• nowayhosay@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    For anyone who’s wondering, I saw within the first few hours there were comments mentioning the weird installer and malware fuckery. The account was VitaminX which I think has since been deleted EDIT THE ACCOUNT HAS NOT BEEN DELETED. Screenshots xposted from a different forum VitaminX user card

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  • djmarcone@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    To me this shows just how rare malware is on pirated software… Someone did it and it causes quite an uproar.

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    1 year ago

    I mean, being an unhinged transphobe with an ego the size of a house does not mean anything regarding your insight on piracy or tracker politics.

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    1 year ago

    Just when I was considering them for rarbg replacement. Any reliable alternatives?

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    1 year ago

    bit of a stretch to say it’s unsafe.

    I guess I need to point out the tweet that OP posted was on about 1337 which is what I was on about not the BG3 download. the perfectly safe content far outweighs any bad content ( I have yet to see someone hide a miner in a movie for example)

    • 7Sea_Sailor@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      it really isnt a stretch. as soon as the moderation team of the website doesnt care about, or even protects, the first malware infected torrent - none of the torrents can be trusted anymore.

      i for one will not will not get torrents from 1337x anymore, unless I’ve been sent to a specific one from a trusted external source (like game repackers, who do host their torrents on 1337x from time to time). the risk is simply too high, and there are better sources for games and movies anyways,

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      1 year ago

      So it creating an exe and hiding it from the task manager is fairly normal then? From the screenshots another bloke pasted on here, that looks pretty suspicious