It was through Mozilla Firefox though, so it might behave differently on
different browsers.
On 24/02/2021 07:28, J. Gareth Moreton via fpc-devel wrote:
I tried to download the file but the link had me download an installer
for the file instead, which installed malware.
Gareth aka. Kit
On 24/02/2021 07:25, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-devel wrote:
Gareth,
I don't know what you've been doing on that site, but I downloaded
the bugreport
file without problems. I didn't have to install anything, just
downloaded a
zip without the need to download or install anything else. The zip file
contains only (a lot of) pascal files.
I agree the method is somewhat unusual but as far as I can see the
download
is bona fide.
Michael.
On Wed, 24 Feb 2021, J. Gareth Moreton wrote:
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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