MSI Afterburner Laced with Malware Circulating in the Wild

[Bomby569]

*sigh*

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All this nice kind people paying for domains, servers and ads just to spread afterburner. The internet is a wonderful place.

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

Again?

I think this happened before, agessssss ago if it did.


People that have malware either do it intentionally or are completely stupid and should have their devices and computer taken away like...I was gonna say "like some little kid" but then it dawned on me (no crack of Dawn jokes please), its prolly little kids getting the malware and the parents reporting it. This makes the parents just as stupid for not teaching the kids properly.

 

[SomeOne99h]

The latest version can be found here.
MSI Afterburner 4.6.5 Beta 4 Build 16358

MSI AB / RTSS development news thread

RTSS 7.3.4 Beta 6 Build 27502 is online, changes list is available a few posts above....

forums.guru3d.com

Ooooh! Thank you mate! hope guru3d would upload these to their main site as well.

 

[bug]

*sigh*

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The real sad part is that you don't even expect people to understand what those links mean anymore

Edit: And if you modify the installer, the signature is invalidated, which raises the question: do these modified installers carry a proper signature?

 

[kapone32]

If you download your AMD software from AMD.official,for.real.com then who do you blame?

Msi Afterburner still rocks people who download software from malicious websites have only themself to blame!

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LOL. Many people today take things at face value without context, you get what you deserve if you do that but why should that site exist. I download it from the Adrenline software when it says download though. Other than that AMD is one of my favorites so it comes up first as soon as I type in AMD.

 

[Jism]

And this is exactly why you use an adblock. You cant trust party's like google, FB, IG nothing no more with their automation routine check on ads.

Tip: Adblock + Ublock at the same time.

 

[bug]

And this is exactly why you use an adblock.

Because you can't read URLs? That's not why I use one.

 

[ThomasK]

Google getting paid to show results with ads containing virus, malware and whatnot.

What a whack job.

 

[Jism]

Because you can't read URLs? That's not why I use one.

Its obviously because of the "Adv" elements on Google search for example.

You block those. But also other partners. Its a shame we came to this point but really you cant trust the majority of these advertisement platforms anymore.

 

[SirB]

Long time ago, MSI released a beta version, but I couldn't find it in their site, and tried then to dig their site but find nothing. Only guru3D would help me on this.
This time MSI is uploading the beta version in their site as the main version.

Umm, because 3D Guru developed it. MSI really has nothing to do with this software besides paying to have their name on it.

 

[neatfeatguy]

People aren't going to change. Folks still tend to click through popups when they install things.

You could literally have a popup say "Clicking YES will install a virus. Do you wish to continue?" And they'll just click on YES.

Best you can do is try to keep people informed.

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
Yeah duckduckgo and start page work just fine at finding msi's website on top
Start page being the best of course at finding all legitimate download site

Even found bleeping computers article

 

[64K]

People don't seem to know basic things about PCs. A friend of mine got one of those ransom things where you can't close the screen out in the normal way and it wouldn't let him log off from his browser. I showed him how to use Task Manager to close the browser.

 

[CrAsHnBuRnXp]

And then Google is Surprised Pikachu that people use ad-blockers.

Ads ARE the malware of the world !

I dont care who the business is, im running an adblocker no matter what and never turn it off for any reason.

 

[bug]

People don't seem to know basic things about PCs. A friend of mine got one of those ransom things where you can't close the screen out in the normal way and it wouldn't let him log off from his browser. I showed him how to use Task Manager to close the browser.

Right up there with "oh no, the browser didn't open on google.com, where do I enter the URL?".

 

[natr0n]

use ublock origin youll never see shit like that. unblock it here on TPU of course.

laced with...makes me think of fentanyl btw

 

[b1k3rdude]

+1 for doing that but personally I don't even bother with a "black-list" Firewall (allow by default, block by exception) anymore. There's so much spyware and telemetry BS these days that I find running a white-list Firewall (block everything by default, allow by exception) is the only sane option.

I can see your point and WFC is basically doing that already as EVERTHING has to request access, and I only allow stuff through.

 

[lexluthermiester]

For some perspective, this is what I see when looking for anything, including Afterburner;

The situation described in this article is exactly why adblockers are so important and critical. It does not matter that things like this happen once in a while, they happen and such is unacceptable. We can't count on the likes of big corporations(not just Google, these kinds of things happen on microsoft's own Bing search frequently as well) to protect us, that responsibility is our own. AdBlockers and other privacy & security tools are critical to the general public protecting itself.

use ublock origin youll never see shit like that.

Agreed. UBlock is excellent, but it's not the only good adblocker out there.

unblock it here on TPU of course.

Also agree with this point. TPU is one of the few places on the net that is actually ad safe. W1zzard takes personal pride in this place and actually cares about the visitors, audience and forum users.

 

[bug]

For some perspective, this is what I see when looking for anything, including Afterburner;
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The situation described in this article is exactly why adblockers are so important and critical. It does not matter that things like this happen once in a while, they happen and such is unacceptable. We can't count on the likes of big corporations(not just Google, these kinds of things happen on microsoft's own Bing search frequently as well) to protect us, that responsibility is our own. AdBlockers and other privacy & security tools are critical to the general public protecting itself.


Agreed. UBlock is excellent, but it's not the only good adblocker out there.

Also agree with this point. TPU is one of the few places on the net that is actually ad safe. W1zzard takes personal pride in this place and actually cares about the visitors, audience and forum users.

Fwiw, I don't get those whether I enable the ad blocking or not. Do ad blockers really block Google's own ads on google.com?

 

[caroline!]

*sigh*

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I mean. It's g**gle after all, eww.

Half the site must be ads by now, I pity the poor souls who don't know about adblockers yet.
"msl aftenburner" and "mci" are there lol, and it works on any crd! gives you coplete control!

 

[the54thvoid]

Fwiw, I don't get those whether I enable the ad blocking or not. Do ad blockers really block Google's own ads on google.com?

Yeah, I'm on mobile (chrome with Google) and the first three results are all genuine MSI, and the 4th result is an article about the malware.

Is this because I'm using a Pixel device in Google's environment so I'm not getting ads? I don't use adblockers.

 

[erek]

I like my Afterburner like I like my shoes,.....laced

Haha

 

[noel_fs]

why make such a sensational post

 

[lexluthermiester]

Do ad blockers really block Google's own ads on google.com?

Oh yes!

why make such a sensational post

How do you not understand this problem?

 

[Dammeron]

Auftenburner, I like it. Zero hits on Google, it's mine!

Auftenburner... Someone went really german on that one.