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[–] 46 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Better title: "make sure you're on the official website when you're trying to download software, even if you've used it before".

The list includes widely used tools like PowerToys, CrystalDiskMark, EasyBCD, Lively Wallpaper, and Wintoys, all cloned onto lookalike domains that in most cases rank above the real project pages on Google.

Off the top of my head, I wouldn't know the right domain to download CrystalDiskMark or EasyBCD, for example. It doesn't sound like these clones are perfect replicas, but a convincingly close enough domain name with the same page contents might fool a ton of people

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  • [–] 19 points 3 months ago

    Off the top of my head, I wouldn’t know the right domain to download CrystalDiskMark or EasyBCD, for example.

    The way to find out the correct domain is to go to the Wikipedia page about the software.

    But actually, the right way to do it is to install software using your Linux distro's package manager.

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