[PSA] Do not download or update Classic Shell or Audacity !

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The official download of Classic Shell has been compromised so that it contains a virus that'll overwrite your MBR (the information needed to boot an OS)

Reportedly Audacity is affected as well.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/4vw21h/massive_psa_do_not_download_classic_shell_read/

 
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Reportedly it's the file hoster (FossHub) rather than the programs themselves. Just don't go on fosshub and check digital signatures if you happened to download from there in the last 24 hours.

Close shave for me, installed Classicshell 2 days ago after my hard drive corrupted and had to reformat it and install everything. This would have majorly pissed me off.
Last Edit: August 03, 2016, 07:29:21 AM by PsygnIrish

 
 
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Quote from: challengerX on August 03, 2016, 07:28:11 AM
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The official download host for the third-party Windows add-on Classic Shell (giving an Windows 7-like start menu to 8 and 10) has been hacked. It now contains a virus that'll make it so you can't boot Windows.

If you already have it you should be fine as long as you're not updating, or if you want to get it do it from another (reliable) source.