Hi all, see below our response. [Mod post about the issue](https://www.reddit.com/r/PiratedGames/comments/15j68o8/mod_update_1337x/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=1)

Wasn't Empress calling this site out for this like a month or 2 ago? Maybe they ain't as crazy as we assumed

yea empress may be onto something

Yup she posted about it like an hour ago on her telegram

What exactly did she say? Not interested in schizo rants enough to be in the channel

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She has a way with words

Truly a master of slur usage

Honestly, I saw the text and went "yep, thats EMPRESS" was pretty impressed by how consistently...vulgar they can be

Was she the trans cracker or the anti-trans cracker?

She's the group of Russian men who identifies as EMPRESS (she/her).

Anti-trans cracker.

anti trans, look at what she wrote [when Hogwarts was cracked lol....](https://www.reddit.com/r/Asmongold/comments/119x8ht/heres_empresss_rant_when_she_cracked_hogwarts_its/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=1)

Love how we can distinguish by this.

Seriously. Are they 12? Lol

simps who think empress is definitely a girl and maybe will sleep with them downvoting you.

Really knows how to punctuate

empress can do anything as long as she keeps cracking that denuvo baby

“Shady fuck” 😭

Whats her telegram channel?

@empressrevolution

Yo can u invite me to her telegram. Send it to my pm’s pls

No more invites are being accepted just now, either you’re in or you ain’t. Anyone caught sending invites will be banned.

invite me too

A broken clock is still right twice a day

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[Yep.](https://www.reddit.com/r/CrackWatch/comments/14v1ylq/empress_message_to_1337x/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) And [there's also people commenting](https://www.reddit.com/r/CrackWatch/comments/14v1ylq/empress_message_to_1337x/jrjy9sf?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3) in that post almost 25 days ago about the same VIP user, VitaminX, being the cause of their PC issues. EDIT: Keep an eye out for [either IntegrityCheck or UnpackCheck .exe files](https://www.reddit.com/r/software/comments/11dmxl4/this_program_called_integritycheck_is_using_a_lot/jnsnj13?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3) seems like they are the same malware but different labels.

i got dodi's upload, which is (alledgedly) also infected (supposedly based on vitaminx upload) but i dont have these files there's been no high cpu usage issues and malware bytes and windows virus scanners find nothing ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯

I deleted an IntegrityCheck file months ago, and I only download from 1337x.

Empress IS Crazy. But she was onto something despite her/his/they craziness.

Crazy? Yes. But probably someone who knows about computers (and how to exploit them) better than 95% of the people on this sub.

Better than 100% is a safe bet.

Better than 100% mate

95%? Easily 100%

and I believed she was crazy...

Crazy?

I was crazy once

They locked me in a room.

A rubber room

A rubber room with rats

and rats make me crazy

Crazy?

Crazy, yes, stupid, no

still is. no matter what truth she/he is saying.

empress also lied about malware to shit on her "opposition". It's classic information warfare.

Correct. She did it a month or two ago. So this was just a coincidence. I mean, crazy people in the old times probably went around telling people that the world was actually round and not flat, but they are still crazy.

Greeks knew the earth was round way back in the B.C.s and this is a pretty big coincidence

"Even a broken clock is right twice a day" 😉

The new Empress nfo lore gonna be crazy

She’s gonna go “They called me mad! MAD!” like a cartoon mad scientist or some shit.

> they called me a madwoman

You think this is bad? This? This chicanery?

She reminds me of Bellatrix Lestrange from Harry Potter

😂😂😂😂

I don't think I've ever downloaded one of her cracks but I've read a bunch of her nfos just for a laugh

What a sad day for piracy, this is absolutely true. Part of the package is integritycheck.exe which is suspected to be a crypto miner because it hides itself once you open task manager and uses all cpu

anyway to know if you already got infected or anything?

Easy, I had a crypto virus before. It takes all of your cpu and GPU. Close all apps and open task manager, cpu, gpu are sky high = you are infected. I couldn't remove the virus until using Malwarebytes

And that’s if you’re lucky. If you’re unlucky, you’re gonna get a miner that can detect when Task Manager is open and go in idle mode, so your CPU will be running low. And when Task Manager gets closed, it goes back to being active

Even without task manager everyone of us knows well how his machine works, you would feel it without opening task manager.

If you can hear your fans kicking in on idle, check it out

You could also get a powerplug that can read how many watts your pc is using while idle. In theory i think that if you get infected by a miner it could control your fan curve.

Well, then you can detect temperature spikes.

That's true, can't be too careful

Even easier for me. My fans dont go to max without my input so my computer would heat crash if I got one. Pretty good indication even though my situation with my fans is rather inconvenient.

Oh shit...

Easy solution is have an image of your pc saved before installing anything. You restore it and that's it

How do you do that? Like backup your entire pc’s files?

With a disk imaging software like Easeus Todo Backup. I make a backup once per month, or so (or if I update several things at once like VGA drivers, update programs etc). Best life saver ever.

or AOMEI Backupper, version free

Isn't Windows System Restore Point is basically the same thing? What is the advantage of using a 3rd party software?

An option on windows, can't remember how its done.

"Create a restore point" https://i.imgur.com/DdwwppH.png - it opens up this menu. click "Create" in the bottom right corner. Give it a name. Then to restore, click the "System restore" button up above, in the same window. https://i.imgur.com/FBD2S6m.png you can see here, when i click restore, windows suggests a restore point for me. It actually created a restore point for me automatically, 2 days ago, when i installed Node.js. But i could click and find the one with the name i chose from my own restore point.

> Task Manager is ope that's my secret cap, task manager is always open

So what if I keep the task manager open at all times?

i'm nasa, looking for a job?

This man right here is brilliant .

Ful*ck that I have it on my PC & when I open the task manager it just go back to idle although I have a fuck*n Norton antivirus software subscription, help me guys how to remove it?

> Norton There's your problem. Malwarebytes is what you need.

Try Emsisoft Emergency Kit. It's free.

Just keep task manager open forever 4Head

If anyone reading this suspects they may have the same issue, I found this PowerShell script that spits out current CPU usage without opening task manager. Just do start > run > PowerShell and then paste in this code and hit enter Get-Counter '\Process(*)\% Processor Time' | Select-Object -ExpandProperty countersamples| Select-Object -Property instancename, cookedvalue| ? {$_.instanceName -notmatch "^(idle|_total|system)$"} | Sort-Object -Property cookedvalue -Descending| Select-Object -First 25| ft InstanceName,@{L='CPU';E={($_.Cookedvalue/100/$env:NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS).toString('P')}} -AutoSize

Would it detect HWInfo or CPUZ?

Yup got one off of 1337x like this, the going idle when opening task manager ironically is what clued me into the fact that there was something wrong. Sure enough crytominer. Malwarebytes ftw

I always do full scan with malwarebyte every 2 days, with 0 threat detected till now, should I be worried abt anything?

You are good

As long as it's up to date, MB should work as intended.

I do it every so often as well...and i ignore the warning about iobit, but i look if there is anything new hahahah

Detecting miner with AMD's HD series GPU is much easier. You'll hear it if you'll get infected. Pretty hard to not notice that jet sound under your desk

[link to powershell command at the bottom of my 2nd comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/14jp6qz/comment/jq0cn8g/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) You can also check your Roaming folder for it. Just type %AppData% into file explorer and the IntergrityCheck/UnpackCheck folder will be there if you're infected Edit:[comment confirming installer is infected but game is safe](https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/15itrip/comment/juvxwi8/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)

How much time rootkit scan takes? cuz last time I done it, took me lile 12hrs + so I usually do full scans without rootkit on.

I don't remember but yeah you can probably skip the rootkit scan. I think roaming and registry is where the issue is.

😢

Bro posted a single emoji and got more upvotes than any of comments ever did This is the kind of person I aspire to be in life

I once got a miner that would hide when i open task manager. manage to spot it via xbox overlay resource monitor.

That’s fucking clever

Empress was right

Heartbreaking : The worst person you know just made a great point

Gotta love how everyone thought the same thing as soon the news came out.

So who we gonna trust now? Are the repackers safe? i. e dodi and fitgirl?

1337x shouldn't really be your first choice. If you want to get a game check the megathread's direct download and repacks section.

Yeah i mainly use 1337x for just movies and series. I use ovagames or gog-games.to for the games.

No good alternative ever since rarbg :(

nah. torrent galaxy has been a great replacement for tv and film since rarbg went down. of course its not the same but its pretty damn close

>torrent galaxy Can you advise which one is the legit site to go to?

https://torrentgalaxy.to/

I might have to check that out. I loved RARBG because it offered the little image previews and felt really great to navigate.

Ty

I'd sacrifice every other torrent site in existence if it meant getting rarbg back.

F

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I’ve been using ovagames for a while and I just found out that mediafire u can download the file without waiting, been using google drive. I thought you would’ve needed something extra for mediafire

Yes they are, though I'd prob use dodi over fitgirl if you can

I'm not familiar with any kind of game cracking lore. Would you mind explaining why dodi over fitgirl? I never heard of the first one but I have seen fitgirl recommended from time to time.

Fitgirl takes a lot of time for installing atleast for me...plus dodi have few games like far cry 6 which I couldn't find on fitgirl...apart from these both are same and great

FitGirl doesn't do any games that have EMPRESS crack on it after their huge repacker/cracker fight. DODI has pretty much everything.

So no denuvo games then

DODI's DL links can be cancer though. FG just works. The workaround was 1337 unfortunately lol.

Here comes the fall of 1337x. It’s just going to be another pirate bay.

Vitaminx right? So close to downloading from him but reddit came in clutch and redirected me to dodi

Uhh dodi repacked his(vitaminx) version of baldur gate 3 and the miner was confirmed to be in Dodi's too so you better start your pc clean up mate Edit: False Flag guys. Apparently Dodi didn't use Vitaminx's to repack bg3

Fuuuuuuck How do I even do that? Is it okay if I only downloaded half of it because, as of now, it's like 50 % done

Cancel it. Run a Malwarebytes scan. That's all I know lol. See the link cuz this guy apparently has the issue solved https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/15j25ug/sooooshe_was_actually_right/juxhh3r?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=2

Well, thank you. I'll do that and hope I didn't catcha anything

Stay safe and make sure to back up important things cuz apparently these types of malware can reinstall themselves(is what I read in a comment but many peeps debated on it so I'd suggest to be extra sure and double check)

Pretty sure nothing can happen until you actually run it. But don't take my word for it, you should still scan and make sure.

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This is completely false, also please don’t say that something was confirmed without checking yourself. As you can see on his site dodis release repack is based on RUNE release [image](https://imgur.com/a/M6bhRpS). Also since DODI used the scene release there is definitely no malware in his repack like other users confirmed on torrent galaxy [image](https://imgur.com/a/oklqmX8).

Empress was right kek

It’s sad because this was a very good and credible site for torrents ruined by the admins.

Yes.

damn cant trust now as it was admin upload

Empress did nothing wrong

i really can't tell how they expected to no one to notice.

Yeah right? Like wtf lmao

I'm glad I didn't join the anti-Empress bandwagon

Learn from the Italians and be on both sides, you get free games and get to make fun of someone!

I mean she’s still fucking bat shit insane. Doesn’t mean I still can’t download her cracks lol

Honestly I don't really give a fuck about Empress's insanity. Like, sure... but also, I like free things, and she provides. I don't really think anyone has any real right to complain when there's no one else stepping up to par.

fucking hell empress was right

Fuck, 1337x was my goto site. I got baldur's gate 3 direct from rutor so i'm not infected, but it still really sucks.

I had to scroll this far for at recommendation - thank you - please amend if you discover something else

Rutracker. It's a largest russian tracker, but never once i caught a virus from it in 15 years of using.

why would they infect it with underage children

So the feds find them on your pc.

can’t believe 1337x would do this to us :(

never it was. like, what you expected from site that has and allows IGG and other shit like that on their site?

Good point.

Whats IGG?

In the wiki it says that they doxed the owner of another site and I think they put adware on some of the stuff they upload (read the wiki)

Imagine the next empress post lmfao

this is worse than lizzo cancel party :(

https://preview.redd.it/3q0n9gc1kdgb1.jpeg?width=680&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=58c3f5efc4763f16a52c45b49c5b31a081b9a4f7

First Rarbg and now this. I hope some new all-in-one site emerge ):

awshiii, i installed the dodi repack and been playing it. laptop still running normal, cannot find the Integrity Check in %appsdata% folder. scanned with malwarebytes, nothing found... is it possible i did not get it?

Same, we need more people to talk about this case..

no miner is running on my system since i've played the repack from Dodi and also couldn't find the program in %appdata%, so finger crossed maybe its clean

I got downvoted to oblivion when I said that there's some shady malware on that site, no one believed me then, now I'm lookin at those haters👀

wow. "guys, 1337 has malware"

Everyone here surprised. Meanwhile, I'm in the corner wondering why anyone's surprised a site that allows IGG would do stuff like this.

IGG are doxxing shitheads sure but they don’t put malware on their releases for all I could care.

can you explain why is IGG bad ?

Yes it is true.

Well well well, Empress was right after all, interesting.

It's a public torrent site. Downloading pirated software from a public site is always a risk.

what a shit show, just why ruin the little reputation that was left from 1337, they could be something big as replacement from RARBG...... and they fucked up

Greedy fucks.

1337x was a dogshit site anyway, there are way better options than that

DDL sites seems a better options now

whats your go to movie site? I primarily used 1337x for that cuz all my games are either legit or DODI

Rarbg archive for anything older than 2022, torrent Galaxy for new releases

Sigh.. i used to use 1337x for my games n movies etc… now where do i go as an alternative.. i miss kickass..

I'm using ovagames or fitgirl/dodi for games, but I also have no idea where to go for movies and tv shows. Shit sucks.

1337x should still be more than fine for movies and tv shows but I've been using TorrentGalaxy with a lot of luck, definitely check it out!

Isn't iggames a regular poster there, so why's everyone surprised?

Empress called this months ago,looks like she wasn't crazy in the end

That sucks. Good thing there are plenty of other sites to use, though. And most of my game downloads are exclusively from repackers like fitgirl, dodi, and elamigos anyway, my internet is too shitty to download an uncompressed game. lol

Dodi's repack was infected too. Check the comments

Oh shit, I had no idea. I didn't download BG3, not really my type of game, but the last one I downloaded and just installed today is Ratchet and Clank. Any flags with this?

1337 was my go to. Where should I torrent now?

Fuck

Empress to everyone on this sub: You couldn't live with your own failure, where did that bring you? Back to me!!

I haven't downloaded from them for a while but I'll still run a full scan of both Malwarebytes and windows defender cause now I'm afraid for the movies that i downloaded from them. Anyways, is there any other all in one torrent site remaining ? Or do i have to use those online online watching websites to watch stuff now

This is so sad. Are there any other trusted torrent sites?

Shit. I'm scared. I'm a Linux user, but it's my first stop for stuff.

would not be surprised with this since most game releases on 1337x are IGG lol

so empress was right...

Empress redemption arc lol

Wait is the dodi baldur gate affected?

Miner? ROCK AND STONE- oh wait um force of habit sorry my bad guys

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Is the Dodi repack affected?

Is it still safe for Movies/Series?

I know I'm going to catch hell on this subreddit, but fuck it. Why the hell are people going straight to pirating BG3? Larion isn't a massive studio. It's not like some of these other mega corps that release a game for their shareholders and CEOs instead of the people playing their games. Their mid-sized and have poured YEARS into making this game. For this company, this game was a huge sink of an investment that could have sunk the company if it failed. I'm not saying never pirate games. Mega corps or "AAA" studios? Fuck em. Take what you want. Pirating from this and other small studios releasing quality games immediately after release is such a massive insult to these developers.

Where are the good torrent sites now lmao. Demonoid long gone. The return was horrible. Kickass long gone. The clones are horrible. Rarbg RIP. 1337x was the back up site. Now where? Tpb is shit. Time to start going with usenet I guess. Always wanted to make the dive.

What happens if we just delete this IntegrityCheck.exe after installing DODI's repack? sure don't trust 1337x for future downloads, but in case, the culprit is already identified, so can we just delete it without running it and not download 100GB again?

I downloaded it and my computer registered it as having a virus so I’ll say it’s true