ChintzyGnat Posted January 24, 2025 Share Posted January 24, 2025 I know some friends who are having issues with a "virus" like mod causing chat to be spammed with messages We particularly beleive it was caused by say about your ping which has now been removed from workshop. ID 2847661374 for the folder. As we know mostly forge players have been affected. My friends have removed this mod and it is still happening, they also tried re-downloading them all and it still affects them. I haven't seen anything about it anywhere so I'm posting to spread awareness. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/163311-malicious-mod/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSimp Posted January 24, 2025 Share Posted January 24, 2025 Very true, have been trying to figure this out with some friends for a bit now.. Can klei say something about this? Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/163311-malicious-mod/#findComment-1787841 Share on other sites More sharing options...
frds Posted January 24, 2025 Share Posted January 24, 2025 Having this issue myself and seen many others with it. Currently attempting to delete/unsubscribe all my mods to see if that fixes it. Anyone have luck getting rid of this? Lots of rumors going around on discord/steam chats about causes. Would like to know what's going on. EDIT: Was able to remove the spamming from my account by deleting and unsubscribing from all mods. Waiting to see if there's more info before I join servers again. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/163311-malicious-mod/#findComment-1787842 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radicaljoe Posted January 24, 2025 Share Posted January 24, 2025 I've seen this too, my friends said they had auto-subscribe off and they still got infected. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/163311-malicious-mod/#findComment-1787847 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Natallay Posted January 24, 2025 Share Posted January 24, 2025 I am one of the friends. Would love some insight on how to fix this! Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/163311-malicious-mod/#findComment-1787849 Share on other sites More sharing options...
penguin0616 Posted January 24, 2025 Share Posted January 24, 2025 Some pubs, a notable example being a few Reforged pubs, are hosting lookalike mods that infect your other mods and spam messages as shown in the screenshot. The lookalike mods, when viewing the mod list, look like normal mods, such as Epic Healthbar and Show Me. They are not legitimate and infected you. It is recommended that you avoid joining pubs with mods without having heavily scrutinized their mod lists. I have reached out to some of you on Discord to help fix your mods; check your message requests. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/163311-malicious-mod/#findComment-1788015 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echsrick Posted January 24, 2025 Share Posted January 24, 2025 i read if i remember correctly...to fix it you actualy have to go into folders and look for code or something in there to delete it manualy, or something like that i forgot what exactly it was Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/163311-malicious-mod/#findComment-1788063 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaymime Posted January 24, 2025 Share Posted January 24, 2025 oh jeez Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/163311-malicious-mod/#findComment-1788067 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheggf Posted January 24, 2025 Share Posted January 24, 2025 1 hour ago, penguin0616 said: Some pubs, a notable example being a few Reforged pubs, are hosting lookalike mods that infect your other mods and spam messages as shown in the screenshot. The lookalike mods, when viewing the mod list, look like normal mods, such as Epic Healthbar and Show Me. They are not legitimate and infected you. It is recommended that you avoid joining pubs with mods without having heavily scrutinized their mod lists. I have reached out to some of you on Discord to help fix your mods; check your message requests. Do the malicious mods do anything other than make you spam chat messages? Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/163311-malicious-mod/#findComment-1788139 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowDuelist Posted January 24, 2025 Share Posted January 24, 2025 What are the spam messages about? Pls don’t tell me they imply being disgruntled about Wendy somehow, it would be peak cringe. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/163311-malicious-mod/#findComment-1788307 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kova_ Posted January 24, 2025 Share Posted January 24, 2025 Klei has removed the malicious mods. However, removing the mods from the internet still keeps them in your folders in your computer. So if you still have the spam messages. You can follow a small guide that we made to our players on Meow servers how to get rid of the virus "residues". If you have problems Turn off DST. Make a backup of the game worlds in your machine. Remove file `c:\Users\{USER}\Documents\Klei\DoNotStarveTogether\{NUMBER}\customcommands.lua` Unsubscribe to all the mods. Remove all folders in `c:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\322330\` if any (those are mod folders) Fully reinstall DST (verify) Subscribe back to the mods. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/163311-malicious-mod/#findComment-1788339 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragonboooorn Posted January 24, 2025 Share Posted January 24, 2025 Ive been away from DST for a few months because game become boring and so are recent updates, just came back for seasonal update check and tf is this lol? Is this tf2 situation all over again? Ive seen bots, now were havin trojans? lmao Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/163311-malicious-mod/#findComment-1788353 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kipper0k Posted January 24, 2025 Share Posted January 24, 2025 2 hours ago, ShadowDuelist said: What are the spam messages about? Pls don’t tell me they imply being disgruntled about Wendy somehow, it would be peak cringe. is the displeasure that the Zarklord responded to me however I have now disabled it, for it to go away completely you need to log into the game twice Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/163311-malicious-mod/#findComment-1788402 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain_Rage Posted January 24, 2025 Share Posted January 24, 2025 A mod: someone / something changes your game files or how your game runs (can you think of the name of another type of software that does that?). The responsibility of you allowing modifications to your game comes down to you. A warning in the game explicitly tells you that, on top of it all. There is a good reason why I never liked the concept of mods in DST and stay away from them as far as possible. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/163311-malicious-mod/#findComment-1788431 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echsrick Posted January 24, 2025 Share Posted January 24, 2025 11 hours ago, Cheggf said: Do the malicious mods do anything other than make you spam chat messages? there was alsol a report of someone who got this text box AND it was NOT dissmisable, meaning that player HAD to shutdown the entire game Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/163311-malicious-mod/#findComment-1788644 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plevtaro Posted January 25, 2025 Share Posted January 25, 2025 10 hours ago, Echsrick said: there was alsol a report of someone who got this text box AND it was NOT dissmisable, meaning that player HAD to shutdown the entire game Sheesh that's some creepypasta/piracy screen tier message. What mod(s) could've done that? Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/163311-malicious-mod/#findComment-1788923 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echsrick Posted January 25, 2025 Share Posted January 25, 2025 41 minutes ago, Plevtaro said: Sheesh that's some creepypasta/piracy screen tier message. What mod(s) could've done that? some well, mod that looks normal but is actualy a copy of something else but alsol harmfull Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/163311-malicious-mod/#findComment-1788935 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bumber64 Posted January 25, 2025 Share Posted January 25, 2025 11 hours ago, Echsrick said: You shouldn't have done that... Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/163311-malicious-mod/#findComment-1788947 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowercase skye Posted January 25, 2025 Share Posted January 25, 2025 18 hours ago, Captain_Rage said: There is a good reason why I never liked the concept of mods in DST and stay away from them as far as possible. This is the first time something malicious has been done with them literally ever in the over a decade of mod support, to my knowledge. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/163311-malicious-mod/#findComment-1788951 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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