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

2022-12-12 Thread Glenn Fowler
It appears they are thinking it's a trademark violation. Maybe report back something along the lines of this is a rogue website distributing malware by impersonating a legitimate one. On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 7:48 AM Dr. David Kirkby < drkir...@kirkbymicrowave.co.uk> wrote: > I reported this to co

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

2022-12-12 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
I reported this to compliance_ab...@webnic.cc, as that's the registrar abuse contact email. I have sent them screenshots showing the URL, so I'm not sure why they are asking for that. But their latest response is below. Given it's an open-source project I don't suppose there's any trademark, and do

Re: [GNC] URGENT: Fake gnucash website with fake download,

2022-12-11 Thread Glenn Fowler
Firefox users can use: network.IDN_show_punycode -> true Use Punycode in Internationalized Domain Names to eliminate possible spoofing On Sun, Dec 11, 2022, 1:14 PM David G. Pickett via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > Even riskier is clicking a link with a Cyrillic a (thanks

Re: [GNC] URGENT: Fake gnucash website with fake download,

2022-12-11 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
Even riskier is clicking a link with a Cyrillic a (thanks unicode utf8), looks great and very wrong.  Don't go by eye.  Use a trusted bookmark?  Use gnucash.org?  host names are case insensitive. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To

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

2022-12-10 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
I'm not seeing it in the UK. But when I did a lookup of the domain using https://www.namesilo.com/ one gets some limited information. It looks like it was registered in Germany in October 2022. I changed the domain name to BAD.org to stop search engines finding it in my post. I don't know if ther

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

2022-12-09 Thread John Ralls
And for that page I get a completely blank page. I tried Safari, Firefox, and Chrome on macOS, Linux, and Windows. I tried searching Google for gnu-cash, with the hyphen, and did see the ad, but clicking its link just took me to that Dot Com Inovations page. Regards, John Ralls > On Dec 9, 2

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

2022-12-09 Thread Vincent Dawans
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 wrote: > I just typed gnucash in google and the first hit was an ad pointin

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

2022-12-09 Thread Vincent Dawans
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 goo