Your Minecraft may be infected with a virus. [CRITICAL]

[PhoenixSC]

CurseForge mods are now safe to use again! ✅😊

Once again, if you have downloaded any of the listed (updated) mods from any of these websites, please check your system immediately.

[skillz]

⚠️*VERY IMPORTANT* ⚠️
phoenixsc missed this but, In order to see the folder you need to enable hidden files.

[Ishan.khanna]

Good that the community went nuts over this real quick
Bad that even the checkers might have infected versions in the internet

[zoomstrikegaming]

Good job covering this. Its amazing how quick the community was to make virus scanners for it. Props to the contributers!

[LazloRTR]

I don't use mods so thankfully I'm not affected, but man, seeing this after I've _just_ returned to Minecraft for the first time in years made my heart skip a couple of beats

[Azarilh]

I'm glad CurseForge was transparent about it, instead of hiding it under the bed to not look bad for allowing a virus. Kudos to them, i mean it.

[mrdansings]

Thanks for posting this here as well, the more people that share it the better as it’s obviously not going to be heard by everyone if it’s posted in just the more “hardcore” modding communities!

[czpiaor]

Phoenix may make cursed content, but the fact that he also makes serious content like this and warns others about a virus is why I enjoy his videos.

[tomatosoup]

As a mod developer, I’m so glad I saw this today. I had plans to work on and upload new versions for my mod to curseforge (the only platform I use atm) in the next few days, as well as downloading several mods to play with friends. Thank you for informing us, I may have dodged a bullet

[toadGDGD]

I feel like it's so easy to just not be a piece of shit and commit crimes in a game targeted for young children, but certain people really are the worst aren't they.

[Kroooza]

So that everyone knows, the little window that Phoenix used to type %LOCALAPPDATA%/Microsoft Edge is called run. It is preinstalled to ALL windows computers and can be opened by pressing WINDOWS KEY + R
Hope that helps.

[MSSHDMUSIC]

As a Modder myself this Situation is extra serious for me. How this will continue or if the Virus will Stick around for a long time is something we dont know. This is such a big topic that I feel Mojang will see this and maybe do something since Modding has been the Thing that kept Minecraft alive for so long.
To all the Modders out there: Stay safe and continue what you are doing even if something like this is Happening.

[OscarGreenworth]

As someone who hasn’t ever played with mods and plays on a console, I’m glad I’m safe. But I hope this gets taken care of fast.

[pabdira]

just a little reminder to you all, even if you haven't downloaded any of these mods, you should still check it.

[cryptic_daemon_]

While I may not have that mod installed nor playing on the latest version of Minecraft, I thank you for informing not just me, but everyone!!

[SonicEclipse]

The mod "When Dungeons Arise" was one of the mods infected. I was gonna download it for 1.16.5 for my latest video, but i ended up not doing so because i felt like i had enough dungeon mods. Thank god i didn't pedal back on that decision.

[xxo]

Good job informing people about this as quickly as possible, i'm surprised Mojang haven't issued any warnings about this, since it's such an important topic.

[SfIsCool]

I love how pheonix SC actually cares and responds to his community being aware about them getting hacked

[MajorTomFisher]

Honestly it's sort of incredible that this hasn't happened yet already, I just hope the next step is for Forge and Fabric to have to implement their own malware detection code to prevent something like this from happening again.

[destinythegravityfallsfan]

WOW I'm feeling grateful right now. My brother and I got Minecraft back after a while (like years) of not being allowed to, and we were planning on doing mods. However, the whole thing was very stressful, ironically partly because of viruses, so we decided not to do mods. Clearly that was a good thing. I personally like not having a virus uploaded to my computer, thank you very much.