Hackers spreading virus/trojans via IWnet - all Modern Warfail players read

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Xelloss on 18 November 2009

Edit: appear to be a false positive at this time, thanks Mudface:

http://www.mapmodnews.com/article.php/MW2-AVIRA-Crypt.XPACK.Gen-Trojan

Original thread link to people having the issue:

http://www.modernwarfare2.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=181646&sid=a32e6df976d6a59a9835e59b1a00d253

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IllegalPaladin on 18 November 2009

Wow, that's pretty serious if true.

Is it happening while people are using IWnet and the matchmaking? Or is this related to the dedicated servers?

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ultima on 18 November 2009

LOL, wasn't the main point of IWNet to eliminate hackers and cheaters. That's ironic if you ask me.

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Xelloss on 18 November 2009

IllegalPaladin said:

Wow, that's pretty serious if true.

Is it happening while people are using IWnet and the matchmaking? Or is this related to the dedicated servers?

Matchmaking. This is happening through IWnet official matchmaking service, and is unrelated to the cracked console or dedicated server hacks. Basically, if you go online in MW2 on PC you are exposing yourself. I feel bad for all the legit folk who gave IW the benefit of the doubt , paid for MW2 on PC hoping against hope it wasnt as bad as people were saying only to get slammed by a trojan and get all their game accounts hijacked.

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Mudface on 18 November 2009

I think this might be a false positive with Avira. It's flagged up some L4D2 file for me, and it seems to be doing the same for MW2 as well.

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Mudface on 18 November 2009

http://www.mapmodnews.com/article.php/MW2-AVIRA-Crypt.XPACK.Gen-Trojan

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IllegalPaladin on 18 November 2009

Mudface said:
http://www.mapmodnews.com/article.php/MW2-AVIRA-Crypt.XPACK.Gen-Trojan

Yea, in that forum the people talking about seeing it were using Avira.

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JaggedSac on 18 November 2009

We should change the definition of "fag" to pertain to hackers and malicious software spreaders.

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jefforange89 on 18 November 2009

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha this is too hilarious.

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Xelloss on 18 November 2009

Thanks for the update Mudface. Looks like it might be a false positive afterall.

I feel slightly silly now, but better for people to be aware in the event it wasnt a false positive I suppose than saying nothing if it had been a legit threat.

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