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As others have pointed out, SourceForge has become a malware distribution network.
by jackmaney 11y ago
As others have pointed out, SourceForge has become a malware distribution network.
- radiorental 11y agoI haven't seen evidence of malware, just adware wrappers from sourceforge. It's a small, but important, difference.
- sbarre 11y agoDepends on your definition of malware I guess.
- makomk 11y agoIt's hard to see exactly what SourceForge are offering because apparently they do VM detection and their installer is much better behaved when running in a VM, and most folks don't have a spare physical machine they can test it on and wipe afterwards. Which I think says a lot about how malicious their installers actually are.
- lambda 11y agoadware is a type of malware.