Fake site pretending to be Forge

[NathanielPillar]

I was googling to see if forge 1.13 is out yet, and found this site, which claims to have Forge 1.13,1.13.1,1.13.2 downloads. Despite the fact that forge does not exist for those versions yet.

You should try to take that scummy site down.

[link removed]

[NathanielPillar]

I took the bait anyway to see what would happen. The "forge installer" was some dodgy lookin installer with an unfamiliar certificate. Closing it took my browser to an unfamiliar webpage.

[TheDeafProphet]

Yeah i recently became aware of the same site after my little brother was trying to find a 1.13 download. It was the first link that comes up when googling it. The site tries to almost exactly copy the real one so it can trick people, especially younger ones. I took a look at it, it seems to just try install a bunch of junk on your computer. Probably trying to get ad revenue money or something. Not extremely dangerous, but would prefer if something be done to get it taken down.

[LexManos]

Literally nothing we can do to take it down. They are in a country that doesn't respect international copyright laws. And they pay Google to be the top result so ya, Welcome to the world of asshats.

[TheDeafProphet]

Oh well, thats too bad. Hopefully people will be careful enough to avoid it then. Some people in this world.... smh. 

[KatherineFtw]

On 12/15/2018 at 5:05 AM, LexManos said:

Literally nothing we can do to take it down. They are in a country that doesn't respect international copyright laws. And they pay Google to be the top result so ya, Welcome to the world of asshats.

 

To add, their unlikely to get any support as everyone who would care and know how to counter it is using DDG. 

[TheDeafProphet]

Forgive me if i'm out of some loop, but what's DDG? 

[larsgerrits]

5 minutes ago, TheDeafProphet said:

but what's DDG? 

DuckDuckGo, an alternative search engine like Google.

[TheDeafProphet]

Interesting. Never heard of it before. 

[lehjr]

15 minutes ago, TheDeafProphet said:

Interesting. Never heard of it before. 

Linux Mint uses it by default. Other than that, it's not as well known as some names like Bing, Google. Incidentally, not that anyone remembers it, but I'd stay away from Ask.com since they're owned by the notorious IAC (Interactive Corp) known for pushing malware/spyware (MyWebsearch toolbar, Zwinky, FunBuddyIcons, rootkits, auto-downloaders/reinstallers, and so on.) 

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Edited December 20, 2018 by lehjr
Listing some of IAC's known malware

[lehjr]

On 12/14/2018 at 3:05 PM, LexManos said:

Literally nothing we can do to take it down. They are in a country that doesn't respect international copyright laws. And they pay Google to be the top result so ya, Welcome to the world of asshats.

The Whois lookup on that shows a hosting company (World4You) in Austria. 

[DTRaptor]

 

Well actually, I had a friend trying to get Forge. I was telling him what to do, and as he is a big impatient bugger, he clicked on the wrong link. He had a million viruses on his computer. Don't worry though, as we managed to get them all off.

[Denta]

Hey DTRaptor, I also just fell on this fake forge thing....
Could you tell me how your friend deleted those viruses?
My CPU is running at 100% all the time because of those viruses.

Any help would be nice!

[Havingagoodtimeplaying]

I heard this virus can give you Chromium Malware and can also give you Fake Avast Antivirus so I wouldn't say it would give you millions of viruses.

[Galacton]

On 9/21/2019 at 11:04 AM, Denta said:

Hey DTRaptor, I also just fell on this fake forge thing....
Could you tell me how your friend deleted those viruses?
My CPU is running at 100% all the time because of those viruses.

Any help would be nice!

Use Malwarebytes and run a Windows Defender scan.