# Hypatia Malicious Link Detected?

**URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/hypatia-malicious-link-detected/23978
**Category:** Questions
**Created:** 2025-01-14T07:59:09Z
**Posts:** 4

## Post 1 by @Breeze7846 — 2025-01-14T07:59:09Z

I was using RedReader, and all of a sudden Hypatia gives me a notification saying “Malicious link detected: thecounter[.]org”

I wasnt even in a web browser. What does this even mean? To my knowledge I was not on this domain. I dont even know what it is. Is my device compromised? What does it mean by malicious link?

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## Post 2 by @Niek-de-Wilde — 2025-01-14T08:22:54Z

> [@Breeze7846](#):
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> r, and all of a sudden Hypatia gives me a notification saying “Malicious link detected: thecounter[.]org”

You should uninstall Hypatia, as it is no longer maintained, see: [https://divestos.org/pages/news#end](https://divestos.org/pages/news#end)

As for your question, Hypathia probably just noticed your device tried to access a link on its blacklist and notified you. Maybe someone on reddit posted a link to it? I wouldn’t give it too much thought honestly.

P.s. if you are concerned, then it would just reboot the phone to let the verified boot functionality do its thing, a lot of variants android malware does not persist across reboots.

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## Post 3 by @Breeze7846 — 2025-01-14T15:53:19Z

Thanks, i will do that.

Are there any additional scanners i can use in GrapheneOS that can give me a second opinion?

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## Post 4 by @silverfinger — 2025-01-14T16:12:30Z

You can ask the GrapheneOS forums, but my guess is that they consider any antimalware service to be  
1- unnecessary for their operating system  
2- a form of badness enumeration, which they consider to be not real security. They would probably link you something from the PrivSec website or something that Tommy Tran said. [Badness Enumeration | PrivSec - A practical approach to Privacy and Security](https://privsec.dev/posts/knowledge/badness-enumeration/)