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?
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.
Just do a scan of your machine if you downloaded pirated games from non reputable sources. Get a few uploaders you know the community trusts and where they post links to their releases
For the love of God stop giving bad advice. Anti virus software cannot protect you from all viruses. Viruses are trained against anti virus software nowadays so only behavioral detection may help.
Trusted community and uploaders is the only way this works.
Alright, just format your machine if you downloaded pirated games from non reputable sources. Get a few uploaders you know the community trusts and where they post links to their releases
The short answer is no. Why would you even ask that? Piracy is never safe, and you take responsibility for downloading stuff based on nothing more than the word of strangers you'll never meet that it's not infected with something that's going to steal your banking information.
Things like this fiasco only reinforce the rule of never trusting people online.
At any point they may end up screwing you over, no matter the position they are in.
1337 should be used with extreme caution. The fact that admins are removing negative comments even makes that a useless method of gauging file safety.
But of course, any tracker can have malware in their software bundles, and you should treat all with caution, especially public-facing ones. But I personally will be avoiding 1337 from hereon, for sure.
Was VitaminX splitting the profits with a rogue admin?
Uh, a conspiracy theory in the baking.
Why was the post on this removed from the Reddit Piracy sub? I find that slightly alarming.
/r/piracy has become /r/piracymemes. The first actually useful thread since the new mods took over and they close it. It's pretty clear what they are doing with the sub.
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...
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 🤝
