Re: Phix 1.0.5 uploaded
- Posted by petelomax in June
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Update/Alarm/Query:
I opened GitHub Desktop yesterday and was rather alarmed to see 572 files had changed since 1.0.5 was shipped two weeks ago.
Most of them were exe/dll, which immediately triggered the thought "Oh dear, something has run round infecting them".... but:
a) that's not the behaviour of a "stealth" virus or something that 90%+ of antivirus checkers would miss,
b) on closer inspection they were never being stored in the repository... I think, and which makes some sense.
There was a new version of GitHub Desktop on the 5th that has already downloaded itself here, and has to be a prime suspect.
Does anyone have a local copy of the Phix repository they cloned, ideally 1..5 years ago? Linux perhaps slightly better than Windows.
If so, a) does it have any exe/dll files?, and b) have I mangled the .gitignore file (esp first 50 lines) somehow?
Windows Defender is still giving everything the green light here, not a squeak, and everything else seems fine.
