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Comment by Razengan

5 years ago

Eeks, this should be communicated better, though to be fair, IF there was any malware with a tampered signature, you wouldn’t want it to run just because your network was unplugged.

How would you prevent something like [0]?

I think all the game consoles regularly verify downloaded games too.

[0] https://blog.malwarebytes.com/threat-analysis/2016/09/transm...

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