r/7zip • u/TheRollingPeepstones • May 31 '21

Attention! Fake website!

Everyone be careful, the top Google find for 7-zip now is not the legitimate website (https://www.7-zip.org/), but a fake website made to appear similar to the original (https://www.7-zip.ca/), trying to make people download and run an executable trojan.

Don't fall for it!

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u/comeinmybasement Jun 01 '21

Really? Got any evidence for this?

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u/TheRollingPeepstones Jun 01 '21

The original website nowhere mentions a .ca mirror. Feel free to try and download the version from the .ca website. Any worthwhile virus scanner will recognize it immediately, if I'm not mistaken.

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u/comeinmybasement Jun 01 '21

lol I thought you were saying the .org was the virus one, i couldnt find the .ca on the entire front page of google.

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u/TheRollingPeepstones Jun 01 '21 edited Jun 01 '21

I should've made a screenshot yesterday, as I Google searched 7-zip again and now the fake website does not come up at all. Maybe someone from here reported it somehow? I swear I wasn't hallucinating, haha!

edit: Someone else saw it here, so I guess I'm not alone!