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Re: Whats up with search machine?
by
o_e_l_e_o
on 28/09/2018, 09:21:28 UTC
Yeah, unfortunately DuckDuckGo doesn't return great results for the forum, and also returns a lot of the ".to" extension, which is a phishing site. If you entered your details on that site, then you need to change your password immediately.

As mentioned, including "site:bitcointalk.org" at the end of your search will limit your results to the real forum only.



I'll also just quote this post by LoyceV for anyone who is interested - to protect yourself in the future you can block your computer from accessing the ".to" site.

You can use your hosts-file to stop your computer from ever accessing that site again.

I totally fell for the cloned site, until I realized I couldn't see your trust ratings.
I have added this line to /etc/hosts
Code:
127.0.0.1       bitcointalk.to
Now my computer can't access that phishing site anymore.

https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts (scroll down a bit to see many different categories hosts files). The one mentioned above isn't on it though, so I've added it by myself.

If you don't know how to do this: How to Edit Your Hosts File on Windows, Mac, or Linux.