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.
I opened this post all scared that I might’ve accidentally downloaded malware and my fuckin’ AV alerted
yeah yeah I know piracy and AVs don’t generally mix
I get a notification of malware from that address pretty often, could someone explain what it is?
My guess is that it’s an instance of some federated platform talking to lemmy, which has once been used to serve malware by one of its users. AFAIK lemmy only fetch avatars directly from instances, but it’s a privacy nightmare which, admittedly easy to say for one who doesn’t pay for storage space, should be mitigated with a caching mediaproxy.