How the fack did your System Moved my games to quarantine, Like they have a virus or not? Especially if I tried to upload a new game. I checked, They can't have a virus to just facking Hack Discord accounts or something
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I see 11 games on your profile. 2 are not indexed. None are quarantined. So, what exactly are you talking about?
To anyone else who finds their game in quarantine:
This PSA might be years old, but malware is uploaded to Itch on a daily basis. Not all of those are advertised as a discord scam. And this means, that Itch has to do something against those fake projects. One thing they can do, is to check for suspicous activity and when in doubt to quarantine a project till a human can inspect it. It is a nuiscance when you are a developer, but it is an even bigger nuiscance to get your computer hacked from a downloaded game. Maybe also read here: https://itch.io/t/4120453/game-quarantined-search-or-indexing-problem-read-this
Well, I restrict 2 games about "Michael Myers", because they are in quarantine. And of course my mobile game "2014 Incident - Android Version" in quarantine. That's Why I'm exactly talking about. At least I checked this post and read it. And I don't know what will happen when they Check. Look, If I can bring back my Halloween games, Can you then remove from quarantine? I'll check them on virustotal
I do not think that complaining about the quarantine will make Itch staff work any faster. And Itch staff is whom you would have to talk to. Not to people commenting on a public message board. You do not know why your games are quarantined. Staff will sort it out, eventually. Give them a few weeks.
And for your information: there is malware that will not even get detected on virustotal. I have seen such. Published on hacked accounts. Why do I know it was malware? Because the account it was published on, was a hacked user account among other things. It problaby would have downloaded the actual malware later. And this (the hacked user accounts) is the reason why I welcome a sensitive quarantine system. I only see the hacked accounts with indexed malware that were not quarantined and those are plenty. So if their system catches some false positives, bad luck for those devs. They have to wait till it clears up. The alternative is even more hacked accounts with new malware distributed, if the automatic is not sensitive enough.
This thread is a public service announcement about a scam that was popular three years ago. It might still be popular. Typically they are/were restricted games and a direct link with password protetected file would be advertised on discord. To try the game. For testing or whatever. But this is not the only method by which malware is distributed on Itch.
To quote from the initial post:
itch.io is a self publishing platform open to all, which means anyone can publish a page on our platform at any time.[1] Although we have many automated checks to block or suspend users if suspicious activity is detected
The bold text is what probably hit your games and put them into quarantine, till staff will sort it out.