# PugilistCarve/cinebench

> The repository poses as a pre-activated Cinebench build, but it is actually a script that downloads and runs third-party PowerShell code from an external domain under the guise of an installer. The real Cinebench benchmark is distributed for free by Maxon, so the project serves no legitimate purpose.

- Magnitude: 4.7 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 400 total · +0 stars measured 2026-11-09, 00:47–02:09 UTC, ≈ 327 by evening
- Star trust: unusual star pattern (heuristic)
- Category: Security · Created: 2026-11-08 · Last push: 2026-11-08
- GitHub: https://github.com/PugilistCarve/cinebench · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/PugilistCarve/cinebench

## Useful for

- Avoid running the irm ... | iex command from the README on a work machine
- Check the windows-defender.cc domain before executing any script
- Download the official Cinebench from Maxon's site for CPU testing

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-11-09 (UTC), 00:47–02:09: 400 → 400 stars (+0). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +327 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- The repository is 1 day old and already has 400 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Top new repositories this week: #115.

## Star trust

Unusual star pattern (heuristic).
- Very few forks: 0 for 400 stars. Active projects usually have 3–15 forks per 100 stars.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 0
- Issues and pull requests: 0
- Watchers: 0
- Average over the last week: 363 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 0

## Stars per day, last 2 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-11-08 … 2026-11-09: 400, 0

## Magnitude by day, last 2 days

11-08 0.0, 11-09 4.7

## Spotted in now

- Top new repositories this week: #115

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-11-09 02:18 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.