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?
I use rutracker for the most part. 1337x is blocked in my country and something feels off about the mirror. I do enjoy these types of dramas though, have to admit.
Change dns provider and it’s no longer blocked. Going by you’re username we’re from the same country :)
If it’s blocked in your country you probably don’t use a CDN without cencorship, I use Cloudflares 1.1.1.1 but Googles 8.8.8.8 should do the job too! ;)
Does that user have other popular uploads that might disappear if they were banned?
It’s entirely possible that whatever cracker they got their upload from snuck the miner in without the uploader’s knowledge. Always a lot of iffs when nobody will ever really know the truth.
Not the first time weird drama has happened in the torrent scenes and won’t be the last. Just more reinforcement to scan all your downloads and consider sandboxing them until you’ve proven them to be clean
He actually was on the 1337x comment section defending himself and at a point he said he downloaded it from [Russian website] and only repacked it. He said we could go download it from there if we didn’t trust him, but I also got a virus warning from that one…
“There was a sign down at Ramsett Park that said ‘Don’t drink the sprinkler water’, so I made sun tea with it, and now I have an infection”
It’s cool you investigated and found out they did just (accidentally?) repack a dirty copy, but it definitely reminded me of that lady from Parks and Rec.
Downloaded that torrent, thought it was weird that it triggered my AV. Usually I just assume it’s a crack file or something, and even Windows defender will say it’s a “game crack” file or something on the threat information.
However, BG3 being released on GoG I found it odd… And it wasn’t even detected as a game crack file or wtv it’s called. Ended up downloading one uploaded by InsaneRamZes which ALSO was detected by AV…
I’ve ended up downloading about 4~5 clients to finally find one that didn’t trigger it… The amount of trash that was going around is insane.
The one I finally found that doesn’t have a virus was from a private tracker. (which was the RUNE release)
Edit: Just checked on 1337x and this one that I had from InsaneRamZes has also been removed it seems. I can’t actually find a BG3 full game torrent on there atm… But I did manage to add the tracker to my private tracker’s RUNE download so I’ll be sharing with you all too 🤝
Was it ever safe?
There’s malware all over that site, you download from known good uploaders or roll the dice.
There is no such thing as a safe torrent site.
