Followup Post on the "Infostealer" Thread
TLDR If you dont want to read much, else, continue reading below.
>!Downloaded Death Stranding 2 and Windrose from Anker Games on my gaming setup and it contained an infostealer (my best guess). A couple days later, Discord and Instagram were hijacked, passwords changed by attackers.!<
>!The malware planted two executables (DD.exe / PP.exe) in C:\Users\[Name]\ set to auto-run on every boot, giving persistent access to browser-saved credentials. Everything browser-saved was compromised: Discord accounts, Battle.net, Riot/League, Steam accounts without 2FA. Attackers then used the hijacked accounts to spam 500+ people with a crypto scam. Had to nuke and reformat the drive twice. According to brainrot Reddit, im an old boomer who just "clicked on an ad and downloaded something haha"!<
Mods closed my original post without comment but left all the misinformation up, so here’s the simplified version for the people not suffering from terminal Reddit brainrot.
Apparently the official conclusion is that I “downloaded an ad.” Which is honestly impressive considering I literally stated I have TWO separate setups, and the one that got hit is basically a locked-down gaming/streaming PC that only has Steam, Twitch, YouTube, Discord, and a Chromium based Browser with literally only Ankergames, YT, Twitch, and Instagram bookmarked and used.
Not the other machine where you could actually argue I might encounter sketchy websites because of work-related stuff. Nope. Clearly I just woke up one morning after 10+ years online without malware issues and decided to click “FREE_GAME_2026.exe.” that magically appeared on what website exactly?
What’s even crazier is this apparently all-knowing advertisement also knew exactly what game I was downloading, copied the executable name, matched the file structure, used the official logo, and blended in perfectly. I guess this "ad" was a military-grade shapeshifting malware developed by the Evil Avengers.
I also never said Ankergames is “100% unsafe.” I explicitly said I never had issues before and this was the first time something happened. But people online can only process two opinions: either a site is perfectly safe forever, or it’s a cybercrime operation run out of a cave. The concept that piracy sites can be generally fine while still carrying risk seems way too intellectually demanding for some of you.
And yes, piracy itself is risky. That’s reality. I don’t care how many people say “I used it for years.” You are still downloading repacks, third-party uploads, and redistributed files. Acting shocked that something could eventually go wrong is like entering a casino and being emotionally devastated that gambling exists.
The only actual mistake on my side was importing old passwords because I was too lazy to manually write my long random-generated ones from my phone.
The entire reason I even made the original post was simply to warn people to check their startup entries, browser sessions, autofill data, and might think about deleting saved passwords if they use piracy sites at all. I never told anyone to stop using Ankergames. But apparently giving a basic security warning and report on my experience caused some people to react like I personally attacked their religion.
Your anecdotal evidence of "No bro, i used Ankergames for so long 100% safe" is literally as meaningless as MY POST, saying im pretty sure some Ankergames files are unsafe. You cannot prove your case, i cant either.
All im saying is, check your system, download the Autorun sTU from the official Windows page, and check yourself.
And now, you NPCs can all go jump to the comments i cba, its a old burner account. Downvote me all you want.
PS : Grammar checked by Claude, just to make sure this time there is no "bad wording" accident.