Talk:CDex

message: CDex is Malware that installs software on your computer (e.g. AVG toolbar) without consent and that is very difficult to remove  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.25.12.255 (talk) 10:25, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The project has not published any source code for a long time despite making new releases. Therefore, I think it should not be listed as Open Source/GPL anymore.
The project site offers a download of the CDex 1.70 beta 2 source code which is from 2006 while the code in SVN was last updated in 2008. The latest release is CDex 1.78 from 2015. I asked for up to date sources on their SourceForge support forum, but the post was deleted by the project admins. An email asking for the same was silently ignored.
I think this software should be listed as freeware.
78.50.176.60 (talk) 17:33, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Licensing issues 

message: This article needs more valid sources to support what appears to be OR and POV in the later part of the article.24.235.74.199 (talk) 20:17, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Malware again

message: I went into the CDex website and found that the current code maintaner's name is "codingmaster". It's not a real name, but a username. Probably a suspicious one, used to hide the code maintainer's true identity. codingmaster is also writing release blog posts and posting them on the website's home page. There are currently three blog posts, one of them has an unknown poster. Go to the website and check out those blog posts.
Website link: https://cdex.mu/
DarthonTheOverseer (talk) 14:59, 25 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Info about the current code maintainer 

message: The Facts:
# The website links to source code and bug tracking have all been removed from https://cdex.mu/
# https://cdex.mu/ formerly pointed to source code and bug tracking at http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/.
# The last source code was published in 2008. (According to above discussion. It used to be available via SVN at https://cdexos.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/cdexos/cdex1/trunk/cdexos or https://svn.code.sf.net/p/cdexos/code/cdex1/trunk )
# While the CDex source code seems fine, the installer has long been bundling potentially unwanted programs.
# The http://cdex.mu/ website began in 2013.
I'm inclined to remove links to cdex.mu as hazardous and direct users to CDex Portable, which uses the same core program but doesn't included the bundled programs from the installer. Daask (talk) 21:05, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: You say that "the source code seems fine", but I've not seen any evidence of anyone other than the owner of CDex.mu seeing the source code since version 1.70. Note that the "Portable Apps" version doesn't actually recompile the source, it simply bypasses the installer of a copy of the program downloaded from CDex.mu. If you don't trust the owner of CDex.mu, that sounds like a bad strategy - just because no recognised malware is detected in the executable files, doesn't mean those executable files aren't doing anything malicious. - IMSoP (talk) 09:34, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hostile takeover 

message: Might we consider https://github.com/elha/CDex the new official version? Daask (talk) 21:05, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Forks