He was one of the first computer guys back in the 60s! Worked for IBM for a while, also did AS400 consulting for 20 or so years. What's really hard is that he used to be at least somewhat competent on computers. Me: "You should see a blue screen with a black 'Download for free' button in the middle-left." Me: "Type 'into your browser address bar and press enter." I'm not sure what he did the first time, but he ended up at some malicious download location. I was once trying to get my dad to install TeamViewer so I could remotely connect to his PC to try and help him, and I swear it took 30 minutes of excruciatingly painful talk on the phone to get him to do it the right way. The Windows key resellers, I get why some would go to them, but Afterburner is already free.Not that they would infect you, but I often find Guru3D ranking first on my download pages for MSI Afterburner, with MSI's page being second. Phaaze88 said:Should be common sense to get yo from the official sites. Some are already offline, but more are bound to show up. Cyble has identified some of the fake domains, such as msi-afterburner-download.site, msi-afterburner.download and.
You can spot fraud by looking at the domain names. The phishing websites look precisely like MSI's official Afterburner download page. The modus operandi consists of distributing the malware through phishing emails, online advertisements, forums, and other mediums. The criminals couldn't find a better time to set up shop. However, it would seem that the threat actors back at it again now that Nvidia is rolling out its GeForce RTX 40-series graphics cards and AMD is on the brink of unleashing the Radeon RX 7900-series products. MSI detected a similar incident last year. It's not the first time that perpetrators are targeting MSI Afterburner, either.
Therefore, it doesn't come as a shock that threat actors are impersonating MSI's software. MSI Afterburner is one of the more popular graphics card software for monitoring, tweaking, and overclocking the best graphics cards on the market.
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