visby Posted March 22, 2013 Posted March 22, 2013 This was reported yesterday http://www.gameranx.com/updates/id/13568/article/skyrim-nexus-reportedly-compromised-by-malware-hack/ Don't know if its true but I'm going to stay away from Nexus for a few days anyway.
RomeoZero Posted March 22, 2013 Posted March 22, 2013 i use manual download always , so if any shit happens AVG inetsec blocks all the crap of internet.Another thing is admins...
Guest Posted March 22, 2013 Posted March 22, 2013 http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/news/299/ They indeed got hacked but fixed the issue after an hour...atleast that's what they say. And it only affected manual downloads.
Deep Red Posted March 22, 2013 Posted March 22, 2013 I thought it was just me at first, but didn't think much of it. When manually downloading stuff from there, I would occasionally get prompted to download a "Nexus.exe". I just thought to myself "Oh great, they want me to download more software to be allowed to download mods? Fuck that." and retried the manual download. The second time around I didn't get prompted again, but it continued happening every time I tried to download something. Staying away from the Nexus for a few days now that my hunch has been confirmed.
Rayblue Posted March 22, 2013 Posted March 22, 2013 If looked closely by right-clicking on the suspect file for properties, the text is mostly Russian.
myuhinny Posted March 26, 2013 Posted March 26, 2013 Never had any prompts pop up from the nexus. I use avast which is a really good virus killer along with zone alarm and malwarebytes anti malware remover.
delilah Posted March 27, 2013 Posted March 27, 2013 i got those nexus downloader popups too... but i learned way back to match filenames and sizes before clicking on the ok button.
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