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I got malware from downloading some sketchy software once. They gained access to my old TH-cam account and uploaded about 50 of those malware videos, all advertised as free cheats. My TH-cam account was later banned. I had hundreds of private videos on there back from my childhood when I did some electronic content creation. It held a lot of core memories. I contacted TH-cam and they said they wont do anything as they had no proof that it was someone else uploading the videos and not me. It's truly a shame.
If there are 400 emojis in the title, with terrible English and 15 similar videos talking about cheats with similar style of editing and of course, a Google Drive or MediaFire link with a password-protected ZIP file, that is the BIGGEST red flag.
We used to have a dislike button on TH-cam that would immediately tell you whether or not a tutorial was legit. We did not know how good we had it until it was gone.
You couldn’t even see dislike until you gave a video your view. Also like. Did anyone actually use them other than a way to be mad at something? See: whatever ‘controversy’ conservative media is mad at getting dislike bombed regardless of quality
Immediate red flags: - Password protected zip file (antivirus detection) - Download from mediafire or megaupload - 1 million emojis in title - terrible english - shit editing - "open source" repos that just download a closed source program (just exec a fetch or something) Also a message to all the "hackers" out there looking for cheats, get good, and I am guaranteeing you that one day, legal action will be taken against individuals who cheat in video games.
Great in depth video for something that's a massive problem on TH-cam, yet a small amount of people seems to raise awareness for it. Keep up the great work!
I pushed all of them behind the scenes to TH-cam, someone in threat intel also did for "Download-Links". I wouldn't be surprised if TH-cam curtail about links for new channels outright.
Google needs to take responsibility, a multi billion corporation should be on this issue with these scam channels. Then again they can’t even keep a browser secure -_-
As you say, the issue is that TH-cam only treat the symptom of the problem (the accounts surfacing the links) and not the root cause (the links themselves). If you can write python code to find the videos and links, I’m not sure why TH-cam can’t do it too.
actually,most of the channels that post that stuff are mostly hacked channels,it happened to my friend once,and fortunately they managed to get it back and delete the video
What do you mean these youtube videos with all caps titles, full of buzzwords and bizarre comments, hack me? Oh, and the ones with emojis. I find those kind of funny
Years ago on a random fps game a guy on my friends list I had known for maybe a week sent me a link for cheats. I was 13 and thought it would be fun to just kill everyone. It wasn't a virus and my account was never banned. I guess I was very lucky. It got pretty boring after a few days and I've never cheated in another game since. I'm still pretty ashamed of myself haha
@@Cainny It was the family laptop I got to use for like one hour every night. So he wouldn't have gotten much of a show... I'm still surprised that I've never gotten an obvious virus or malware or whatever over the years. I've visited so many sketchy websites and downloaded lots of stuff. Maybe I'm still being watched
I love when you read some weird line or url that doesn't make sense and you just break out laughing. 90% of the stuff you show is way to advanced for my peanut brain but I can't even begin to imagine how much meme stuff you see while digging through all them malwares. 😂😂
The game I play Hypixel Skyblock has this as a huge problem as well. What's interesting to me about the skyblock ones specifically though is that the people distributing the malware create hundreds of fake youtube channels of real players in the game, using there ign and pfp to make it look more trustworthy.
I thought of what might prevent bad actor channels. Make it so you can't interact on TH-cam in any way for 30 days other then watch videos on a new account. No comments, no uploads, no way to change your channel banner or name. Nothing!
That does nothing. So they have to wait 30 days so what? They wait 30 days. And in the mean time they make a bunch of other accounts so their 30 day timer will already be in progress and ready to go by the time they are done with the first one.
Calling it “a little” malware problem is putting it lightly, searching for anything that requires a download even legit things has 99% of it being malware
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There have been popping up a lot of roblox executors/exploits many of which are either skidded or remain a mystery when it comes to whether it's malware or not and almost no one is doing a legitimate analysis of the program to confirm or deny such rumours. Could you please check them out?
hey you should do a video on how to save this VM if it was your actual pc and if it would even be salvageable lol. like for example after you click and donwload all these different .exe, extensions or other files
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alright.
That's Brilliant. (dad joke moment)
i get it, you need some money to feed yourself and your family, im ok with it
Cheats are like candy, you get a high when you use it, then it crashes you, and makes you regret ever having it.
i think youre talking about cocaine not candy g
@@tacodoritos2421potato potato
Good analogy
@@tacodoritos2421 I guess it's already like candies to him 💀
this is so real
I got malware from downloading some sketchy software once. They gained access to my old TH-cam account and uploaded about 50 of those malware videos, all advertised as free cheats. My TH-cam account was later banned. I had hundreds of private videos on there back from my childhood when I did some electronic content creation. It held a lot of core memories. I contacted TH-cam and they said they wont do anything as they had no proof that it was someone else uploading the videos and not me. It's truly a shame.
they also deleted my playlist on my old account like wtf??
why would a playlist get banned
i look around for these videos copy the download link test it on triage VM then report it to autorties with report attached
they will give big youtubers their accounts back though
i had the EXACT same thing happen to me aswell, quite sad that it seems to be a widespread issue
TH-cam "yeah nah bots dont upload 50 scam videos, it was you. thats a very typical thing guys like you do. no backsies"
If there are 400 emojis in the title, with terrible English and 15 similar videos talking about cheats with similar style of editing and of course, a Google Drive or MediaFire link with a password-protected ZIP file, that is the BIGGEST red flag.
And literally everything in caps in the thumbnail.
Or you have to turn off real time protection
they are so silly why dont they just upload proper videos
@@hiddenguy67Because they want people to download their malware?
@@nikkiofthevalley they look obviously fake though
TH-cam is too busy show us ads instead of banning trash of the platform.
Trying to shove as many ads down our face before we leave the platform. Just google being google
And youtube also doesn't fix some bugs
and also won't ban pdf file kris ava Tyson
You get what you deserve xD
They only do it when it makes them lose money
We used to have a dislike button on TH-cam that would immediately tell you whether or not a tutorial was legit. We did not know how good we had it until it was gone.
You couldn’t even see dislike until you gave a video your view.
Also like. Did anyone actually use them other than a way to be mad at something? See: whatever ‘controversy’ conservative media is mad at getting dislike bombed regardless of quality
@@iceblaster1252 see my above comment lol
@@iceblaster1252 Really replying from beyond the grave, Susan Wojcicki?
@@mariotime7821 literally who?
Found an old church channel hacked and posting “valorant/fortnite hacks” 😅
No honor amongst thieves right?
Immediate red flags:
- Password protected zip file (antivirus detection)
- Download from mediafire or megaupload
- 1 million emojis in title
- terrible english
- shit editing
- "open source" repos that just download a closed source program (just exec a fetch or something)
Also a message to all the "hackers" out there looking for cheats, get good, and I am guaranteeing you that one day, legal action will be taken against individuals who cheat in video games.
exactly
last part was retarded
Great in depth video for something that's a massive problem on TH-cam, yet a small amount of people seems to raise awareness for it. Keep up the great work!
Download-links channel got banned
I pushed all of them behind the scenes to TH-cam, someone in threat intel also did for "Download-Links". I wouldn't be surprised if TH-cam curtail about links for new channels outright.
so is download-midnight
!remindme 13 days
(real)
@@Sashey does that actually work?!
@@charliesretrocomputingno it does not
Google needs to take responsibility, a multi billion corporation should be on this issue with these scam channels. Then again they can’t even keep a browser secure -_-
They focus more on ads
When I use Game Cheats it's either in game commands (Minecraft) or trustworthy mod sources (Sims 4) not YT Tutorials
I probably got myself infected with one of these back then, it's probably still on my pc
i reset my pc every month
@@antagonist4823What about not downloading suspicious .exes? Is this too hard?
@@antagonist4823you sweetie little paranoid
@9Maxus9 Most of these are sneaky and go into your system files, your better off doing a fresh reinstall
10:52 First time I heard Eric laugh so hard at something
Download-Links is Eric's lifelong opp.
daily reminder of the cat ear thing at 100k subs
@@U8A bro what
@@bakookabright? Parasocial behavior is cringe
@@KoDi82I do not think you know the definition of parasocial tho
@@U8AParasocial asf
@@KoDi82 parasocial behavior is awesome tho, iamgine hwo muchc h user engagement it generates!!!!!!!
10:52 eric, why are you making dolphin noises?
XDXDXD
i thought it sounded like a monkey
As you say, the issue is that TH-cam only treat the symptom of the problem (the accounts surfacing the links) and not the root cause (the links themselves). If you can write python code to find the videos and links, I’m not sure why TH-cam can’t do it too.
actually,most of the channels that post that stuff are mostly hacked channels,it happened to my friend once,and fortunately they managed to get it back and delete the video
What do you mean these youtube videos with all caps titles, full of buzzwords and bizarre comments, hack me? Oh, and the ones with emojis. I find those kind of funny
The dead internet theory is getting closer and closer
Years ago on a random fps game a guy on my friends list I had known for maybe a week sent me a link for cheats. I was 13 and thought it would be fun to just kill everyone. It wasn't a virus and my account was never banned. I guess I was very lucky. It got pretty boring after a few days and I've never cheated in another game since. I'm still pretty ashamed of myself haha
Just because everything ran fine doesn't mean he wasn't watching you the whole time lol.
Lucky you. Depending on the download source it can be legit.
@@Cainny It was the family laptop I got to use for like one hour every night. So he wouldn't have gotten much of a show... I'm still surprised that I've never gotten an obvious virus or malware or whatever over the years. I've visited so many sketchy websites and downloaded lots of stuff. Maybe I'm still being watched
@@0owmjapo0 don't look out the window :3
fake tutorials, HACKING!?!? this is some new technology i tell ya...
game cheat tutorials have malware that could hack you
surprise surprise.
Quite ironic too ngl
this has been a thing for atleast 10-15 years, i remember downloading malware from youtube in 2010-2011.
8:49 FREEDOM DIVE REFERENCE!!
osu mentioned
@@jittercatgd real
Make a video on how to setup a VM like yours and what you most use for hunting.
I love these types of videos, keep it up, quick question what was that disassembler?
8:48 FREEDOM DIVE MENTIONED 🔥🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣
SPACED STREAMS ⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️
FINALLY!!!! i was hoping someone would make a video for this problem...
Bro keep going with your videos theyre really interesting im sure one day youll be a big yter
This isn't on topic, but what's your reasoning behind using VMware instead of QEMU+virt-manager with KVM?
8:49 Freedom dive jumpscare!
MY HAND CRAMPED
GAAAAAAAHHHHHH RHYTHM GAME RHYTHM GAME RHYTHM GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!
AAA
I love when you read some weird line or url that doesn't make sense and you just break out laughing. 90% of the stuff you show is way to advanced for my peanut brain but I can't even begin to imagine how much meme stuff you see while digging through all them malwares. 😂😂
i love this guy and al the nerdy commentary he does
Anyone trying to get hacks deserves Malware
10:50 eric has turned into curious george
so that's why i still trust a tutorials from 2000s~late 2010s
(and sort of program crack sites like getintopc)
Shouldn't TH-cam have a department that does what you do in this video to find the scammers?
I remember downloading a „trainer“ for Star Wars Battlefront 2 when I was a child. Thinking back, I wonder what kind of virus I installed back then😂
what are you using to code in this video? I've started learning python and am looking for a reliable engine. Open to suggestions
vscode
what is the tool he used to create sandbox and test the malware?
it looked like it was any (dot) run.
cat ears
this tutorial to spot fake tutorials hacked me
Pinaview, had it once, sent it back to hell, now it is truely gone.
Nice cut-off at the start, -body.
3:20 Demolition Ranch is on top and you will never change my opinion about them
Huh?
yucky
The game I play Hypixel Skyblock has this as a huge problem as well. What's interesting to me about the skyblock ones specifically though is that the people distributing the malware create hundreds of fake youtube channels of real players in the game, using there ign and pfp to make it look more trustworthy.
Tried reporting one of these before, youtube support responded with "We didn't find this to be in violation of our terms of service". Absolute joke.
i dont understand how these videos get past youtube moderation? there should be an automatic filter for videos titled with the words cheat and whatnot
this happened to my old channel, hacker uploaded free cheats and cracked games, lost 6 years of memories
I thought of what might prevent bad actor channels.
Make it so you can't interact on TH-cam in any way for 30 days other then watch videos on a new account.
No comments, no uploads, no way to change your channel banner or name. Nothing!
That does nothing. So they have to wait 30 days so what? They wait 30 days. And in the mean time they make a bunch of other accounts so their 30 day timer will already be in progress and ready to go by the time they are done with the first one.
when will this site take them down since its promoting malware really needs to be terminated for promoting scams like this
Calling it “a little” malware problem is putting it lightly, searching for anything that requires a download even legit things has 99% of it being malware
LETS GO ERIC POSTED i been watcing u wit my breakfast wakin n bakin getting stoned watching ur vids, u motivated me to ditch windows now i have my xbox for gaming and i have manjaro (cuz i didnt want bare arch linux yk) the one w uhh plasma kde desktop. Decided ykw for games and programs that legit wont run in wine im js gonna suck it up and either use a vm if i can or just not use it. Anyways im yapping i love you dude youve been added to the likes in my mind of youtubers like Mental Outlaw, Seytonic, John Hammond, ppl like that. If u dont know those guys check em out its a big compliment youve added some spice to my cybersecurity "news/nerd" channels :3
Edit i forgot to add ur the second british onei watch im becoming a brit my murica is going away oh nooo now i get healthcareee
It was easy to tell what was fake and real by looking at like/dislike ratio, but TH-cam fixed that for us.
If you download that malware how do you delete the malware
Just reinstalled windows. But overall most them are rats and steal your info.
@@Kourzz i wiped my pc
liked the video but subbed when i saw the cat ear thing
learn cpp and make your own cheats but not for online only private so when youre interested whats behind the cheats before downloading malware
Some bait data!?
You should really keep that private.
10:53 Sounded like the joker 😅
Thats why I do my own research and create my own cheats
There have been popping up a lot of roblox executors/exploits many of which are either skidded or remain a mystery when it comes to whether it's malware or not and almost no one is doing a legitimate analysis of the program to confirm or deny such rumours. Could you please check them out?
8:49 osu mentioned
I reported a channel to youtube and got a reply within two days. So youtube does actually look at report requests sometimes.
Babe wake up Eric just dropped
TH-cam are too busy tackling the real menace of vtuber clip channels (official and fanmade) to deal with malware channels.
someone log into bros discord with the token at 8:19 ☠️☠️☠️☠️
Surely nobody is that downbad for cheats to download from that clear virus
I've always found this type of thing sketchy
I've never seen so many people using the same wallpaper before.. Wonder why🤔🤔🤔
✨"...body, my name is Erick"✨
i swear this channel is growing too fast; ERIC HAS A SPONSOR???!!!?!!
Hi Eric! Could you please make a video about mods for beamng drive from sites like modland and worldofmods? Do they contain malicious files inside?
i still cant believe how people fall for that lol
Unicode in a channel's nickname should be automatically sus, ESPECIALLY the down pointing arrow
never use cheats but definately dont use a free one
congrats for your 66,6k subscriber
i used to work at this field, i used bought channels and posted videos of stealers instead of cheats, i made about 5k $ out of it (in half a year)
But look at how much harm you made to others, I'm glad you stopped doing this stuff.
@@InaBuild when you at 16 can make 5k$ its pretty cool tbh
Rule number 1 never use free Cheats
or never use cheats at all. since they're never free and you'll pay with something that you don't even realize
Why do you always say bye with a question mark?
If there is a password on a file, it has a high chance of being a virus
😎THESE FAKE TUTORIALS 😎HACK YOU 😎
Good.
got hacked by this b4 lol
same here
It'd be hella funny if in the video tags it just said "Malware" "Trogen" etc obviously that wouldnt really work but man itd be funny
NOOOOOOO REALLY
These viruses are the equal in terms of organization to North Korea lmao, i lost it with the ''antymalware'' thingy
o hey i’m here early. love your content eric
ANOTHER BANGER
this has been an issue for years jajaja
I love how below this video I got csgo cheats suggested
14:13 what debugging tool is that
Do a video on roblox exploits
hey you should do a video on how to save this VM if it was your actual pc and if it would even be salvageable lol. like for example after you click and donwload all these different .exe, extensions or other files
The fact you have to make a video that these are malware is wild literal idiots fall for it.
1. disable microsoft defender
this part is sussy
Hi
This sounds like a win
no github sourcecode link= no download