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You had links to those projects, now removed.

Stupid question. Was it bad that I clicked on the github.com links? This is not something spread just with viewing the links, right?

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You're safe. You have to compile the projects with Xcode

But if I pull that code and compile it, my executable will have the malware in it? I've never done anything in the MacOS ecosystem at all, so I'm just asking.

No, if you pull that code and "compile" it with xcode, it will run scripts that install malware on your machine. I assume once the malware is on your machine, it can infect other xcode projects on your machine.

Thanks for the reply!

No risk as previous replier mentioned. I provided only the repo names for people who are afraid that they might have dependencies on an infected project.

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