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elibroftw / music-caster

Music Caster is a modern music player with the ability to cast audio files, system audio, and URLs to Google Chromecasts, Google Home/Nest Minis, etc.
https://elijahlopez.ca/music-caster/
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Winget version seems to install crypto miner #54

Closed Build-0-Matic closed 2 years ago

Build-0-Matic commented 2 years ago

Just to let you know that the version that you download using winget seems to download a crypto miner. It gets flagged right away by the antivirus software.

elibroftw commented 2 years ago

Windows Anti-Virus reports it as a crypto miner?

elibroftw commented 2 years ago

Is the setup flagged or the actual executable?

Build-0-Matic commented 2 years ago

Avast flags it as unwanted and blocks the connection. So I told it to whitelist it and installed anyway. Then I went to run it and Avast once more blocked the program. So I went to the install folder and found about 50 files including some that say they are related to crypto (it's in the file name). There is no updater present like on the portable version. It has a ton of timezone data and a whole bunch of files and folders that I don't recognize from the portable version.

elibroftw commented 2 years ago

Okay I will file a report with Avast

Build-0-Matic commented 2 years ago

I'd try and do a winget update on my machine first as I'm really not sure that what it installs is what you put online. I feel somebody is taking advantage of the situation as the only thing in the program that looks remotely like the portable one is the icon and the name. As I said, it's got no updater and a whole lot of other stuff not found in the portable version.

elibroftw commented 2 years ago

You'll have to whitelist the install folder in avast since avast doesn't want to whitelist music Caster.