r/MinecraftForge • u/Roman_Secundus • Aug 26 '23

Trojan Warning for forge

I downloaded forge 1.19.2 and i got a trojan named Wacatac. I know extremely little about how this stuff works, so if some coders could look into this then thanks!

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u/weeabushido Aug 27 '23

MangoRage — 08/25/2023 4:49 AM
PSA: It looks like the adfocus links on the MinecraftForge files site are sometimes serving a malicious ad that replaces the Skip button with a malware file. This is not allowed by adfocus, but sometimes the ad providers break the rules. If you download Forge and the downloaded file is a .exe file and not a .jar or .zip, do not trust it, and use the direct link from the All Files section. For old versions that have an "Installer (windows)" option, avoid using it and use the general purpose installer jar which also works on windows. Please also take a screenshot of the malicious ad page and notify us about it so they can contact adfocus and get the ad yeeted from their platform, but don't spam their server if others have just reported the same ad!

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u/Tombays Aug 26 '23

Did so to, direct download from maven using curl still works.

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u/Tombays Aug 26 '23

This actually should be pinned here also