A follow-up. I did some research on one of the 3rd party tools that was
installed... IdleBuddy. IT IS MALWARE. Specifically it is a crypto
miner (one that uses your resources and gives the credit to someone else).
Ironically, I use my laptop for crypto mining, so all my hardware
resources are in use anyway! Still, you bet I'm going to be giving my
laptop a thorough scan now. Curses.
Gareth aka. Kit
On 24/02/2021 05:54, J. Gareth Moreton via fpc-devel wrote:
Hi everyone,
This is a bit of a public service announcement. I tried to look at
this bug:
https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=38451
The poster offered a ZIP download of their project, but it's hosted by
a questionable site, since it requires browser add-ons (including
Adobe Flash) and a client program (which apparently was digitally
signed and recognised by Windows). It installed Opera and a number of
3rd Party Windows Services without permission. I've managed to
uninstall said programs, and now I'm running a full virus scan
because, frankly, I don't trust everything to be gone.
I made a post on the bug report suggesting the author use a different
download provider. But long story short, DO NOT DOWNLOAD FROM THE
LINK PROVIDED.
Gareth aka. Kit
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