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The extension that was impersonating vscode solidity (and many others following the same pattern) have been removed. We have seen that a fake extension or virus can spam many downloads (if that was their technique) So how to identify is the right extension? The best way is to look at the published date. The vscode solidity extension was published on the 2015-11-19 at 7:35 am, the published date cannot be faked. The extension was one of the first ones in the marketplace, after the official announcement of the extension sdk the day before. So in case of doubt, when choosing any extension.. check the date.

How does this work on the VS code marketplace exactly? Zed's solution is to just use GitHub repos. The index of available extensions are just symlinks to the actual extension repo so you what you see is what you get. 

https://github.com/zed-industries/extensions

DX Engineer | Head of Developer Relations at /pinata | Building orbiter.host | stevedylan.dev/links | opinions are my own

Microsoft manages vscode marketplace, so they provide the security.

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