127
Be careful downloading Windows 11 apps from Google, 70+ fake sites are pushing malware right now
(www.windowslatest.com)
this post was submitted on 30 Jul 2026
127 points (98.5% liked)
Technology
86735 readers
3019 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Better title: "make sure you're on the official website when you're trying to download software, even if you've used it before".
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
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.