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Be careful what you download!

A topic by Asterix45 created Apr 23, 2021 Views: 540 Replies: 4
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Just want to warn people about some games that might potentially contain malware/trojan.

I recently downloaded a game from this developer: https://chillas-art.itch.io/

If you have downloaded a game from them, best to make sure you don't have the virus as well.

But anyways, the game downloaded was 'Blame Him'. I check the reviews, gameplay, person even has steam page, so it seems legit. I go on scanned for virus, nothing, and run it.

Apparently, it was infected with some cryptojacker. It will unload file into temp then create some files into windows/microsoft .net and system32. The file then start hogging your CPU. Everyone else that ran the game seems oblivious to what's really what happened. So beware!

Not going  assume, but possibly the creator used some third-party addons for Unity. And yes, I confirmed the virus came from their game.

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Whenever you run into a problem like that, please report the game in question so our admins can double-check. Just keep in mind that antivirus software tends to give a lot of false positives nowadays, so it's best not to accuse people too quickly. Thanks.

Did you reproduce this in a virtual machine?

No, but I reproduced it on my computer (bad idea though). Probably not going to try it again. But it's the same virus as  another Unity game on steam: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1049220/discussions/0/2801756152800557606/ and more detail about the virus on this by the same person who discovered it: https://atom0s.com/posts/2020/2020-08-31-research-naxia-infected-game-on-steam/

Anyways, Malware byte and Windows defender were only able to discover it after I deleted the msfte.dll in system32.

Although you are probably right, perhaps and, no offense, you go through, like everyone (COVID-19), a period of stress, and you are a little paranoid. You can remove a Trojan, but I don't know what a crypto-hacker is. I am not a hacker at all. You can trust me. Then: is a biological or computer virus better? Patience. A trojan does no particular damage, but unfortunately, hackers place it in a hellish way. My software has never been infected. Periodically I spend 60 Euros to reset my PC and it takes 2 weeks to reconfigure it.


Paolo Fassin (PCDear.ent.games)

Paolo Fassin

Turin, Italy.