Bitcoin-qt vs Electrum

WARNING: A fake electrum website with malware is advertising on duckduckgo and yahoo.

If you perform a search for electrum on duckduckgo or yahoo, an ad claiming to be electrum.org will be at the top.

In reality the ad links to:
electrum-bitcoin org

This site is nearly identical to electrum.org except the download links give different files. All three of the files that can be download are much smaller than the real electrum and are most likely malware.
The three files are:
electrum.exe – 91136 bytes
electrum.out – 60316 bytes
electrum.zip – 32478 bytes

When installing software, especially something as import as wallet software, it is a good idea to verify the integrity of the download with a signature using a key that was obtained from one or more seperate sources.

I made a list of the keys used to sign popular bitcoin wallets below to act as another source to verify the integrity of those keys.

The signatures provided for some of the wallets are signatures of the hash values, so be sure to verify that the hash of the downloaded file matches the hash that was signed.