Originally posted over on /r/piracy (https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/15itrip/1337x_admins_allowing_bg3_torrent_with_bitcoin/)
It looks like a bitcoin miner was included in the installer, and the admins on 1337x may or may not give a shit apparently. Scanned my pc and my wifes and found the same stuff the others mentioned.
According to the other comments, don’t feel the need to uninstall as the miner was installed separate to the game, just give a Malwarebytes scan to get rid of the junk.
For gog games you can check the digital signature on the installer to make sure it’s legit. It should be signed by GOG.
Just popping in to say that if you enjoy the game and if you are financially able to, buy the game properly to support the developers, especially Larian Studios.
If a dev studio should be financially incentivized to keep doing what they’re doing, it’s this one
If you aren’t scanning every software you download, whether a pirate torrent or normal direct download, that’s kinda your own fault
Motherfuckers out here rawdogging the internet like it’s 1998.
It just feels better… I can’t feel the bits otherwise.
To be fair, I cannot remember a software where no anti virus program turned red. Those cracks always look suspicous to the heuristics.
Of course but it’s usually pretty easy to filter out the false positives that always appear as a Trojan (because of the file modification payload) vs a crypto miner
Agreed, but if it’s a GOG release it doesn’t need a crack because it never had DRM in the first place.
Oh 100%. Was a dumb moment where I didn’t expect it and didn’t bother, and neither did a lot of other people from the looks of it. Good thing is it was something fixable in less than 5 mins and not a bigger problem.
It’s even worse apparently. Apparently someone looked at where the coins are going, and the coins are going to the 1337x admins, and the uploader is just getting a cut of those coins. Which explains why the admins are unlikely to really care because they’re profiting off their users.
I have severe trust issues with any kind of pirated software so I basically never download it as a result, and shit like this is why. Even private trackers and “trusted” groups aren’t enough for me to download most software.
Do you have any evidence of that?
How did they figure that out?
Crytpo isn’t inherently anonymous. you can easily follow coins.
You can follow the wallet address , but unles you know who the address belongs to, you can’t follow it. So we ask again, where the proof that the coins went to site admins?
I reported it on 1337x earlier today, but they aren’t very responsive. Fitgirl has it listed as an upcoming repack, so hopefully not long to wait for a clean copy.
Dont be mad at me but I bought the game from GOG :)
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Yeah the thing is it installs programs that then give themselves access. You can block install.exe all you like, they’re way more advanced than that.
You shouldn’t trust anything uploaded there by IGGGames. They’ve been caught before adding miners to their files. I downloaded the rune release somewhere else seeing as they were the uploader on 1337x. I only really use 1337x for fitgirl repacks.
Why not from fitgirl page directly?
I mean I do grab the torrent link from the fitgirl site, but I find the torrent faster to download than the direct download links.
LOL idiots BG3 is DRM Free just get the GOG installer, surely people mirror that shit, I’ve seent it before.
There’s a whole ass site for exactly that in the megathread.
Has anyone seen anything on the DODI release or is it clean?
The DODI repack is based on the RUNE release which I believe is clean. Another commenter claims a found Trojan but there are others who found nothing, and imo it’s probably just the usual crack shenanigans.
Edit: See replies! It seems there are tainted versions of the repack out there, but there are clean ones too. Remember to keep a critical eye on your sites and uploaders in addition to your release groups. There’s a useful link in a reply to me below showing what you might see if you’ve downloaded a bad one.
There’s no need for a crack on this game, it’s available on GOG which is always DRM free.
I downloaded the RUNE release from TorrentLeech and Windows Defender found a trojan so yeah I’ll believe it. I guess I’ll wait for a FitGirls repack.
Empress was right
