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Trojans, Spyware and Miners. Oh my.

• EForEndeavour 5y ago
  Naive questions: - what do you mean by "miners" in this context? Malicious contributors sneaking crypto-mining logic into the codebase? - doesn't the concern about Trojans and spyware affect every other open-source project in existence? How have they been protecting against that, and why couldn't the Winamp maintainers take similar measures?
  • RF_Savage 5y ago
    More like precompiled binaries being distributed by malicious stuff added in. How will you know which winamp.exe is the legitimate one?
    • dale_glass 5y ago
      Code signing has been a thing in Windows for a long time now. Besides that, just the usual "the official .exe is whatever you find at the official site" Downloading from random archive sites fortunately is a trend that went away.