Re: [GNC-dev] URGENT: Fake gnucash website with fake download, most likely compromised file

I don't see that ad when I search Google for gnucash; when I type https://www.gnu-cash.org/ into my browser's address bar I'm taken to a page titled "Dot Com Inovations"[sic] with a heading "October 20, 2022" and nothing at all about GnuCash.

Not that there would be anything we could do about it if it did exist.

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Dec 9, 2022, at 3:39 PM, Vincent Dawans <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Added screenshot showing fake gnucash site ad at top of google results.
> 
> On Fri, Dec 9, 2022 at 3:31 PM Vincent Dawans <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Precision: the link to the fake site reported below is actually
>> https://gnu-cash.org/main.php -- you need the full page link to see the
>> fake site that shows in the google ad.
>> 
>> On Fri, Dec 9, 2022 at 3:24 PM Vincent Dawans <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> I just typed gnucash in google and the first hit was an ad pointing to
>>> gnu-cash.org (with a dash). It is a fake site that is a carbon copy of
>>> the official site but the download link goes to a setup.exe that is most
>>> likely a corrupted virus file.
>>> 
>>> We need this removed ASAP. There is an option in google to report the
>>> site and mark it as spam/phishing. I imagine if more people do this it will
>>> get removed faster hopefully.
>>> 
>> 
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