Merge branch 'master' into patch-3

.github/dependabot.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+# Keep GitHub Actions up to date with GitHub's Dependabot...
+# https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/dependabot/working-with-dependabot/keeping-your-actions-up-to-date-with-dependabot
+# https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/dependabot/dependabot-version-updates/configuration-options-for-the-dependabot.yml-file#package-ecosystem
+version: 2
+updates:
+  - package-ecosystem: github-actions
+    directory: /
+    groups:
+      github-actions:
+        patterns:
+          - "*"  # Group all Actions updates into a single larger pull request
+    schedule:
+      interval: weekly

.github/workflows/lint_python.yml

@@ -7,9 +7,9 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3
       - uses: actions/setup-python@v4
       - run: pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel
-      - run: pip install black codespell mypy pytest ruff safety
+      - run: pip install codespell mypy pytest ruff safety
       - run: ruff check --output-format=github --ignore=E501,E701,E713,E722,F401,F403,F405,F841 --line-length=263 .
-      - run: black --check . || true
+      - run: ruff format || true
       - run: codespell --ignore-words-list="datas" --skip="./.git/*"
       - run: pip install -r requirements.txt
       - run: mypy --install-types --non-interactive . || true

README.md

@@ -231,11 +231,12 @@ To include the msvcr100.dll to improve the target os compatibility change the li
 
 # Use LOKI on Mac OS X (Or later) or Linux
 
-- Create a separate Python environment using [virtualenv](https://docs.python.org/3/library/venv.html)
-- Activate the virtual Python environment ```source .env/bin/activate```
-- Install libraries ```pip install colorama yara-python psutil rfc5424-logging-handler netaddr```
-- Run loki-upgrader.py ```python loki-upgrader.py```
-- Run loki ```python loki.py```
+
+- Initialize a Python virtual environment for loki. To do this you have to make sure you have the Python module `venv` then run `python -m venv path/to/venv` where `path/to/venv` is the path to your virtual environment. Test your virtual environment by running `path/to/venv/bin/python --version`.
+Upgrade your virtual environment modules for `pip`, `setuptools`, and `wheel` by running `path/to/venv/bin/python -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel`.
+- Install libraries ```path/to/venv/bin/python -m pip install colorama yara-python psutil rfc5424-logging-handler netaddr```
+- Run loki-upgrader.py ```path/to/venv/bin/python path/to/loki/loki-upgrader.py``` where `path/to/loki` is the path of the Loki repository.
+- Run loki ```sudo path/to/venv/bin/python loki.py```
 
 # Yara sources