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Avoid using SourceForge tools to prevent potentially unwanted programms from being installedΒ #274

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This is just one of the spots I just found, there might be more across the repository:

powershell -Command "(New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadFile('http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/ultradefrag/stable-release/6.1.0/ultradefrag-portable-6.1.0.bin.amd64.zip', 'C:\Windows\Temp\ultradefrag.zip')" <NUL

I want to open for discussion to avoid using tools directly downloaded from sourceforge. SourceForge has a history of bundling software packages of unknowing authors with adware. The project was called Devshare and once SourceForge was aquired by Bizx, they said they stop this programm after massive backlash. But the site is stll full of adds and has lost almost all of its reputation.

The mentioned snipped is for defragging the disk. A task that can be easily handled with native windows tools (see for example https://github.com/jacqinthebox/packer-templates/blob/master/scripts/windows-compress.ps1 )

It would be nice if we could find such external tools and reduce their usage where possible, avoid them where native alternatives exist and avoid them if they come from sourceforge.

Any opinions?

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