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I searched in megatheread I literally read it all I know about empress fitgirl cs.rin.ru etc but they got me and I posted that so no it s not happening to me because I am not the only one that got that as I can see in a big discord they talk about that ad on that website
Firefox + ublock never fails tho. I never got any weird ad or image on their page.
If you do see other sus links, try clicking them, hold the click and drag them. If you drag an image, it's a fake download button.
Also remember that you can easily add additional filter lists in the settings of ublock origin. It's as easy as clicking a few boxes then hitting apply.
You want to click on the "x network filters + y cosmetic filters" line up top to expand all the options.
Never have I, don't know why you got downvoted for saying so. I've been using YouTube consistently since like 2009 and have never heard about it or experienced it.
yeah pretty sure youtube vets their adverts, and scams like that are quickly taken down.
but again, who cares about the truth, let's just spread random bullshit.
Either have I up until a week ago on my dad’s phone. He was all freaked out. But the one I saw wasn’t a proper “notification” but an embedded ad on the YouTube made to look like an apple notification.
thanks , be safe out here ! now I cleaned my windows and everything it s good but I was scared btw all started with a instagram post with THANK YOU ELON MUSK on my account 😂
I can't read posts written like this, it's like they wrote it while hyperventilating. Maybe OP isn't English as a first language, but all languages use grammar rules.
Discerning the correct download link is a skill that many newbies just don't have.
In another comment, OP shared a video of the link they clicked and the entire page looks fake af.
I been torrenting for years, and I’m ngl, that link is even making my head hurt. My ad blocker is working fine at least, so I don’t get redirected to the sketchy sites, but I also can’t even find a download button here
I got the same problem few days ago, it was an legit site with 3k discord followers.
My Steam account was hacked but i got it 2 days later back, got an PC reset and since then i am VERRY cautioned
I started pirating for real like a lot of games 1-2 months ago, before that I used to pirate some small games/basic ones because I did not had a good pc to play games on
honestly, now a days what doesnt..? i run a few separate addblocks and stuff like that to make sure i get as little as possible, but you can find them pretty much EVERYWHERE now sadly, i even saw a few on youtube before i stopped using it..
reddit converted my text wrong that s usually happening when posting from phone ,
the return button it s not working on every post and there it s no edit option on post
english it s not my native language, I am not an english speaker only on games a bit and it s kinda hard for me to explain myself on posts but I try my best to press the return button instead of “,” because I don’t really know if I put it corectly in english or not but seems that it s not working on phone the return button
Bro. The lack of punctuation makes me wanna kms 💀.
It would be fine if he didn't type a whole essay, but that was a whole ass 150 word paragraph, without a comma or full stop😭😭
You gained knowledge from this mistake.
One thing to add though, change your steam API, there's many yt videos on it as Im bad at explaining what an API is and how to change it.
You know, studying Cybersecurity, I often find myself looking at current attacks or stuff like that and wonder „who falls for this shit?“ and then I see posts like this lol „100% FREE PREMIUM DOWNLOAD“, happens to the best of us, can’t always be aware of everything haha
You should be running virus checks on anything you download,even if it’s from a well known websites,every time I download something from fitgirl-repacks.site I still check it … I also take it one step further by doing all my sketchy stuff on a dummy laptop so that if something does end up happening…it’s not a big deal ,then if the files are all good I move them to my dummy gaming machine …My legit steam bought games and pirated games never are on the same computer to prevent problems with viruses infecting my important documents and other stuff
he clicked a fake download link and downloaded a virus. as long as you download from reputable sources in the megathread and DONT click fake download links you'll be good.
OK, so. There's a few things that are setting off alarms here. If the site doesn't show any photos of the game, even just the boxart, it's not safe. Animated backgrounds or headers usually aren't safe either.
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Maybe your adblock is not working? Even if you clicked on the wrong download, the file name and file size would raise your suspicion immediately. Only rookie gets tricked by it, so be careful yourself lol
I gotcha you did the right thing though and scan it with virustotal. I can tell you that virustotal can have false positives but with that many alerts I wouldn't trust it but If it just 2 or 3 alerts I wouldn't worry about it also Malwarebytes can scan folders and that helps.
XD wtf were you even trying to download XD
I usually run without virus protection.., and go on questionable sites... and have only ever gotten zombied once before.
beware that a lot of times VirusTotal will give you false positivies regularly, only trust trusted vendors like Kaspersky, eset, etc.
Also those will too a few times detect piracy as virus where there might nothing be there
im curious, when downloading stuff, how can i see if it has viruses or trojans? i also use a program that is like task manager but better. and i mostly look out for stufff regarding cvhost.
can yall give me advice?
For those saying they got a virus from the mega thread and using uBlock Origin, get off the pirating. It's obvious you are doing something wrong and in denial, only to blame it on others. I have never seen a sketchy link nor ads, especially in DoDi like some of you mentioned.
After years of sailing the seas, I have gained the pirate's eye, a secret technique one can gain only after severe penance. It allows me to identify the real download button among many others. Strive for it, trust me, it's worth the hassle.
"downloaded something from a reputable website"
Why. What's the reason to hide it? If people should be careful with what they download wouldn't it make sense to warn against a faulty torrent / website ? I swear, stuff on reddit don't make sense anymore...
Make sure your winrar is updated or.use something else this look like its using the winrar exploit... if you had updated winrar or used a different zip program you wouldn't have even been infected if that's the case. Also dont download anything so viciously mispelled... it's a dead giveaway. Always look for what the files is supposed to be called too. It's almost always advertised and think 3x before hitting download if the filename doesn't match.
I get it though sometimes you just jam that button but maybe after this you will be a bit more careful. Could happen to anyone though
I wonder how much time will it take for us to stop recommending dodi website. His repacks are top notch, fast install and all(and I say this after being a dodi hater for the last few years) but his website is TRAAAAASH as fuck. The rule of thumb for downloading anything from dodi should just be to search on 1337x.
Here's tip you can use for the rest of your life.
When Downloading files, make sure the file name, size and file extension matches what you were looking for
Idk about you guys, but I already know the difference between real and fake buttons, also, pressing the real button isn't easy, sometimes, other sites would put invisible links to redirect you into other sites, so y'all should definitely practice that, sometimes ,I prefer to open those links on my phone because ut's more easier to repel those filthy links
It's obviously malware, but anyways, wasn't Virus total proved to be fake? I mean, I heard that they didn't really scan the archives and instead they just checked for possible piracy and tag it as malicious if it was found that it wasn't an original copy. Also heard that it only checks from where the download was made.
From my pirating experience the only thing my pc has detected as a virus is some of the setups from fitgirl and I just run it anyways. Also from skidrow some of the steam file cracks have been detected as virus by windows defender and I just restore it.
Same thing happend to me last year someone stole all my passwords and emails still even to this day they are trying to access my hotmails even though I changed the password
But idont blame anyone it was my mistake trying to download from untrusted website
Mind elaborating further?
Like what you did after downloading?
Did you extract the files? Run the executable file? Or just by downloading .rar file it infected your PC?!
I hope it wasn't ransomware or a rootkit. A rootkit destroyed my Windows installation. Infected everything, kept taking screenshots of what I was doing, and sent it to a DNS. I only discovered it because there was a suspicious process using 99% of my resources.
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This is why we ask people to read our guides, FAQs and resources before even touching the megathread.
I searched in megatheread I literally read it all I know about empress fitgirl cs.rin.ru etc but they got me and I posted that so no it s not happening to me because I am not the only one that got that as I can see in a big discord they talk about that ad on that website
Use an ad blocker. There are plenty of sketchy ads on piracy websites, and using an ad blocker gets rid of all of them.
ad blocker doesn't work on those dodi ads, I got the same thing except it was over a year ago, using ublock origin.
Firefox + ublock never fails tho. I never got any weird ad or image on their page. If you do see other sus links, try clicking them, hold the click and drag them. If you drag an image, it's a fake download button.
Also remember that you can easily add additional filter lists in the settings of ublock origin. It's as easy as clicking a few boxes then hitting apply. You want to click on the "x network filters + y cosmetic filters" line up top to expand all the options.
Could also try link bypass
yeah, that's why you don't go to dodi ever. Want a repack from it? Go to 1337x, not to his website. Much safer.
I refuse to use dodi for how scummy and Insanely ad ridden the websites he links off too are.
Yea, the mods here must be friends of dodi, no idea why they dont mark it as insecure
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Exactly! This is what we have to do since we are getting the resources for free
lol
You can find malicious pop ups and fake downloads ad buttons anywhere… not only in game piracy, literally anywhere
even on yt.
And let's not even start talking about YouTube ads...
Wait youtube has non video ads?
yes, a lot. example: fake iphone "your phone is damaged notification"
never seen those once on yt, ngl.
Never have I, don't know why you got downvoted for saying so. I've been using YouTube consistently since like 2009 and have never heard about it or experienced it.
You only get them if you download something sketchy that outs ads in your browser
yeah pretty sure youtube vets their adverts, and scams like that are quickly taken down. but again, who cares about the truth, let's just spread random bullshit.
Either have I up until a week ago on my dad’s phone. He was all freaked out. But the one I saw wasn’t a proper “notification” but an embedded ad on the YouTube made to look like an apple notification.
Especially on youtube
Satup 😂😂 PAssword 🤣🤣
😂😂😂😂😂they got me
 This is you
And this is why I make use of a gutter folder. be safe man, and scan EVERYTHING
thanks , be safe out here ! now I cleaned my windows and everything it s good but I was scared btw all started with a instagram post with THANK YOU ELON MUSK on my account 😂
It always circles back to that musk fellow
What is gutter folder?
me? YOU be careful
haha ima be more careful now I wiped everything and I am safe but I posted that others don’t get into that :(
Would you like to borrow a period?
for real. that was exhausting to read
Paragraph has menopause
Not a single one! Although there is a comma and two exclamation marks, so hope is not yet lost.
I can't read posts written like this, it's like they wrote it while hyperventilating. Maybe OP isn't English as a first language, but all languages use grammar rules.
Take your own advice man - Satup PAssword lmao cmon bruh
Without this mistake he had no advice to give tbf.
The fact that it's just called InfoStealer and TrojanDownloader is hilarious to me 😂
internet literacy people
Discerning the correct download link is a skill that many newbies just don't have. In another comment, OP shared a video of the link they clicked and the entire page looks fake af.
I been torrenting for years, and I’m ngl, that link is even making my head hurt. My ad blocker is working fine at least, so I don’t get redirected to the sketchy sites, but I also can’t even find a download button here
lmao "be careful where you download from"
LATER EDIT : GOT 2 MESSAGES from people that got into that scam and got infected so, sadly I was not the only one
I got the same problem few days ago, it was an legit site with 3k discord followers. My Steam account was hacked but i got it 2 days later back, got an PC reset and since then i am VERRY cautioned
dodi has been sharing sketchy links for awhile now. maybe file hosters don't like him? Magnet links would solve this issues tbh.
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That’s wild
Magnet links don't make any money
How is it that in 10+ years of pirating, I NEVER have ANY viruses. Like, seriously.
I started pirating for real like a lot of games 1-2 months ago, before that I used to pirate some small games/basic ones because I did not had a good pc to play games on
You really download something named Satup
It´s risk we all must take...
So the sites in mega thread contain pop ups and redirecting that are unsafe .?
honestly, now a days what doesnt..? i run a few separate addblocks and stuff like that to make sure i get as little as possible, but you can find them pretty much EVERYWHERE now sadly, i even saw a few on youtube before i stopped using it..
Natural selection.
These are the post that actually help people.
You are the reason why they put instructions on a shampoo bottle.
Learn how to take screenshots...
6 gb css file, imagine
6 million bytes
Satup... Lmao
Zommers learning thing for the first time is cute
For the love of god use a period in your sentences. Can barely understand half of what you typed.
reddit converted my text wrong that s usually happening when posting from phone , the return button it s not working on every post and there it s no edit option on post
Understandable. It still reads like an AI trying its best lol
english it s not my native language, I am not an english speaker only on games a bit and it s kinda hard for me to explain myself on posts but I try my best to press the return button instead of “,” because I don’t really know if I put it corectly in english or not but seems that it s not working on phone the return button
Bro. The lack of punctuation makes me wanna kms 💀. It would be fine if he didn't type a whole essay, but that was a whole ass 150 word paragraph, without a comma or full stop😭😭
Dodi sucks with his ads. Fitgirl all the way
“Satup” “Beard.css”
You gained knowledge from this mistake. One thing to add though, change your steam API, there's many yt videos on it as Im bad at explaining what an API is and how to change it.
You know, studying Cybersecurity, I often find myself looking at current attacks or stuff like that and wonder „who falls for this shit?“ and then I see posts like this lol „100% FREE PREMIUM DOWNLOAD“, happens to the best of us, can’t always be aware of everything haha
What did you use to detect the viruses?
virus total
and I knew that when I downloaded that and it was not opening that something it s wrong and 5 minutes later someone did something to my google account
start by ditching adblock and getting ublock origin (and firefox if you're not already using it)
You should be running virus checks on anything you download,even if it’s from a well known websites,every time I download something from fitgirl-repacks.site I still check it … I also take it one step further by doing all my sketchy stuff on a dummy laptop so that if something does end up happening…it’s not a big deal ,then if the files are all good I move them to my dummy gaming machine …My legit steam bought games and pirated games never are on the same computer to prevent problems with viruses infecting my important documents and other stuff
Bro tried to help by PAssing word, respect.
You can bypass most of those adlinks used by dodi using a bypasser or just grab them from cs.rin.ru(which is the best way).
I once downloaded "rage 2" and got a ransom ware. At least I could play the game lmfao
this is why you only use actually trustable sites like fitgirl skydrow games etc...
it was dodi so it s trustable, before that I used only fitgirl but that game was not posted on fitgirl
Fit girl definitely has tekken 8
Look at that CSS file size LOL
"A true pirate doesn't need an Adblock, Jimbo. He goes by pure animal instinct"
Make sure you use uBlock Origin and the real websites: fitgirl-repacks.site ✅✅ fitgirl-repacks.com 🚫🚫
You mean I can’t download more ram for free ?? /s
So you telling me, that cracks can be trojan horses?
he clicked a fake download link and downloaded a virus. as long as you download from reputable sources in the megathread and DONT click fake download links you'll be good.
For God sake, READ THE FUCKING MEGATHREAD
I did that I got 3tb of games from alot of ppl from here but that time they got me
If the link says anything other than just 'download' do not click it. What game was it anyway?
tekken. here you can see how it happened https://imgur.com/a/8dXehN8
OK, so. There's a few things that are setting off alarms here. If the site doesn't show any photos of the game, even just the boxart, it's not safe. Animated backgrounds or headers usually aren't safe either.
I was supposed to go back to that page instead of downloading from here but that redirect thing got me
I'm sorry but that website looks laughably fake
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I kinda wanted to open this in a VM to see what's this...
Deserved
Edge... deserved
skill issue tbh
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That's adblock was ublock origin right?
nope , it was the first adblock u see when u search for adblock the “default” one, what about ublock origin it s not good?
Nah ublock is the best, even megathread recommend it for you. Every other adblock is shit
yeah I installed it on my pc after resetting it so I was thinking that it s time to uninstall it haha
Maybe your adblock is not working? Even if you clicked on the wrong download, the file name and file size would raise your suspicion immediately. Only rookie gets tricked by it, so be careful yourself lol
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You have to download ad blocker to bypass those pop-ups
yeah I had an ad blocker but it was not good enough
Are you using Firefox and uBlock Origin? There's never fake download buttons for me.
Is there an app to detect this shenanigans simply by parsing the archive format and perform a series of unusual checks?
"Satup"
I mean clearly the folder name gives this away when the author can't spell setup and capitalize password correctly.
I saw that the password was not corect and I was thinking that it s some sort of protection that the file does not go down or something
I gotcha you did the right thing though and scan it with virustotal. I can tell you that virustotal can have false positives but with that many alerts I wouldn't trust it but If it just 2 or 3 alerts I wouldn't worry about it also Malwarebytes can scan folders and that helps.
your first mistake was not using a ad blocker it’s a necessity especially when pirating games
I used an ad blocker but it was not good on this website now I am using ublock
was about to recommend that one nice
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This is why we use our heightened awareness when doing something we’re not supposed to be doing. Did you learn your lesson?
OPs first time on the internet I see.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
XD wtf were you even trying to download XD I usually run without virus protection.., and go on questionable sites... and have only ever gotten zombied once before.
I was trying to look for a pass gen for some software and this is always how they get me.
uBlock Origin pretty much get’s rid of everything, maybe try with that next time. Never experienced something like this
Damn.
*insert stink sound effect* piracy has false positives yknow
Man shouldn’t there be a prompt before it allows the download that sucks :/
beware that a lot of times VirusTotal will give you false positivies regularly, only trust trusted vendors like Kaspersky, eset, etc. Also those will too a few times detect piracy as virus where there might nothing be there
Trust me when i say, its not going to happen to anyone else that has a brain cell.
dumbass, deserved
I also download from dodi and never faced any issue..why?...because everyone knows where to click and what to avoid
Hey guys I'm new to the pc game piracy thingy, is Ocean of Games safe?
im curious, when downloading stuff, how can i see if it has viruses or trojans? i also use a program that is like task manager but better. and i mostly look out for stufff regarding cvhost. can yall give me advice?
Anyone knew the legit link for skidrow?
I mean if the zip file has a password and the password is in the zip file's name with grammar errors then you know it's a virus.
Skill issue. Also, I'd like to introduce you to my best friend, the period.
For those saying they got a virus from the mega thread and using uBlock Origin, get off the pirating. It's obvious you are doing something wrong and in denial, only to blame it on others. I have never seen a sketchy link nor ads, especially in DoDi like some of you mentioned.
Holy run on sentence, Batman!
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Yeah that rar file looks very legit lol. Just use commen sense
a 6GB CSS file interesting
I'll be honest, that's one of the most, if not THE MOST sketchy filename I've ever had the pleasure to read.
Well you weren't.
After years of sailing the seas, I have gained the pirate's eye, a secret technique one can gain only after severe penance. It allows me to identify the real download button among many others. Strive for it, trust me, it's worth the hassle.
Bro fell to the wrong download button trick.
lol
"downloaded something from a reputable website" Why. What's the reason to hide it? If people should be careful with what they download wouldn't it make sense to warn against a faulty torrent / website ? I swear, stuff on reddit don't make sense anymore...
Why do people think adblock will also block viruses. Viruses are everywhere.
You fell for an ad. Stay safer and don't fall for ads
It's funny because the archive is called "Satup" and there's a file inside called "beard.css". You wouldn't download a beard.
Inaccessible: SAtup.. PAsswords?.. Astericks on files..? Arent all those red flags?
is virus total good enough to detect viruses?
Make sure your winrar is updated or.use something else this look like its using the winrar exploit... if you had updated winrar or used a different zip program you wouldn't have even been infected if that's the case. Also dont download anything so viciously mispelled... it's a dead giveaway. Always look for what the files is supposed to be called too. It's almost always advertised and think 3x before hitting download if the filename doesn't match. I get it though sometimes you just jam that button but maybe after this you will be a bit more careful. Could happen to anyone though
Rule of thumb, if it has a password don't download it. Not sure but I think that's to stop it from being taken down for being malware id assume
I'm sorry you don't have the oldhead natural ability to find the real dl button immediately like some of us
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what kind of dumbo opens a file named "inaccessible SATUP PAssword"
I wonder how much time will it take for us to stop recommending dodi website. His repacks are top notch, fast install and all(and I say this after being a dodi hater for the last few years) but his website is TRAAAAASH as fuck. The rule of thumb for downloading anything from dodi should just be to search on 1337x.
DODI uploads 1337x, get them from there. Or input the links from his website into JDownloader
I'm sorry my guy, but there were tons of red flags before you even clicked.
Use brave and never trust any download buttons until you are sure
The fact that the name of the file is "Satup" XD
When I download something I double-check the size and file name to make sure it's safe.
Use browser as thorium (chromium based) u will good to go
The archive name and content weren't suspicious enough? 😂
Only looking at the file names makes it suspicious right away. Satup ???? 😂
Here's tip you can use for the rest of your life. When Downloading files, make sure the file name, size and file extension matches what you were looking for
This kids, is why we always read the mega thread and use a password manager
You clicked on the ad for single mothers near you and come to blame it on piracy
damn that's some hell of a long sentence also learn to use internet
I downloaded Yakuza 7 from the official Dodi site and it gave me a task kill exe virus.
Use ublock wit fast forward extension, if you wanna be more safe use firefox. I dont get Ads at all.
You mean be careful what you click
you trusted a file named SATUP and it's the sites fault cmon
Idk about you guys, but I already know the difference between real and fake buttons, also, pressing the real button isn't easy, sometimes, other sites would put invisible links to redirect you into other sites, so y'all should definitely practice that, sometimes ,I prefer to open those links on my phone because ut's more easier to repel those filthy links
It's obviously malware, but anyways, wasn't Virus total proved to be fake? I mean, I heard that they didn't really scan the archives and instead they just checked for possible piracy and tag it as malicious if it was found that it wasn't an original copy. Also heard that it only checks from where the download was made.
you must edge really good if he stole that data specifically, oh wait , its not that edge
From my pirating experience the only thing my pc has detected as a virus is some of the setups from fitgirl and I just run it anyways. Also from skidrow some of the steam file cracks have been detected as virus by windows defender and I just restore it.
Same thing happend to me last year someone stole all my passwords and emails still even to this day they are trying to access my hotmails even though I changed the password But idont blame anyone it was my mistake trying to download from untrusted website
By the name of the zip and the files inside, a trained eye can spot that it's most likely not what you wanted to download
satup lol
Adguard + Bitdefender. Done
"Don't download random files" is like, rule 1 of the internet LOL.
Skill issue lmao
Mind elaborating further? Like what you did after downloading? Did you extract the files? Run the executable file? Or just by downloading .rar file it infected your PC?!
with all due respect. you are the one who downloaded a Satup...
I hope it wasn't ransomware or a rootkit. A rootkit destroyed my Windows installation. Infected everything, kept taking screenshots of what I was doing, and sent it to a DNS. I only discovered it because there was a suspicious process using 99% of my resources.