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O&O ShutUp10++: Free antispy tool for Windows 10 and 11 (www.oo-software.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/privacy@programming.dev
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If for some ungodly reason you are using Windows or maybe are forced to. Here's some software that will remove all the spyware from it. You have to select what you want removed manually for best results

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[–] 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

As an aside, please don't pipe arbitrary code from the internet directly into execution. Download the file and read it first. Someone could easily pwn that site and host malware at that URL, for example.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    read it first

    and if you're not a programmer and/or don't understand code?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Weirdly, Chris does have a GitHub repo for it, which would be way more secure for serving downloads, but it's not mentioned on the download page. We're also assuming that Chris is trustworthy and has not included a malicious payload into this file, in which case it wouldn't matter if the file is correct - it would still be malicious.

    My advice is don't run things you don't understand or that people you trust have not vouched for. If you use Linux, you inherently trust your repository maintainers to not serve you malicious code and to audit the packages they are maintaining, so you can be delivered safe software from secure repositories without needing to understand every line of code. This isn't 100% bulletproof, as we saw with the XZ Utils backdoor, but it's a hell of a lot safer than piping things raw.

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  • [+] -6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Paste it into ChatGPT and ask it to explain what's happening.
    And look for anything that you don't like

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Or don't use AI to read what is essentially a list of commands.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago

    For someone that isn't a programmer that is wanting to understand what a script is doing... "Just read the commands" isn't going to work.

    It's like speaking English and being given an instruction manual in French and being expected to understand how a machine is working. You will recognise some borrowed words, but you aren't going to understand it.
    "Just read the french manual" or "just learn french" aren't going to work for a consumer wanting to get the machine to work.

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