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Anyone who downloaded the GOG Baldur's Gate 3 release from 1337x, scan with Malwarebytes asap! (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by GeekFTW@kbin.social to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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 84 points 1 year ago

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

[-] realherald@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

No downloading much anyways, but if I were to start, how would I go about scanning the files properly? Could you recommend something to read up on the topic?