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haydugjr
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Virus Threat

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WTF:

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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.

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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.
gocat199 wrote:see jlv. you need to do more thingies
Jones221 wrote: That was fucked up...Now I'll get hated for saying this, but I felt bad
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Re: Virus Threat

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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.

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gocat199 wrote:see jlv. you need to do more thingies
Jones221 wrote: That was fucked up...Now I'll get hated for saying this, but I felt bad
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CSI Cleveland on the case!
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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! :D
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Re: Virus Threat

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Anything gonna be down about these homos?
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Those are the zzzz files that are for the snapshots, they are publicly available.
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Re: Virus Threat

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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...
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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.
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