Seems strange that the dev seems to be keeping quiet on this, no?
Which one? The repo owner certainly doesn't seem very active in general.
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It's a dll injection. Of course it gets flagged as a virus, because technically it is. That doesn't mean that it is malicious.
Here is an example... On paper, reshade is a horrifically dangerous piece of software. It doesn't get flagged only because it is well known and virus scanners have an exception for it.
Any of these geniuses stopped to think that Spotify changing its code and altering the way that it interacts with the dll could result in more "detections"?
So, the "[edit: ~~last~~] previous update" was built from ac41318, since then there were exactly 2 commits:
Both do not immediately look malicious. So, either the release is poisoned (in which case you can build it from source and see if still detected), or the repo was poisoned before, and the payload didn't activate until those changes, or AVs decided to crackdown on random shit running their code in other law-abiding processes' address space 🤣
I wouldn't download / update until this gets resolved. Or maybe look for alternatives, or compile/build it yourself. It doesn't necessarily mean it's the developers fault. Could be something else. But maybe don't download something that might contain a Trojan.
Seems strange that the dev seems to be keeping quiet on this, no?
the issue was just posted 7 hours ago. maybe they just haven't seen it yet.
someone in issue #573 asked if the dpapi file is really needed, and by looking at the manual installation instructions, yes, because that contains all the code.
the developer loads custom code into the spotify process by using such an "override" dll file. it works because spotify is voluntarily loading a dll with this name, and if there's such a file in the directory besides the .exe file, it'll take precedence over the original file installed in the system.
the trojan warning is probably triggered because this technique is often used by malware to change the behaviour of your programs, but as with most technologies, it has good uses too
the issue was just posted 7 hours ago. maybe they just haven't seen it yet.
There are multiple posts going back 5 days of people asking about it. Check closed issues too, the dev even responded to some of them by saying it's only a false positive.
Looks like the previous version only had two positive hits on VirusTotal, according to comments, whereas this newest version has 29.
Some said the previous version is still available. I don't really have skin in the game, so nobody should take my advice without doing your due diligence.
They could be away and not checking on things until they get back.
Or potentially their github account was taken over somehow.
did you want to link #573 ? you only linked the issues list
Nah I linked the issues page on purpose since there are multiple posts talking about it