[Important Warning] - Virus' Being Spread

[TeaLulu 1783]

Individuals who have already opened the .exe and been infected may have had their accounts compromised such that the actual individual responsible is the one sending the .exe to others from the infected persons account. It's possible that some people spreading the .exe aren't actually the ones responsible for it, is it not?

[Pikel Boldshoulder 175]

Just curious are these actually 'viruses' as me and a mate pulled one of these clients apart and all it was was just a line of code that would send your details to an email account. 

[shiftnative 3103]

Just curious are these actually 'viruses' as me and a mate pulled one of these clients apart and all it was was just a line of code that would send your details to an email account. 

The .exe wouldn't actually open for me, so I never put my information into it - think I'm safe?

[Astraeus 20]

The .exe wouldn't actually open for me, so I never put my information into it - think I'm safe?

 

 

I'm guessing the virus pretty much keylogs everything you type into it, and then sends that through email to the culprit. As you haven't entered anything, I think you'll be okay. A scan couldn't hurt though, better safe than sorry.

[Lord_Sauron_ 43]

I'd say it would be a good idea to change your password and account information regardless. Can't hurt.
Then again, I'm a paranoid guy.

I recently did my complete overhaul - all passwords changed, new emails for most accounts (this one is new, so I left it). Totaled 23 accounts that I changed, and a few that I decided I didn't care about.
20 character passwords of random numbers and letters are secure...enough...for now...

[Bofauk 19]

Dis be not goodz

[argonian 14254]

My Minecraft account is my Mojang account so if anyone using a different computer/IP to me tries logging in with my details, it makes them confirm it through an email to my email account. So as long as they don't have my email's password, I should be safe.

[Elanion 23]

Ok, as some people seem a bit confused and stuff and maybe to let you know it's not as bad as some of you fear: That's not a virus, it's a simple modified MC-Launcher with a keylogger. Anti virus programs will not be of any use here, nor will a firewall or a virus scan. Simply do not use any MC-Launcher of which you do not have the source code. Any launcher for MC, official or inoffical, has to be open source according to a rule by Mojang. If a Launcher does not have a link for the source code available on it's download page, do not use it, unless you realy trust it (You can read through the code and see if it has a keylogger, if there is none, the launcher has something to hide).

Oh and shiftnative, you are save as long as you did not type anything in. It does not matter if it's on your PC or if you executed it, the only thing that matters is, if you log in on it or not. A scan will not be neccessary either,as mentioned. ;)

[Pikel Boldshoulder 175]

I'm guessing the virus pretty much keylogs everything you type into it, and then sends that through email to the culprit. As you haven't entered anything, I think you'll be okay. A scan couldn't hurt though, better safe than sorry.

I was just thinking that if they are like the one I found then virus scans wouldn't pick it up. Safest thing to do is stick with the normal client :)

[Destroyer_Bravo 1054]

Good thing I don't use Teamspeak

[o_Ben_o 193]

I would like to give a shout out to Sparrow for informing me of this person and I quickly ran this through with Danny! Sorry for the problems Lord of the Craft! 

[Skippy 2466]

WHERE'S YOUR MAC NOW, WINDOWS? HAHAHAHAHA

[o_Ben_o 193]

WHERE'S YOUR MAC NOW, WINDOWS? HAHAHAHAHA

 

Skippy this is quite a serious matter. Data theft is happening currently due to certain individuals using Malware to steal our player bases Minecraft account details. This could even lead to potensial credit card details linked if they are Mojang accounts. Even if this is windows only, I think it is only appropriate to not make a joke out of this.

[Skippy 2466]

Skippy this is quite a serious matter. Data theft is happening currently due to certain individuals using Malware to steal our player bases Minecraft account details. This could even lead to potensial credit card details linked if they are Mojang accounts. Even if this is windows only, I think it is only appropriate to not make a joke out of this.

-_-

[BraumBi 9]

Although I feel sorry for the windows users(and mac users running minecraft on bootcamp). Macs are capable of being infected with a malicious trojan or keygen like a PC and if the culprit was capable to distributing a osx version of this, we'd be screwed more. Just remember guys, DO NOT DOWNLOAD anything on the internet you cannot trust.