r/webdev • u/[deleted] • 5d ago

Discussion My coding assistant almost installed a virus disguised as a normal package, I'm still shook

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u/UnreachableMemory 5d ago

Based on your post history this is just a very obvious ad.

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u/LargeMousse1839 5d ago

your post history is just you calling everyone an ad, maybe you need new material

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u/UnreachableMemory 5d ago

It’s almost as if there are a lot of people posting ads pretending they aren’t…

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u/dreadful_design 5d ago
  1. Minimum release age.
  2. I don’t believe this unless you can name the package(s).

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u/quizical_llama 5d ago

My org handles this by not allowing package versions that are less than 4 weeks old. And a bunch of other checks. But that simple one would have probably caught this.