someone just asked me to help them out, claimed MC kept crashing and they think there's an issue with their .minecraft folder. obviously the best and only solution is to back up your saves folder, delete the .minecraft folder, and run the launcher again to download a fresh copy of vanilla minecraft, right?
they insisted that they needed MY .minecraft folder to test something, and not only is it against policy to distribute or share the .jar file, anyone who has their password remembered has it saved as an encrypted file (lastlogin i think, according to someone). doesn't take much to figure out that they were likely going to decrypt that or use the entire, new folder to log in.
is that actually possible? it's the only reason i could think of. when i didn't bite right away they logged out of the server and blocked me on skype.
Possible that theirs some kind of Skype hack / exploit that would allow a user to upload and run a payload which would then give control of your PC which is more valuable than your MC account.
You have to be wary of requests to connect to or allow access to your PC because theirs some hack going around thats ransomware that gives you something like 72 hours to pay up two bitcoinc (something like £600 from what I have been told) otherwise your entire PC files get deleted, the last alert I had from Action Fraud website was about ransomeware.
Forgot to mention that the whole drive is encrypted and the ransomware needs the key to unlock it
Are you (and I hope you are) running a firewall? and when I say firewall I don't mean the windows built in one...
You clearly misread the op. He was being asked to give a file folder. Not access to his computer.
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"Every time a bat gets killed, a miner falls in a pit of lava while carrying half a stack of diamonds."
Subject line said "...sent your minecraft folder via filesharing or skype." I think that's where Angry_Dad got that bit from.
To the OP: As Nancy Reagan once advised, "Just Say No."
I know, he just misinterpreted the op. And yes, I do agree. Anything that seems a little weird and you are unsure of. I would just simply avoid it and ignore that person.
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"Every time a bat gets killed, a miner falls in a pit of lava while carrying half a stack of diamonds."
they insisted that they needed MY .minecraft folder to test something, and not only is it against policy to distribute or share the .jar file, anyone who has their password remembered has it saved as an encrypted file (lastlogin i think, according to someone). doesn't take much to figure out that they were likely going to decrypt that or use the entire, new folder to log in.
is that actually possible? it's the only reason i could think of. when i didn't bite right away they logged out of the server and blocked me on skype.
You clearly misread the op. He was being asked to give a file folder. Not access to his computer.
"Every time a bat gets killed, a miner falls in a pit of lava while carrying half a stack of diamonds."
Subject line said "...sent your minecraft folder via filesharing or skype." I think that's where Angry_Dad got that bit from.
To the OP: As Nancy Reagan once advised, "Just Say No."
I know, he just misinterpreted the op. And yes, I do agree. Anything that seems a little weird and you are unsure of. I would just simply avoid it and ignore that person.
"Every time a bat gets killed, a miner falls in a pit of lava while carrying half a stack of diamonds."