The Starlink Desktop App I’ve Been Waiting For

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1. Thomas CannonSeptember 30, 2026 at 6:37 PM

   Two different anti virus programs report the download linked from the dishylink.com website contains malware. Windows Defender just says it's blocked because of an unknown source, but Sophos reports it has a "lockdown exploit". Since you are a MAC person do you know of any windows users who have reported this problem or that the download is safe? Great website! Thanks for saving me some money after your post about using 100mbs residential package instead of the Max level.

   1. Colby BaberSeptember 30, 2026 at 7:26 PM

      On Mac it's blocked from opening unless you manually override, because it is an unknown developer/source. Before I installed it myself I looked through all the social media comments on the Dishylink releases (over 100 comments) to see if anyone reported problems. Nothing so far. The source code is available since it is open source, so that makes me feel better as well. In my research I didn't find anyone reporting issues with malware or any other malicious stuff in the software. I'm not a security expert, so I'm not qualified to tell you that it's safe or not. But I personally decided it was safe for my computer. One alternative to installing it on your Windows PC would be to install it as a browser extension. It has far less access as a browser extension, and also has to pass certain checks by Firefox/Chrome/Edge to even be listed as an extension. So that makes me feel better as well about the project as a whole. Forgot to mention, another thing I did after installing was monitor my Mac network activity, and my UniFi router network activity to make sure the Dishylink app wasn't trying to communicate with external services over the network. It didn't try at all.
   2. Thomas CannonOctober 4, 2026 at 7:52 PM

      I tried the download again, after overriding the unknown source babysitting from MicroSoft, and installed it two days ago. Checking network activity this morning on my Peplink Balance One router and I see no outbound activity and nothing in the firewall and incident logs. I'll keep watching it for a few days but it appears to be fine. Time to buy the developer a cup of coffee :)