This is the ideal thing a hacker would do. Reports say that codes are a hacker's sweet spot. Because most of the time a random person would visit the code and copy and paste it because he has to get the job done in a limited time. Nothing could actually be 100% trusted in the internet. Because websites that might seem legitimate might be not. And true websites could be copied easily.
On Tue, Mar 31, 2020, 11:44 PM Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 3:31 AM <dcwhat...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I don't have control over this, Chris. This is at my office. I'm not > the resource who manages network or other settings. And we have various > anti-spyware in place, that at leasts mitigates the risk. > > > > Then talk to the person who does. Ask if s/he is okay with you > downloading untrusted code from the internet and running it with your > full permissions. Then ask if it would be better to be able to trust > that code's origin. > > > What I'm doing isn't unprecedented. People get false positives all the > time on the web, and ask for this type of assistance. Maybe my results > were real evidence of something funky, but either way I have to get work > done. > > > > Yes, you have to get work done, so you ran random code from the > internet, downloaded on an unsecured connection, when the evidence > clearly showed that you were NOT getting it from the official source. > > > Thanks for trying to help, anyway. I'll do a compare of the refreshed > PIP files on the office PC, to a copy of pip elsewhere that I know is legit. > > > > Good luck. Chances are you won't know you've been hit with any spyware > or anything, so you'll feel confident. > > ChrisA > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
