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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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[–] empireOfLove@lemmy.one 66 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If you aren't scanning every software you download, whether a pirate torrent or normal direct download, that's kinda your own fault

[–] teft@startrek.website 63 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Motherfuckers out here rawdogging the internet like it's 1998.

[–] crow 17 points 1 year ago

It just feels better… I can’t feel the bits otherwise.

[–] kniescherz@feddit.de 54 points 1 year ago (3 children)

To be fair, I cannot remember a software where no anti virus program turned red. Those cracks always look suspicous to the heuristics.

[–] empireOfLove@lemmy.one 14 points 1 year ago

Of course but it's usually pretty easy to filter out the false positives that always appear as a Trojan (because of the file modification payload) vs a crypto miner

[–] Pulp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

They usually say something generic like HackTool.

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Agreed, but if it's a GOG release it doesn't need a crack because it never had DRM in the first place.

[–] GeekFTW@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

Oh 100%. Was a dumb moment where I didn't expect it and didn't bother, and neither did a lot of other people from the looks of it. Good thing is it was something fixable in less than 5 mins and not a bigger problem.