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Can open source software contain adware, spyware or viruses?

April 26, 2017adware contain open source Software spyware viruses

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Can open source software contain adware, spyware or viruses?

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Open source projects are consistently free of adware, spyware and viruses. This is because the source code is available to everyone; if a developer were to add rogue code to a project it would be immediately visible to others in the community.