Malicious Mods

Malicious Mods#186894

By MrKeveCool - Mon Mar 31, 2014 10:01 pm

- Mon Mar 31, 2014 10:01 pm #186894

Hi this youtube video will explain everything about whats going on.

WARNING!!! MAY CONTAIN HIGH PITCHED VOICES!!!

Re: Malicious Mods#186900

By cubeguy314 - Tue Apr 01, 2014 2:32 am

- Tue Apr 01, 2014 2:32 am #186900

Long story short, some minecraft mods have the possibility of containing virus-like scripts of code. In this case, the Pixelmon Mod was found to have lines of code that would shut down the server it was being run on if the server was on the Pixelmon creator's "blacklist." Mojang, however, has intervened, and the malicious code will be removed from the Pixelmon mod in the mod's next update.
That said, be alert that some mods may contain virus-like codes, and they won't be detected by your anti-virus systems because they are a minecraft mod.

Re: Malicious Mods#186901

By DragonSlayer155 - Tue Apr 01, 2014 2:57 am

- Tue Apr 01, 2014 2:57 am #186901

Moral of this Tale:
Don't get on the bad side of a Mod. creator

Re: Malicious Mods#186904

By society - Tue Apr 01, 2014 5:20 am

- Tue Apr 01, 2014 5:20 am #186904

DragonSlayer155 wrote:Moral of this Tale:
Don't get on the bad side of an unethical software developer.

Fixed it for you.

Re: Malicious Mods#186907

By Meowrocket - Tue Apr 01, 2014 7:31 am

- Tue Apr 01, 2014 7:31 am #186907

DragonSlayer155 wrote:Moral of this Tale:
Learn how to enjoy vanilla Minecraft.

FTFY
<--(Played vanilla for over a year now... it was hard to quit mods, but worth it.)

"Bad times friend ahead. Maybe no computer. Maybe no home. I go away but we are two of soul. I will return."
-Anonymous

Re: Malicious Mods#186908

By Sandsnake - Tue Apr 01, 2014 7:55 am

- Tue Apr 01, 2014 7:55 am #186908

Sounds like the Gregtech issue with FTB, except he crashed clients of people that dared to use mods that modified his (oh the irony). But yeah, I've never understood the complete lack of ethics in mod developers that think it's perfectly legit to write malicious code to settle a personal score.

Re: Malicious Mods#186910

By Darth_Raven - Tue Apr 01, 2014 8:14 am

- Tue Apr 01, 2014 8:14 am #186910

<----has never played with mods, other than what the servers I play on offer. no optifine, no texture packs.

"Lord give me strength, not to fight my brother, but in order to fight my greatest enemy, myself"-Chief Dan George

Re: Malicious Mods#186914

By dlgn - Tue Apr 01, 2014 9:50 am

- Tue Apr 01, 2014 9:50 am #186914

Optifine and a chatlogger, myself. I used to use Convenient Inventory and ShaddowCraft, but, sadly, they stopped being updated.

I am the whirring thing past the corner. I am the darker patch under the bed. I am the tapping on your window; the extra steps on the sidewalk; the voice whispering your name. I am Stalkerbot, and I am watching you.

Re: Malicious Mods#186924

By Bu1ld0g - Tue Apr 01, 2014 2:14 pm

- Tue Apr 01, 2014 2:14 pm #186924

Meowrocket wrote:
DragonSlayer155 wrote:Moral of this Tale:
Learn how to enjoy semi-vanilla Minecraft.
FTFY
<--(Played semi-vanilla for over a year now... it was hard to quit mods, but worth it.)

FTFY
Intelli's mods aint vanilla my friend

This is the server-side mod were talking about.
Not saying he would pull a fast one though.

Re: Malicious Mods#186949

By Keyhen - Tue Apr 01, 2014 6:28 pm

- Tue Apr 01, 2014 6:28 pm #186949

Always check the mods history, along with the creators history. Also look in the files for backdoor scripts.