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Re: User report on git 2.55.0

From
Ramkumar Ramachandra <r@artagnon.com>
Date
Sep 4, 2026, 23:10 UTC
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Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
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> brian m. carlson wrote:
>> Do you maybe have some sort of security software running on your Mac?
>
> I think it's clean, but it's still a possibility that the workplace 
> installed something recently: I don't see any other strange symptoms 
> with any other software though, and everything seems to working 
> reliably? Perhaps the most common task: I run llvm tests over 30 times 
> a day on different changes, and it never reports any spurious failures? 
> I will nevertheless ask the IT team at my workplace if something that I 
> can't see was installed. I don't use my personal laptop for llvm work, 
> so doing that comparison is not possible.
I found the malware: it's Crowdstrike Falcon x(
Case closed.

Warm regards, Ram

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