[GNC] From Reddit: gnucash.net is a malicious site

Ken Farley farleykj at gmail.com
Sun Apr 19 09:40:51 EDT 2026


Unfortunately, this kind of thing is rampant. It's one of the very first 
things people are told to look for when being given even the most 
rudimentary of online self-protection training. URLs with subtle 
misspellings, use of .net, .org, .usa, etc. are some of the simplest 
tricks used by bad actors to gain access to people's computers. And, 
particularly for Gnucash, as people constantly confess when asking a 
question, "I'm not good with computers I just want to manage my 
finances". Which means they are very vulnerable to these kinds of scams.

I'd imagine the crims are doing their best to "train" the latest crutch, 
AI, to provide so-called "answers" that steer people to their sites, too.

Like Kurt Russell said in The Thing, "Trust is a tough thing to come by 
these days".


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