Trojanized Super Mario Bros game spreads malware (securityaffairs.com)

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[-] ono@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago

Friendly reminder: It's a good idea to assume any installer from an untrusted/unofficial source is malware.

[-] cavemeat@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

Huh, I wonder what site this installer was hosted on. It seems that (based on a cursory google search for this game) a wide variety of game sites, from reputable stuff to more questionable ones, host the installation files for this game. I wonder how many are infected.

[-] joshLaserbeam@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I remember getting a virus from that game like 10 years ago. I had to do a system restore to fix it.

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