at the fake msiafterburner.co site.I did a quick test between Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo, and Google lists the official site, Guru3D, and TechSpot as the top three results, DDG lists the official site and then two very sketchy sites, and Bing lists the official site, a sketchy site, and Techspot as their top three.
Just a reminder that while analytics may be something we dislike about companies, they do help protect against sketchy stuff.
No, that's correct. What I'm saying is that a reputable search engine should actively detect and ban any malware results. Google actually does that, Bing and DuckDuckGo have malware results on the first page. Anywhere on the first page rates as a fail in my book.When I search 'msi afterburner', I get this:
4th link fake.
When I search 'msi afterburner download', I get this:
3rd and 7th are sus.
¯\(ツ)/¯ What am I doing wrong?