Tens of thousands of 'Watch Dogs' pirates ENSLAVED by Bitcoin botmaster

[Zeratul_]

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Pirates who have downloaded one of the most popular torrent files of this week’s big game release Watch Dogs – ironically, themed around computer hacking – have come in for an unpleasant surprise, reports gaming site Gamecrastinate.
The game, whose official release is May 26th, was pirated using various software, but one of the most popular “torrent” files – often used to pirate large files such as games – came with an unwelcome stowaway in the form of malware, according to Slashgear.
“Oh, the irony,” commented Slashgear ’s Chris Davies on Twitter. Fans who had downloaded the SKIDROW version of the game found that a file entitled Winlogon.exe was consuming 25% of their computer’s power, reportedly mining the cryptocurrency Bitcoin for unknown criminals, according to Slashgear.

My thoughts: So if your playing pirated one, better uninstall it asap and do a scan of malware, anti-virus asap. Better do clean uninstall if it can't be helped.

Lessons in life: Buy the Original. You help the developers and as well can play multiplayer!

more: Watch Dogs malware ?*pirates hit by bit-coining malware

[risklight]

i'm pretty sure its winlogin.exe not winlogon.exe

winlogon.exe is legit windows program

[Iamalbertrebs]

the real meaning of leech and sharing

[Zeratul_]

I don't know which is which but when you see duplicate name programs running same processing power.. dli jd ka kabantay if wala kay no how on tech side.. but hell these hackers able to get millions of dollars within weekends especially those people ga apas lang og maka dula aning hack game.

So I've shared this news since this game is a hot game this days..

[nikkonymous]

Tagam. Daghana ra ba nako kaila ga pirate. Wa pa gani release date naka duwa na.tsk

[Zeratul_]

bka bro ilang mga pc naa natoy nakadagan nga bitcoin..

[Draco]

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get a physical copy or buy and download it...