The app does scary stuff in the background - Users should be very very sceptical with this repo!
knixx-fm opened this issue · comments
I just installed this app and it eats up almost all my CPU while the UI states, that it's doing nothing. And it is doing it in some kind of circle.
I looked at your discord and learned that other users experienced the same, for quite some time now. Your fans claim it's got something to do with the stdout.txt. Somebody else said, that this is not true. - I looked at that file. And guess what, it's not the case.
Whatever the scripts are doing in the background, it is not trustworthy.
Same here. It froze my test PC. Looks like a crypto miner or something else. It's most def not a clean tool.
When I saw the installation requirements, I just deleted pinokio, it is scary cause many already in my system but it requires to fresh installation.
The vendor released 10 new version in the last 4 (!) days! And all versions have the same problem. Scripts in the background that spike the CPU up to 100% when the app is idle after starting it. Yeah, that's trustworthy as hell!
I reported the repo. I tried to reach the author, but I guess he's busy counting bitcoins.
What!? Your saying that Mr. Peanut Butter Cup doesn't seem to care?! Unbelievable! I wonder why. :-)
This repo is really kinda funny. I mean 136 open issues on a small project. I highly doubt that this nut has read only one issue.
That's the thing with malware. You just put it out and wait.
hey guys, i'm the creator. first of all, the thing that runs in the background is a logging system (which logs the system status to your local file, which can be used for debugging). Note that this does not use any network which means it's only for your own usage and not sent anywhere. It's literally for your own good when trying to figure out why something is not working.
The intent was to have the most up to date system information.
But I can see the drawback here and will address this in the next immediate release, probably take out the constant systeminfo logging and only do it when explicitly requested. Sorry about that.
The vendor released 10 new version in the last 4 (!) days!
This is a valid point and was a total mistake. I usually publish intermediate releases to my own repo and only publish to this repository when it's ready for production, but this time I made a mistake and kept publishing to this repo during the dev process. Will not be doing that going forward, only major stable releases will be published here.
Lastly, there's no bitcoin miner or whatever going on here. Everything is open source so you can check what is actually happening in the background in the source. For reference, here's how the repo works:
The pinokiocomputer/pinokio repo is an electron distribution that wraps the core engine, which you can find at pinokiocomputer/pinokiod. 99% of the logic is there, so you can check out that repo for the actual code. Hope this helps.
p.s.
Most of the discussions related to the development and bug reports are done through the Discord (i won't link here but you can find it on the homepage if you are interested), so you are right that I haven't been reading the issues. Will probably get answers faster on Discord. Sorry about that. Building this is a lot of work and I am not good at managing all the different websites, and only using github to publish the code and the apps, so trying to have a consolidated channel (Discord) to communicate.
i saw this few days ago and wanted to comment on it and now @cocktailpeanut did it on its own. Wanted to so say exactly this:
Lastly, there's no bitcoin miner or whatever going on here. Everything is open source so you can check what is actually happening in the background in the source. For reference, here's how the repo works:
i think this can be closed.
... so you are right that I haven't been reading the issues. Will probably get answers faster on Discord. Sorry about that. Building this is a lot of work and I am not good at managing all the different websites, and only using github to publish the code and the apps, so trying to have a consolidated channel (Discord) to communicate.
Well, thanks for your answer. I read people complaining about it on discord first. But it seemed you haven't read those issues either.
I hope you'll make your software useable again.
Some kind of changelog would also be nice. Nobody understands, what you've changed.
This has been fixed, along with a couple of other issues. Also the official release links posted on the homepage have been updated to 1.3.4 as well.
More details here: https://github.com/pinokiocomputer/pinokio/releases/tag/1.3.4
Please feel free to report if the same issue persists.