Beware of fake MSI Afterburner downloads

[citay]

There have been some fake websites which claim to offer MSI Afterburner, but their improper software actually includes a cryptocurrency miner, so victims will be mining coins for the people behind the scam. It's all explained here:

Fake MSI Afterburner Sites Delivering Coin-Miner

CRIL analyses How Threat Actors utilize the Fake MSI Afterburner Sites to Deliver XMR Miner for their financial gain.

blog.cyble.com

Those websites are advertised in phising campains as well as being maliciously pushed towards to the top of the Google search results.

This is the official site:

Afterburner

MSI Afterburner is the world’s most recognized and widely used graphics card overclocking utility. It provides detailed overview of your hardware and comes with some additional features like customizing fan profiles, benchmarking and video recording.

www.msi.com

 

[Nichrome]

And how does one know this post isn't fake?

Spoiler: Spoiler

I'll sticky this, thanks citay. Though not many actually read stickies either.

 

[Alan J T]

The website address should look like this
If it not say MSI.COM and have the padlock do not download

Fake Sites will look like this

 

[perini.david158a02dd]

I installed the software for error but it seems that I don't have the " browser_assistent.exe " file...
my Karspersky doesn't find any threats...

can I consider my PC safe now?

 

[Nichrome]

I installed the software for error but it seems that I don't have the " browser_assistent.exe " file...
my Karspersky doesn't find any threats...

can I consider my PC safe now?

Get a bootable antivirus (eset has one for example) and scan your PC from there.

 

[Svet]

I installed the software for error

Which software did you mean? Can you be more specified what you have ran exactly?