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The original was posted on /r/piracy by /u/Lilly_Wonka16 on 2024-07-25 03:44:57+00:00.
I always use this one website where I download my torrents and everything because it always works. But for some reason I thought it would be a good idea to download something from fitgirl as I’ve seen plethora of posts and personally saw someone using to download games. So I said, why not!
Here I go on the LEGIT website. I try downloading Microsoft flight simulator 2020. The website tells me idm is recommended so I said why not. After I ran the installation of idm , it then gave me an option to add the extension to my google chrome profile, I said, why not. I proceed to the website and click on the game, then I click on download, then it took to me another page to download. I download the exe and run it but for some reason my gutt was telling me not to “allow” through security windows admin permission. Repeatedly clicking don’t allow kept on popping up with “allow”. I decided to restart my computer and deleted the exe and all its zipped file.
I go back to fitgirl to download the game and this time by reading carefully, I could read fitgirl saying the current website will download the file so don’t be stupid if you get redirected and click something else. This is where I know I fuked up!! I deleted the idm and its sus extension.
Game works fine, but I ended up deleting that,too. Next day I wake up, my PayPal is hacked and have been used to make a purchase $1000+ , second, my discord got hacked, third my Facebook got hacked, and today, my linked got hacked and Reddit account was suspended for sus activity.
All of this were logged in in my browser so it’s clearly because of the extension I downloaded because it asks for permission to view your browsing data and bla bla bla and that’s how it happened.
So yeah, don’t be like me. Read and then re read again.