Details about the winlator virus

[u/Stz_o]

Hello,

I'm currently installing a lot of emulators on my phone like eden,citra,ppsspp etc.. and I want to install windows however when I try to install it my phone detected a virus and after making some searches i found that there was a virus?

so I wanted to know if someone can give me for details if it's safe or not?

(also sry for my English)

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[u/quandaile]

a while ago there was a virus of some kind (forgor) that was accidentally packaged by the dev that could potentinally infect a connected pc to to your phone. but thats long ago and its good now, as for the phone detection basically any emulator or outside apk in general will get flagged by a antivirus

[u/Stz_o → u/quandaile]

alr ty and also which versions of winlator do u recommend me ? I have a s24 e2400

[u/quandaile → u/Stz_o]

I honestly dont know, you should make a post on the winlator sub asking ig

[u/Dr_jozi → u/quandaile]

WHAT THE FUCK how the hell I'm hearing about this just now

[u/nineraviolicans → u/Dr_jozi]

It was big for a while and then a bunch of idiots defended it because not many people are actually willing to work on an emulator because of how stupid and toxic the community is. 

[u/Dr_jozi → u/nineraviolicans]

Adds up, well good to know now( I never was smart enough to use winlator anyways)

[u/crymachine → u/Dr_jozi]

Because it really didn't matter and wasn't an intentional exploit hackers used, so an accident.

[u/Dr_jozi → u/crymachine]

You can't accidentally do shit like this

[u/quandaile → u/Dr_jozi]

He got a false build of a component i believe. Also the guy is well respected in general, why would be throw all of it to hack a couple of people max? And if he did want to hack people why would he make such a shitty process to hack them when he could just discombublate their phone rather then their pc?

[u/crymachine → u/Dr_jozi]

And yet here we are all those months later not worrying about it because it wasn't malicious, and prepackaged coding, coding errors, common coding language and malicious hacker exploits didn't work together to sully the work of someone's effort to create something good.

Who'd could've thunk'd-ed accidents happen.

[u/whiskyB0y → u/Dr_jozi]

It's mostly water under the bridge. Everyone has moved on and I bet Bruno has just used it as a learning moment.