Malware Wave in Itch.io Comments


Some of you might have noticed the recent wave of malware links going on in the comments of all kinds of NSFW Tagged games on itch.
As I've had to delete far too many of these in the last days - ever since itch reindexed unpaid NSFW games - I've decided it's large enough to warrant a heads up.

Never download anything from a link in itch comments or comments anywhere for that matter. If the game is hosted on itch, use the official download buttons. No claims of a more recent update or the like is ever true.


As a side note, it's obvious that this is part of the current censorship wave hitting the internet. If it's some lone actor taking their shot as the situation sucks for people already, or if it's actual strategy for the effort is beyond me - still, be careful. There's no doubt in my mind that there's a large effort going on right now that is anything but good.

Stay safe!

/Grunt

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Maybe it's the same attitude of the guys who are aiming to shut down NSFW/Adult Art altogether - it's just their fanatical INCEL-fans, who somehow learned to code, too, and then go on a "righteous mission to harm their opponents", you see? (Well, actually, they don't even need to know coding themselves I learned yesterday - now "A.I." can write malware code for people, that even adapts and becomes quite dangerous...)

Either that or they're just trying to financially or otherwise harm people because they can...humans can be despicable like that and greed-based economy doesn't do shit to limit this - especially since the idiot in the US came to power there.

Well, all that bigotry will eventually fall into decay and fade again, too - one way or another (not sure fanatical humans have any limit as to what they would got to, so it might have to be others who set boundaries and stop them though.).

This is dark stuff, I know - but we can deal with darkness together...we have in the past and so it's proven, that together we can get this "Age of (willful) Ignorance" resolved (again)...but it always comes at a cost (time, effort, for some even truly severe ones, that I don't really wanna mention, but am well aware of).

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According to kurzgesagt: Only 50% of the internet is still done be Human Being. 20% are Bots and A.I Slop/stolen content and the other 30% are harmfull Bots, Malware, A.I - Fake News. Think about that...

Yeah, that makes it only worse - since who makes the bots and other crap? Fewer rich morons, who don't want certain stuff on there and want to dominate the whole thing. It's just another crap-consequence of rewarding anti-social behavior that is ingrained and the very Essence of "de-regulated/unhinged" Capitalism. And because corrupt Politicians have helped undermining trust into Governments from their bs "policies", that helps stretching the gap between rich and poor further (them being rich and their voters getting increasingly poorer), people even vote for their own demise these days (again). It's the f-ing Text-book-pattern for Demagoguery in any earlier Democracies....and it still works even thousands of years later nowadays because people are incapable or just exhausted of fact-checking everything they come across the Media (not just Online though, but also "old-fashioned" media which also get their information from Online-Sources, btw.).
This whole system is breaking its own neck at an increasing pace and I dunno if we'll survive this "disruption" this time, which might be worse than anything Humanity has faced given the High-Tech Weaponry we have and no clue what letting loose agentic A.I. Killing-Robots might be capable of!
Good Luck to us all...and maybe some folks in positions with access to this crap, can just make sure that some of these really obviously dumb "ideas" will not see the Light of Day...

thank you

Its scam bots it was happening for i think over a month before all the censorship issues.

Those karens are quite salty, i really hope they get the rude awakening that is extremly angry governments over computer espionage and violation.

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Scam bots are omnipresent and eternal

Sad but true, update to the old idiom: nothing's true in life but death, taxes, and scam bots.

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😮‍💨this sucks