{"id":6362,"date":"2021-06-03T10:35:15","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T14:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=6362"},"modified":"2021-08-03T11:01:57","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T15:01:57","slug":"windows-10s-package-manager-overwhelmed-with-malformed-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/windows-10s-package-manager-overwhelmed-with-malformed-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10\u2019s Package Manager Overwhelmed With Malformed Apps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last weekend, many users flooded Winget&#8217;s software registration with requests for apps that are either buggy or duplicated, raising questions about the integrity of the Winget ecosystem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Microsoft recently released the first stable version of its Windows 10 package manager Winget, which allows users to manage apps from the command line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Winget enables Windows users to automate app management when installing, configuring, updating and uninstalling applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The introduction of the first stable version of Winget was a milestone for Microsoft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the multiple pull requests included already existing app names and incorrect application names.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In some cases, pull requests would override the manifestos of existing applications, coupled with incomplete information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some developers suggest that a newer version of Winget should require manual verification.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/windows-10s-package-manager-flooded-with-duplicate-malformed-apps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Bleeping Computer.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Users flooded Winget&#8217;s software registration with requests for apps that are malformed or duplicated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[62,224],"class_list":["post-6362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companies","tag-microsoft","tag-windows"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6362"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6367,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6362\/revisions\/6367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}