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[rattekarl]

Hey, I would love to see this browser become an actual replacement for Arc some day. I was wondering why the browser is built on Electron?

[mcouvill]

Why did installing flow change my default terminal window to zsh? Absolutely hosed my system since it relies on another shell for key startup systems. Changing my system wide default shell without notifying me first is a huge, virus like, behavior.

[iamEvanYT]

Installing flow should absolutely not do that. Are you sure it's flow causing it?

[mcouvill]

I agree but according to the logs during install it called "pacman -S --noconfirm --noprogressbar --needed --disable-download-timeout cachyos-zsh-config" and installed zsh and configured zsh to be the default shell system wide. I had literally run a Timeshift right before (I always do this before testing software) and a restore to that checkpoint restored everything. The only thing done was installing Flow.

I don't know if someone snuck something in the package but I did not have zsh installed before flow and suddenly it was there after. ANy command running a noconfirm and noprogressbar and needed and disables the download timeout sets off so many red flags.

I do believe you guys are legit, but something is not behaving as expected.

[Chulpo]

I wrote a reply to you here.
I looks like I made a new post instead of replying directly to you.
Here it is again:

I found something that may or may not be related:

WHOIS. description: A sample of flow-browser-main, an unauthorised version of the web browser, has been detected by researchers at the University of

Source: https://socradar.io/free-tools/ioc-radar/this.browserwindow.id

It's under WHOIS to the right. It's incomplete and I can't find the rest of it anywhere. I does tell us that someone has been up to something malicious.

You're on CachyOS? Did you get it from the AUR by chance?

[Chulpo]

I found something that may or may not be related:

WHOIS. description: A sample of flow-browser-main, an unauthorised version of the web browser, has been detected by researchers at the University of

Source: https://socradar.io/free-tools/ioc-radar/this.browserwindow.id

It's under WHOIS to the right. It's incomplete and I can't find the rest of it anywhere. I does tell us that someone has been up to something malicious.

You're on CachyOS? Did you get it from the AUR by chance?