Please point out the prsonal attack and note pointing out the age of your account and post is not a personal attack…its a fact.
Essentially calling someone a newb, calling multiple people maligned, "maybe read more type less", etc. You sling shade left and right. The whole point of my comment was you can help people without being a passive-aggressive prick about it.
You are spreading FUD by stating that PM should explain why you think there is malware in it and claim you d/l it from the site. That is FUD.
Hugely ironic you're telling people to read more and type less. If you actually bothered to read my comments, you would see I didn't say it has malware. I said Windows Defender *flags* it as malware. Simply backing up what others have seen. No need to get so aggressive about it.
Ill be the first to say be careful of what you load and what you use and where you get it from. The file was either from a non OP 1st page link or it was from another source which are both much more likely since currently its been 0 times from PM in 5 years and untold total downloads and rigs running PM.
Again, reading comprehension. As I said, I can't vouch for others but I downloaded it from the OP as *you* suggested and saw the flags as others reported. I repeat for your benefit... I am not saying it *is* malware, just *flagged* as malware.
Ive just rerun all recent versions through virustotal and zero hits / flags. You either didnt use the OP link or you already had it on your system.
Again, never said I caught anything. Also wasn't talking about virustotal. That's good to know, but it's silly to tell someone else what they're seeing is wrong when you haven't even looked at it the way they did.
You do realize that PM provides .asc with hashes to confirm you are getting the real thing.
That just makes it a lot harder for a bad actor to manipulate. That bad actor could be the PM author or someone else that compromised them. It may be highly unlikely, but not the impossibility you would like to make it out to be.
I'm not going to reply to you any further because I can't imagine you'll honestly process what I said given your last response.
For the record, I downloaded the latest version. I just think users are right to recognize there's a small risk there and should protect themselves accordingly.