I have been using it for the last couple of years now and have never had any sort of issue like you are describing. Maybe the site has been injected with something or your friends invite was malicious?
LastPass installs malware?
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#13Do you still have the original zip file that you downloaded? Could you check the MD5sum and post it here?
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#14I have been using it for the last couple of years now and have never had any sort of issue like you are describing. Maybe the site has been injected with something or your friends invite was malicious?
I've verified the invite was all lastpass.com.
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#15Do you still have the original zip file that you downloaded? Could you check the MD5sum and post it here?
I posted a response to a request for a sha256sum - I had the same sum as the one posted. If providing md5sum helps further, I will.
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#16I can confidently say that this was not from the LastPass install -- we would never include malware (our reputation is based on trust built up over many years, this would shatter it).
The md5 of our download is 0290ce268f6e57b1ce26bb21748b12eb, it was last updated on Mar 4.
It most likely came from a different source.
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#17I can confidently say that this was not from the LastPass install -- we would never include malware (our reputation is based on trust built up over many years, this would shatter it). The md5 of our download is 0290ce268f6e57b1ce26bb21748b12eb, it was last updated on Mar 4. It most likely came from a different source.
I absolutely agree - a reputation is easily shattered, which is why it seems incredulous that you guys were actually knowingly behind this.
Like I said, however - the issues disappeared upon uninstallation of the lastpass browser extension pack for OSX, and it certainly seemed to appear on its installation.
For everyone's sake, let's all hope I was idiotic at some prior point and somehow had a different drive-by install...
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#18OP here.
The only thing that I can come up with is that I happened across a malicious page that did a drive-by install of some malware that magically disappeared upon browser restart (which both the lastpass installer and uninstaller force in order to get their extensions registered).
At least, that's what I'm hoping, or I've still got malware on my system!