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by psykovsky 4039 days ago
Bitcoin is on there also. Now that is worrying.
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It doesn't neccessarily mean all of them are affected, but I think it's a call for a close inspection.
I download the bitcoin .exe, and it came clean, with the right signatures, but who knows how they are distributing the stuff. I have a Ubuntu computer. If they're at least a bit smart they will use their download redirects to serve the spyware only to Windows computers or something, so that could be why I got a clean binary. Bitcoin devs investigated, at my request. They removed the sf-editor1 user from the project owners and checked the binaries to see if sigs matched, and they did. But like I said, they could be filtering who they serve the "spyware" to.