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.

  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    2 years ago

    I mean

    He said it installed separately

    So blocking the network for the game or the installer wouldn’t achieve anything lol

      • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        I don’t run a whole ass DPS firewall for my home network lmao.

        Firewall won’t do anything if the mining software was made decently well and just hides every connection through outgoing HTTPS.