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Virus Threat
Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 2:38 am
by haydugjr
WTF:
I was downloading and extracting gear, when suddenly this was extracted into my personal folder: apparently some type of virus. Even if it's not a virus, there is no reason whatsoever for there to be an mx.exe in gear downloads. This is the list of gears it could possibly be in (I still have the *rars selected in 7zip). Only the ones that are selected/have dark icons. My AV is currently telling me it's failing to remove the threat. I'm going to go ahead and post this and then continue dealing with it.
Re: Virus Threat
Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 2:47 am
by haydugjr
AVG wouldn't just move/quarantine the file or whatever it normally does, it said "Advanced removal techniques are not working: Would you like to forcefully delete the file? WARNING: This may cause system instability and even crash." I decided to press the issue and hit delete, afterall I doubted mx.exe was vital to my system. I was right, AV notifications went away and all is well, I presume. Now, Can we figure out wtf is happening? Part 1 and Part 2, the only poorly named ones, are from this team's thread.
http://forum.mxsimulator.com/viewtopic. ... t1#p288601
DWAYNEMAKESEVERYTHINGSOHARD is one of the new NLR bike/gears.
I can't track down the readme.rar, however the PNG's in it are for an MCD racing skin.
Re: Virus Threat
Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 2:51 am
by haydugjr
Had an idea and went snooping, found this. Apparently the
BTO sports guys thought it'd be clever to include a full copy of the game with their skins? No wonder the shit was so huge.
Re: Virus Threat
Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 7:32 am
by Phathry25
CSI Cleveland on the case!
Re: Virus Threat
Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 9:10 am
by Jester#132
haydugjr wrote:Had an idea and went snooping, found this. Apparently the
BTO sports guys thought it'd be clever to include a full copy of the game with their skins? No wonder the shit was so huge.
Ahahaa noice!
Re: Virus Threat
Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 2:47 pm
by haydugjr
Anything gonna be down about these homos?
Re: Virus Threat
Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 6:49 pm
by Phathry25
Those are the zzzz files that are for the snapshots, they are publicly available.
Re: Virus Threat
Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 7:02 pm
by haydugjr
Phathry25 wrote:Those are the zzzz files that are for the snapshots, they are publicly available.
But they posted a virus in a skin pack...
Re: Virus Threat
Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 12:17 am
by jlv
I removed the link from
here. If it's anywhere else let me know.
That probably was a real virus. I compared it with every mx.exe I have and it didn't match any of them.