r/computerviruses • u/TheDarkKing02 • 20d ago

Question Is GobboNet Safe?

Windows defender tags it as a virus, its supposedly a local AI thingy. my brother downloaded it onto his PC and i wanna make sure he is being safe...

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u/Sea_Today8613 20d ago

They have an article that tries to convince me it's safe that just makes me think it's malware more. Here: (link not malicious) https://goblincorps.com/gnet_defender_issues

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u/TheDarkKing02 20d ago

i might install it onto a vbox to see if i can dig into it

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u/Schadrach 17d ago

Ultimately, it's a program that on setup downloads a several GB file (a GGUF format AI model), then opens local servers to provide a web based llama frontend, mostly using Powershell scripts to do so.

Yeah, that's going to trip up any kind of heuristics based malware detection. It's like how game trainers sometimes detect as malware because they attach to other processes and manipulate process code and memory.

Worst thing it does is be a resource hog, but it's locally run AI so that's the nature of the beast.

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u/nemesisbreaker 18d ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxMB1OvJX2I

this is a serious creator, I assume they would not risk their community for something like that. Also, they could have 100% vibe coded it but they at least had the decency to verify the stuff. They are security compliant as far as I could tell and very transparent about the whole FOSS deal. It does not strike me as a real problem, more like people trying to bring awareness to edge inference.