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What would happen if a legimate program, OS, or game somehow had a virus or malware installed on it from the official source?
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<blockquote data-quote="brambedkar59" data-source="post: 948881" data-attributes="member: 61084"><p>There is not much you can do except hope AV will finally discover the malware running on the system. In case of <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/ccleaner-malware-targeted-tech-firms/" target="_blank">CCleaner malware</a> in 2017 it collected user data for at least 4 days as seen on their C&C server copy.</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.reuters.com/article/us-security-avast/hackers-compromised-ccleaner-free-software-avasts-piriform-says-idUSKCN1BT0R9[/URL]</p><p>You could wait for a week to install software updates for apps (to let AVs catch up to new updates and run analysis on them) but sometimes they do include security patches, so not really recommended.</p><p></p><p></p><p>That's practically not possible for every single app you install, I have more than 50 apps (installed or using portable version) of which 15 are regularly used. The amount of time it would take checking every single app changelog or blog post would be insane, considering they update most updates many times a month.</p><p>Edit - Typo</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="brambedkar59, post: 948881, member: 61084"] There is not much you can do except hope AV will finally discover the malware running on the system. In case of [URL='https://www.wired.com/story/ccleaner-malware-targeted-tech-firms/']CCleaner malware[/URL] in 2017 it collected user data for at least 4 days as seen on their C&C server copy. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.reuters.com/article/us-security-avast/hackers-compromised-ccleaner-free-software-avasts-piriform-says-idUSKCN1BT0R9[/URL] You could wait for a week to install software updates for apps (to let AVs catch up to new updates and run analysis on them) but sometimes they do include security patches, so not really recommended. That's practically not possible for every single app you install, I have more than 50 apps (installed or using portable version) of which 15 are regularly used. The amount of time it would take checking every single app changelog or blog post would be insane, considering they update most updates many times a month. Edit - Typo [/QUOTE]
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