[fpc-devel] Dangerous download on bug report

[J. Gareth Moreton]

A follow-up.  I did some research on one of the 3rd party tools that was 
installed... IdleBuddy.  IT IS MALWARE.  Specifically it is a crypto 
miner (one that uses your resources and gives the credit to someone else).

Ironically, I use my laptop for crypto mining, so all my hardware 
resources are in use anyway!  Still, you bet I'm going to be giving my 
laptop a thorough scan now.  Curses.

Gareth aka. Kit

On 24/02/2021 05:54, J. Gareth Moreton via fpc-devel wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> This is a bit of a public service announcement.  I tried to look at 
> this bug:
>
> https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=38451
>
> The poster offered a ZIP download of their project, but it's hosted by 
> a questionable site, since it requires browser add-ons (including 
> Adobe Flash) and a client program (which apparently was digitally 
> signed and recognised by Windows).  It installed Opera and a number of 
> 3rd Party Windows Services without permission. I've managed to 
> uninstall said programs, and now I'm running a full virus scan 
> because, frankly, I don't trust everything to be gone.
>
> I made a post on the bug report suggesting the author use a different 
> download provider.  But long story short, DO NOT DOWNLOAD FROM THE 
> LINK PROVIDED.
>
> Gareth aka. Kit
>
>

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