u/Sentinel_2539

Playing this game on PC is annoying sometimes because there's currently a bug where if you're using an Intel 12-14th gen CPU with hyperthreading enabled, the loading times go from a few seconds to several minutes. Feels like I'm playing Skyrim on the 360 again.

I'm using an i7-12700KF and an SSD, so my loading times should be near instant.

Will they ever patch this? Or do they already consider the game a "finished product" that they won't touch again?

I installed CurseForge yesterday to do some Minecraft modding, and all was going okay. I installed:

• Iris
• Tree Harvester
• Sodium
• Just Enough Items
• Collective (a dependencies file for certain mods)

All of these have millions of downloads, so I assumed them to be safe.

I also downloaded the "Complementary Shaders Unbound" from modrinth.com, which, again, had millions of downloads from a reputable site.

Well today, I booted up my PC, and was met with several CMD boxes opening and immediately closing, and a Windows pop up saying that Game Bar couldn't load. Strange.

I did some digging, and found that CurseForge was now in my startup apps (which I disabled), and there was a new scheduled task set to execute every day at 14:33 (when I booted up my PC) and every time my user account was signed into. Stranger.

This scheduled task referenced an Opera GX updater (which I have never installed) and pointed to an Opera GX updater .exe that wasn't even present on my device under the Administrator user account which isn't even enabled. Worse, the author of the task was "WIN-*random characters*\Administrator". Not my device or me.

I deleted the scheduled task, ran a Windows Security Offline Scan, and am currently running a full ESET scan to be safe. So far, both have come back clean.

After this, I'm going to use Autoruns to carefully inspect all non-Microsoft tasks to check for persistence.

Very, very odd to see behaviour like this coming from what I thought was a reputable tool. I have not downloaded anything else other than that which is listed in this post.