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this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2023
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I opened this post all scared that I might've accidentally downloaded malware and my fuckin' AV alerted
yeah yeah I know piracy and AVs don't generally mix
I get a notification of malware from that address pretty often, could someone explain what it is?
My guess is that it's an instance of some federated platform talking to lemmy, which has once been used to serve malware by one of its users. AFAIK lemmy only fetch avatars directly from instances, but it's a privacy nightmare which, admittedly easy to say for one who doesn't pay for storage space, should be mitigated with a caching mediaproxy.