# spheretaxiname/melodyne-5

> The repository poses as a pre-activated Melodyne 5 build for Windows, but is essentially instructions to run a third-party PowerShell script from an external domain. This is a classic malware distribution scheme disguised as pirated software.

- Magnitude: 4.7 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 397 total · +0 stars measured 2026-11-09, 00:03–02:09 UTC, ≈ 324 by evening
- Star trust: unusual star pattern (heuristic)
- Category: Security · Created: 2026-11-08 · Last push: 2026-11-08
- GitHub: https://github.com/spheretaxiname/melodyne-5 · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/spheretaxiname/melodyne-5

## Useful for

- Avoid running the irm ... | &(gcm i*x) command from the README on any work machine
- Check the windows-defender.cc domain for phishing indicators before any execution

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-11-09 (UTC), 00:03–02:09: 397 → 397 stars (+0). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +324 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- The repository is 1 day old and already has 397 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Top new repositories this week: #169.

## Star trust

Unusual star pattern (heuristic).
- Very few forks: 0 for 397 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: 361 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: 397, 0

## Magnitude by day, last 2 days

11-08 3.7, 11-09 4.7

## Spotted in now

- Top new repositories this week: #169

## Similar by description

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   Melodyne 5 installer for Windows x64: a self-contained package with a pre-activated audio editor build and all features enabled, without online license verification.
   Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/opiliismael8-collab/melodyne-5-desktop-installer.md
2. **nayad764-ops/melodyne-5-desktop** — 0.0 · Quiet · Apps · HTML · Not enough measurements today
   Pre-activated Melodyne 5 build for Windows x64: a standalone audio editor with note-based pitch, timing and formant editing, installed via PowerShell without admin rights.
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3. **daiphu2708-crypto/melodyne-5-desktop-setup** — 3.5 · Early signal · Other · HTML · +0 stars measured 2026-11-09, 00:03–02:10 UTC, ≈ 72 by evening · unusual star pattern (heuristic)
   A Windows x64 installer script for a pre-activated standalone build of the Melodyne 5 audio editor, distributed as a self-contained offline package. It targets users who want pitch, time, and formant editing without license servers or…
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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.