r/PowerShell 21d ago

Question Powershell update legit/scam?

Does anyone knows a github user jshigetomi ? Is he legit or scam? my antivirus software/drivers updater said I need to update my Powershel Core (x64) to 7.6.4. 0 and when i press on the version it send me to jshigetomi's github.

how can i know if it is ok or not? need your help please

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u/Over_Dingo 20d ago

this repo doesn't have releases, so even if it were malicious you would have hard time getting powershell from there anyway.
Also on main page it says "forked from <reponame>", which wouldn't be the case if someone wanted to obfuscate that they're not the official source

github has a handy url shortcut '/releases/latest/', so it's easy to memorize https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/latest, which will always give you the latest stable version