People who are taking care of Krita's code repository and other places are Krita Foundation, which is a non-profit organization that keeps the trademark to name "Krita" and to the logo. That's why it's super important to download the program only from trusted places. So if they can do it to Photoshop, they can do it to Krita, too. I guess you know that you could, in theory, download pirated/cracked Photoshop or SAI somewhere and since it would come from an unknown/untrusted source, there is a chance that they added malware or virus to it. But that can happen with closed-source application too. Note that if you download it from a suspicious-looking website, it won't help you, because anyone can take Krita's code and add some malware and stuff and then say "hi, look, this is Krita, download from me!" (actually it's illegal, but some people don't care). But anyone can propose changes and they end up here: - and that means that the code will be checked by more experienced and trusted developers before it can be added to the official repository. In Krita's case, the source is here: but the access to the repository is granted only to the trusted contributors (and note that every contribution is signed, so if anyone tries foul play, it would be known who was that and easy to block them). Open source means you can read and use the source for yourself, it doesn't mean you can put in the official version anything you want and no one would check it.
#DOES FIREALPACA DOWNLOAD VIRUSES WINDOWS#
TL DR: As long as you download from the official sources, it's safe: for MacOS: only the website, for Windows: Steam, Windows Store, or website, for Android: website or Play Store (beta channel), for Linux: website (appimage), repository or ppa, snap or flatpak (four last ones are not maintained by Krita itself but by the community). I know it’s open source does that mean anyone can upload something to it like a virus for me to get ?
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