Open SlimRG opened 3 years ago
This is starting to get a very needed feature, with the availiability of tools sich as winget-ui, packages will need some credentiability so that a simple gui user can decide which one is commonly installed and which one is not.
Everything is already scanned by Defender before it ever makes its way to the public repo
Everything is already scanned by Defender before it ever makes its way to the public repo
Credibility is more than whether something is malicious.
The original post specifically talks about concerns involving AV....
Original poster made two proposals , im talking about download count, as valid point of trust.
Is there any update on this enhancement request regarding the download count?
https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues/1238#issue-934087161
@SlimRG, why has a download counter been conflated with an antivirus detection indicator? These are entirely separate FRs. I suggest that all discussion of the AV detection indicator be transferred to a separate issue.
Yeah just give us download count first please.
Today users have no feedback information. It will be better if we know for exemple - how many times app was downloaded
Another problem is conflicts with Windows Malware Protection. Some apps after installation will cause anti-virus aggression (for example IoBit products) In my opinion it will be better if we can see, for example (Ⓜ) , if programm is safe for use with Microsoft Antivirus