[🚨WARNING🚨] VITE IS MALWARE HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT

[zlobz]

[🚨WARNING🚨] VITE IS DANGEROUS MALWARE HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT

"Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves."
— Matthew 7:15. Bible.

Dear, friend.

I'm writing to you today not out of boredom, not for profit, and damn sure not for fun…

I’m writing because you’re in danger — and you don’t even know it yet.

You’ve probably heard of it…

“Oh, Vite is blazingly fast,” “It’s the future,” “Super quick,” blah blah blah...

HA-HA-HA

Well guess what?

VITE IS MALWARE.

Let me tell you what happened.

I was just doing what devs do late at night.
I wasn’t playing around — I was working on something real.
Not some toy code.
Not another todo list.
This was the one with potential.
The Big One.
The MVP I believed in.

And then...

I made the fatal mistake.

I opened my terminal.

And I - FOOLISHLY - typed this one, innocent-looking line:

npm create vite@latest .

Then Vite says:

• Current directory is not empty. Please choose how to proceed:
• Remove existing files and continue

Just a little prompt wrapped in friendly CLI.

So what did I do?

I trusted it.

I hit enter.

Vite recursively destroyed every single file in my project directory.

EVERYTHING gone.

It was as if I had run:

rm -rf /

Backup?
Forget it.

VITE is MALWARE made by ego-driven weirdos.

People who never imagined that you, me, or anyone might have something valuable inside that directory.

And they called it a “helpful tool.”

Vite is still out there.
Still waiting for the next victim.

So take my advice:

npm uninstall vite

WAKE UP.
BE PARANOID.
GET ANGRY.

— Someone who learned the hard way.

[webJose]

Sooo... Vite is to blame because you did not read and hit ENTER anyway? Am I understanding correctly?

[zlobz]

Sooo... "Helpful scaffolding tool" works like "rm -rf /" Am I understanding correctly?

MOST — like 99.9% of tools, even the goofy, duct-taped, half-broken ones — do something simple and sane:

They overwrite files.

And if you don’t know what “overwrite” means, it’s this:

They replace files with new files.

[webJose]

Good luck in life, buddy. I foresee some harsh times ahead of you.

[justinbeaty]

Hopefully it wasn't three months of work.

[an501920078]

Bro, it's obvious that you are very sad. I hope you can get through this difficult time. Good luck to you!