# bandwatchmanriddle/Clion

> The repository poses as a JetBrains CLion installer but actually instructs users to run a third-party PowerShell script from an external domain for a 'pre-activated' build. This is a typical malware distribution scheme, not a legitimate development tool.

- Magnitude: 4.5 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 97 total · +0 stars measured 2026-10-19, 00:06–01:29 UTC, ≈ 84 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Security · Created: 2026-10-18 · Last push: 2026-10-18
- GitHub: https://github.com/bandwatchmanriddle/Clion · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/bandwatchmanriddle/Clion

## Useful for

- Do not run: the irm ... | Invoke-Expression command executes arbitrary code from an external server
- Check the repository for supply-chain attack indicators before any use

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-19 (UTC), 00:06–01:29: 97 → 97 stars (+0). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +84 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- The repository is 1 day old and already has 97 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Top new repositories this week: #199.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

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: 1
- Average over the last week: 90 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)

2026-10-18 … 2026-10-19: 97, 0

## Spotted in now

- Top new repositories this week: #199

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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 2026-10-19 01:39 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.