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Anyone who downloaded the GOG Baldur's Gate 3 release from 1337x, scan with Malwarebytes asap! (kbin.social)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

On the private tracker I'm at I have already seen a clean mirror uploaded

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

isnt malwarebytes kinda crap these days?

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I downloaded the RUNE release from TorrentLeech and Windows Defender found a trojan so yeah I'll believe it. I guess I'll wait for a FitGirls repack.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

From TL? Really? That's a surprise I didn't wanna hear! :/

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Sadly even with private sites a lot of things are taken from a public source and you occasionally run into this problem. Like some people up their ratios on these sites by using their VPN to get the public torrent and then seeding it back to the private one.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

As long as the first uploader didn't do it, then that won't cause other downloaders any issues. Torrents always verify the hash is correct and will discard bad data. And TorrentLeech has uploading torrents limited.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

More than likely a false positive- they often show up as Trojans due to the payload. I saw a similar issue from the rune release off of my private tracker.