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I don't think anyone has the time to audit every line to ensure there's nothing malicious in there. On a side note, this also made me realize my desktop barely has any non-mainstream "low-trust" applications anymore. Back in the early 2000s, I remember my computer is filled with random win32 apps. The most fringe app I have now is "Bulk Rename Utility".
People need to speak with their wallet otherwise nothing will change.
People need to speak with their wallet otherwise nothing will change.
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Well, the "Smart" screen says that WinMerge and KDiff3 are malwares. Naturally I trust both of them more than so called SmartScreen because unlike Smartscreen, I can inspect their code. Yes, the binaries can contain malware, but the first principles tell me that trustability score is inverse of what is being reported by MS. Naturally I have disabled Smartscreen and Windows defender and admin rights alerts and bajilio…
It sounds like you, sir or madam, need to get rid of Windows entirely. May I suggest macOS (and Parallels running Ubuntu Linux if you like WSL)?
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Well, the "Smart" screen says that WinMerge and KDiff3 are malwares. Naturally I trust both of them more than so called SmartScreen because unlike Smartscreen, I can inspect their code. Yes, the binaries can contain malware, but the first principles tell me that trustability score is inverse of what is being reported by MS. Naturally I have disabled Smartscreen and Windows defender and admin rights alerts and bajilio…
For WinMerge it should be noted that some web-sites out-there offer winmerge binaries for download and I bet that some of them are bundled with spyware (they are not affiliated with the official version, but even my tech-savvy friend was about to download winmerge the other day from a non official source, I noticed him that he should use winmerge.org).
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Well, the "Smart" screen says that WinMerge and KDiff3 are malwares. Naturally I trust both of them more than so called SmartScreen because unlike Smartscreen, I can inspect their code. Yes, the binaries can contain malware, but the first principles tell me that trustability score is inverse of what is being reported by MS. Naturally I have disabled Smartscreen and Windows defender and admin rights alerts and bajilio…
> Well, the "Smart" screen says that WinMerge and KDiff3 are malwares. I've got WinMerge installed on my machines and I've never had that issue. Are you sure you're using trusted sources?