A user named VitaminX uploaded bitcoin miner attached to an installed for BG3. The admins removed the upload after community protests went viral, but VitaminX is for some reason not banned.
Is the site compromised? Was VitaminX splitting the profits with a rogue admin?
1337 should be used with extreme caution. The fact that admins are removing negative comments even makes that a useless method of gauging file safety.
But of course, any tracker can have malware in their software bundles, and you should treat all with caution, especially public-facing ones. But I personally will be avoiding 1337 from hereon, for sure.
IMO, resources like the Megathread create a false sense of security here. People read something on there and think downloading anything from sites on the megathread is absolutely safe. Just like any admin of a torrent site can´t catch anything bad before it can cause any damage, the authors of the megathred also can´t be 100% aware of each and every upload on every one of the sites featured there.
Just use your brains guys. We´re talking about piracy here after all!
Just do a scan of your machine if you downloaded pirated games from non reputable sources. Get a few uploaders you know the community trusts and where they post links to their releases
For the love of God stop giving bad advice. Anti virus software cannot protect you from all viruses. Viruses are trained against anti virus software nowadays so only behavioral detection may help.
Trusted community and uploaders is the only way this works.
Things like this fiasco only reinforce the rule of never trusting people online.
At any point they may end up screwing you over, no matter the position they are in.
Was VitaminX splitting the profits with a rogue admin?
Uh, a conspiracy theory in the baking.
In the baking? This literally came up the second this situation arose. People jumped from “This upload has a miner” via “People got banned for reporting it” to “The proceeds from the miner go directly to the admins” within one single post. And all most people had to say was “Well, where do I go now?”.
