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@foss In reference to this post- https://lemmy.ml/post/6374732 (media.mas.to)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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@foss In reference to this post- https://lemmy.ml/post/6374732

For Molly, I kept seeing this popup by Google when downloading Molly FOSS from fdroid.

Should I be concerned? What should I do to ensure I am downloading Molly from a trusted source if Fdroid isn't an ideal place (due to misleading names as depicted in the referenced post)?

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Eh, I think there's definitely some legitimacy to doing a virus scan for applications with unrecognised signatures

Not everyone knows how to (or even can for many apps) manually verify the authenticity of their apks

And plenty of non-technical people will just install random shit from the internet without thinking

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

And yet most malware comes from the Play store.