[tyingq]

I'm guessing a common sequence is someone knowing what curl is, but not knowing that Windows ships with it. So, thinking that System32\curl.exe must have been put there by malware, or put there by someone installing optional software.

[Freak_NL]

Microsoft should have renamed it to WINDLHLP.COM or something Windowsy like that, and none of these people would have dared touch it.

[tyingq]

I noticed that "curl" in PowerShell is an alias, so you would have to deliberately say "curl.exe" to get System32\curl.exe

  C:\> alias curl

  CommandType     Name                                               Version    
  Source
  -----------     ----                                               -------    ------
  Alias           curl -> Invoke-WebRequest

[phpisthebest]

That is for Windows Powershell, not Powershell (and yes Windows Powershell is different from PowerShell [1])

curl > curl.exe > C:\Windows\System32\curl.exe

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/whats...

[thomasjudge]

This is so Microsoft

[VWWHFSfQ]

Yeah they did the same thing with wget. Just absolutely bonkers

[justeleblanc]

That's not the case in the latest versions of powershell.