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Be careful ! A lot of games recently uploaded contains viruses

A topic by Milo857 created May 19, 2022 Views: 699 Replies: 3
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Hi everyone, a HUGE WARNING. 
Lately, I've seen some games stolen from others and uploaded on itch.io with a virus, it always looks the same. A game uploaded by a profile without description for which it's the only game, no real description of the game, no possibility to comment. When you download it, it is a zip with a single exe inside. It does install the game (games that normally doesn't required to be installed), but also a virus that can be removed using Malwarebytes or something similar (you have to delete it, not just put it in quarantine and the stop the process in task manager). This virus overload your RAM and GPU.
It looks like this in task manager (sry I'm french so don't know how it's called in english) : 


It's not overloading because this one is the real one that we all have on windows, not the fake one, when you have the fake you'll see that you have 2 process like this.

I really hope that I made myself clear, as I said I'm french and my english isn't perfect :/
(Also I wasn't sure about where to put it so modo, I'm sorry if it's in the wrong topic, don't hesitate to move it if necessary)

Moderator (1 edit)

Thanks! As explained in this recent topic, please report any such games so that our admins can investigate.

Admin (1 edit)

I’m sorry you got caught by a suspicious upload. As mentioned, please report any games you suspect immediately. We are constantly on the lookout for suspicious behavior, and user reports are part of our process to identify any games that our automated systems were not able to block. I see that your account only reported 2 games, both which were promptly suspended when a team member reviewed the page. You mentioned in your topic that “a lot” of games have viruses, are you aware of other projects?

Thanks

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Well, I said a lot but I haven't tried all games, it's just that it happened to me very often lately, I must admit I don't remember the games though, I just thought that I could report it today, from now don't worry, I'll always report them, but as I explained, it's quite easy to find them since it's very similar each time, different accounts, posting only one game, with an exe in a zip that install games that don't need any installation (like flash or rpgmaker games) and also seems to be stolen games.
This topic was made more to warn the others than really report games.

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