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Windows malware reported (boinc.berkeley.edu)

submitted 5 months ago by testman@lemmy.ml to c/boinc@sopuli.xyz

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[–] makeasnek@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago

from the link: "We have received several reports of malware that installs and runs the 8.0.2 BOINC client on Windows computers. We are investigating this; we currently don't know how the malware works or how to defeat it. We'll report whatever we learn here.

This is not a vulnerability in BOINC; rather, it's malware that illegally installs BOINC."