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Anyone who downloaded the GOG Baldur's Gate 3 release from 1337x, scan with Malwarebytes asap! (kbin.social)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Originally posted over on /r/piracy (https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/15itrip/1337x_admins_allowing_bg3_torrent_with_bitcoin/)

It looks like a bitcoin miner was included in the installer, and the admins on 1337x may or may not give a shit apparently. Scanned my pc and my wifes and found the same stuff the others mentioned.

According to the other comments, don't feel the need to uninstall as the miner was installed separate to the game, just give a Malwarebytes scan to get rid of the junk.

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[–] 83 points 3 years ago (4 children)

If you aren't scanning every software you download, whether a pirate torrent or normal direct download, that's kinda your own fault

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  • [–] 73 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    To be fair, I cannot remember a software where no anti virus program turned red. Those cracks always look suspicous to the heuristics.

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  • [–] 24 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Of course but it's usually pretty easy to filter out the false positives that always appear as a Trojan (because of the file modification payload) vs a crypto miner

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  • [–] [S] 18 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Oh 100%. Was a dumb moment where I didn't expect it and didn't bother, and neither did a lot of other people from the looks of it. Good thing is it was something fixable in less than 5 mins and not a bigger problem.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I would completely reformat all affected machines. AVs are not perfect. Yes it sucks, but imagine the consequences of doing any form of banking on an infected machine.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    No downloading much anyways, but if I were to start, how would I go about scanning the files properly? Could you recommend something to read up on the topic?

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