About PolinRider Scanner and Cleaner
PolinRider Scanner and Cleaner is a free, open source program that checks a computer, a GitHub account or an organization for the PolinRider malware and cleans up what it finds. It is built and maintained by Mandeep Singh, who wrote it after cleaning up a real PolinRider incident.
Who builds it
Mandeep Singh, based in Delhi, India. His GitHub profiledescribes him as a fractional CTO and AI architect with more than 16 years of experience. This is an independent open source project by one person, not a commercial product (Disclaimer).
How the project is checked
- The code is open under the MIT licence, at github.com/meSingh/polinrider-scanner.
- Every release is built by the project's CI, carries a build attestation and a
SHA256SUMSfile, and every commit is signed (Verifying this repository). - Every indicator the scanner matches names the public source it came from (the indicator set), and the set is checked against published sources every week (indicator reviews).
- The program changes nothing until you type
yes(Quick start).
This site
No cookies and no trackers. Page visits are counted anonymously by Cloudflare Web Analytics.Every page shows when it last changed, and links to its source on GitHub so a correction can be proposed.
Using this content
Everything here is public. People, search engines, AI assistants and agents may read, quote and cite it; please link to the page you quote. For language models there is a summary atllms.txt and the full text at llms-full.txt. For scripts and agents, polinrider.json gives the latest release, its downloads and checksums, what each verdict and exit code means and the indicator files, built with the site. The Updates feed carries every update and review in full.
Contact
For a missed detection or a false alarm, open an issue on GitHub. For a vulnerability in the tool, report it privately (Reporting a vulnerability).
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