[aur-general] AUR airvpn-portable changes files in userfolders, DO NOT INSTALL

William Di Luigi williamdiluigi at gmail.com
Wed Mar 30 15:12:48 UTC 2016


But is deleting the package really the best route? Why not let the
maintainer know and let them fix the package? This is not a virus isn't it?

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016, 16:22 Alad Wenter <alad at archlinux.info> wrote:

> On 30.03.2016 16:04, LoneVVolf wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > The package airvpn-portable [1] installs files in userfolders [2] and
> > imo should be deleted ASAP.
> > I filed a deletion request,but felt this issue is serious enough to
> > warn about this package.
> >
> > I would like to advise users to remove it from their systems
> > immediately, but don't know if additonal steps are needed to clean up
> > the mess it created,.
> >
> > Lone_Wolf
> >
> > [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/airvpn-portable/
> > [2] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=210720
>
> peazip-portable (by the same maintainer) has similar issues.
>
> Alad
>


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