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Message 84819 - Posted: 17 Feb 2018, 20:48:22 UTC
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I typed "boinc" into the M$ofts Edge browser, pressed return, and ended up at scienceunited.org. This was unexpected and I thought a virus had taken over my browser. Looks like boinc but with another name. I assume it is legit as I ended up here in this forum when poking around.
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Message 84820 - Posted: 17 Feb 2018, 21:18:38 UTC
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Its David’s changes to BOINC. It sums it up on the Project -> About page. See also Boinc News

The http site has a redirect to science united and the secure one (https) is BOINC.
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Message 84821 - Posted: 17 Feb 2018, 21:57:24 UTC

Looks like the redirect was removed. From boinctasks, clicking on "boinc" goes to the correct page. For about 45 minutes it went to ScienceUnited.
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