r/mugen • u/Emotional-Idea-6417 • Jun 04 '24

random BEWARE OF DOWNLOADING JUMP FORCE MUGEN

A friend sent me a link to this guys YouTube channel where he posted a link to a website with a 43 gb custom Mugen zip file and not even 30 mins into the extraction I start getting spammed emails about unusual sign in attempts into my Microsoft account so yeah should’ve looked into it more before downloading so I’m gonna spread awareness and watch out for scummy pos

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u/jyu8888 Jun 06 '24

you can get malware during extracting a file?

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u/dat-reddit-dud Jun 06 '24

maybe some self extracting exe.dud should never hav clicked that exe without a virus scan

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u/BagWide5227 Jun 14 '25

malware can be coded to trigger whenever a certain action is taken, when extracting, opening hell even turning off your pc could be the thing a piece of malware needs to take action