- Aug 5, 2016
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Becareful someone is spreading viruses with the game packages. I just found that yesterday some virus called mayweather which uses TOR installed in my system. It came to my system yesterday.
Fake alertsmayweather
I use Malwarebyte. I don't think every game spreads viruses, I think certain people in here may secretly embed viruses among their releases. I notice that not all games are coming from F95, some random users upload them too. I am sure it came from one of the games I downloaded here, because I didn't download anything recently from other places.Yikes, sorry about the virus.
How sure are you it's from one of these games, and if so, could you narrow down the culprit? Just did a scan and didn't find any on my system.
It's not a false alert, I found this in the "startup" tab in the task manager. It shows something called mayweather which automatically opens when the system starts, it has this TOR files in a sub folder. I found that they installed there in yesterday. I think it's better someone checks the releases if they are coming from untrusted people, once they are trusted enough let them upload without going through the verification process.Fake alerts
Which Antivirus are you using?
You can use a virtual machine too, like Virtual Box. It's always good to test files from untrusted sources.I would highly advice using a program calledYou must be registered to see the linkswhen dealing with executables that shouldn't be trusted. It creates an extra layer of protection against malicious software by containing their hard drive write access into an isolated sandbox environment. This environment looks like the real deal for the executable, so most software should work fine with it unless they are doing some very low level things. Even installable programs should work just fine. Pretty much only thing that hasn't worked well for me has been Oculus Rift games, and I would assume installing drivers would be a bad idea. Oh, and Sandboxie is free for personal use, so there really isn't any reason to not use it.
It's not still safe, It can read our data , though it can't execute any commands to write to the hard drive.I would highly advice using a program calledYou must be registered to see the linkswhen dealing with executables that shouldn't be trusted. It creates an extra layer of protection against malicious software by containing their hard drive write access into an isolated sandbox environment. This environment looks like the real deal for the executable, so most software should work fine with it unless they are doing some very low level things. Even installable programs should work just fine. Pretty much only thing that hasn't worked well for me has been Oculus Rift games, and I would assume installing drivers would be a bad idea. Oh, and Sandboxie is free for personal use, so there really isn't any reason to not use it.
Yeah, it's pretty much just an extra layer of protection. You still shouldn't run anything that you know to be malicious for sure.It's not still safe, It can read our data , though it can't execute any commands to write to the hard drive.
The irony. Sandboxie is spyware itself. Use Virtualbox or VMware. Both are free.I would highly advice using a program calledYou must be registered to see the linkswhen dealing with executables that shouldn't be trusted. It creates an extra layer of protection against malicious software by containing their hard drive write access into an isolated sandbox environment. This environment looks like the real deal for the executable, so most software should work fine with it unless they are doing some very low level things. Even installable programs should work just fine. Pretty much only thing that hasn't worked well for me has been Oculus Rift games, and I would assume installing drivers would be a bad idea. Oh, and Sandboxie is free for personal use, so there really isn't any reason to not use it.
I HIGHLY doubt it's due to the files.Just found this site, and every file I downloaded and scanned was infected...