Comment by p-e-w

I was referring to the practice of downloading executables from such forums in general, not to your post specifically. I have no reason to suspect that this particular post contains any malware. But in most parts of the software world, Open Source has been the standard for experimental publications for a long, long time, and seeing a forum depart so strongly from that standard is certainly surprising, and does of course have security implications when this practice is used at scale.