This doesn't require anyone placing anything deliberately on your machine (as in, needing to exploit it somehow ahead of time). It could be as simple as checking out a branch to review, where the author of the branch has added the .exe.

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Xirdus 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I'd say checking out a malicious branch is in the same category as downloading a malicious attachment. By which I mean, it's kinda on you.

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krater23 an hour ago | parent [-]

Downloading this attachement doesn't executes it. Checking out a branch in this case executes the file in the branch. Thats a big difference.

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