Originally Posted by Petrah
You most certainly did not get infected by using Minion. That's a guarantee.
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IncGamers swore the same thing up and down about their update client when a series of security breaches began happening to people who were using it.
The row went on for a good week or two- people insisting the client was infected, and the webmaster denying that such a thing was even possible- before someone finally verified that it was in fact, copies of the update client that were being infected at the server level that were at the root of the problem.
I'm not saying it
is the case here, but there's
no certainty, and no guarantee strong enough to make me want to use an update client. It's a risk, a significant risk. And no matter how upstanding your intentions, or how valiant your efforts are to minimize it, it will
always be a risk.
Methinks you may be living in a fantasy land where computer security
isn't always a constant game of one-upsmanship between the hackers and the software authors.