# WTF is this Website??

**URL:** <https://forums.balena.io/t/wtf-is-this-website/305989>\
**Category:** balenaEtcher\
**Created:** [April 30, 2021, 6:57am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/wtf-is-this-website/305989 "2021-04-30T06:57:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![jb000000000000001](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d2c977/32.png) [@jb000000000000001](https://forums.balena.io/u/jb000000000000001)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2021, 6:57am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/wtf-is-this-website/305989/1 "2021-04-30T06:57:08Z")

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[https://balenaetcher.eu/](https://balenaetcher.eu/)

this claims to be the official balena etcher website but it looks like a scam and I got it as the first result on a duckduckgo search just now

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**Author:** ![mpous](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/mpous/32/4742_2.png) [@mpous](https://forums.balena.io/u/mpous)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2021, 9:59am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/wtf-is-this-website/305989/6 "2021-04-30T09:59:33Z")

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Hello! Thank you for letting us know about this website.

Actually we reported this website some days ago and hopefully it will be offline soon.

Feel free to let us know if you find any other malicious page.

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**Author:** ![d0000000000000000001](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cab0a1/32.png) [@d0000000000000000001](https://forums.balena.io/u/d0000000000000000001)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2021, 7:22am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/wtf-is-this-website/305989/8 "2021-05-01T07:22:48Z")

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It is distributing versions of the software with Malware embedded.

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**Author:** ![thundron](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/thundron/32/1379_2.png) [@thundron](https://forums.balena.io/u/thundron)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2021, 8:55am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/wtf-is-this-website/305989/9 "2021-05-01T08:55:21Z")

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Hi, yes that software is highly likely to be dangerous, please refrain from using that website or any associated with it. We’re trying to have it put down but we don’t know how long it will take as it’s not something we’re in total control of. I would advise to report the website (which we already did for example) so that maybe also search engines stop considering it a good source