Recently many people on the forums have been complaining that Avast! antivirus program has been detecting malicious links in the Minecraft Launcher. This is nothing to worry about. This problem is a false-positive error and will be fixed soon. As an assurance, one person deconstructed the "malicious" image, and it turns out to be a GIF image:
I just have disassembled the file using ida free. Nothing that looks pretty shell-code-like or malicious. Just the 'GIF89a'-Magic number and some bytes that look like the GIF-header. Has many 0-bytes in it, what shellcode typically avoids. And 35 bytes are too few for writing something malicius. Seems to be either false-positive or free download manager didn't download the whole file.
This has been asked tons - but it's simply that it's a tiny image that QuantServe uses (which is too small to have any malicious code in) linked to the Tumblr page that the Minecraft Launcher uses.
False-positive.
So, once you have read this, please tell everyone else that this is just a false alarm, until further notice.
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Free + Crabs + Ability to trample/suffocate opponents in Cortex Command = Free Bombs.
Or here:
Plus reassurance from other users:
So, once you have read this, please tell everyone else that this is just a false alarm, until further notice.
Free + Crabs + Ability to trample/suffocate opponents in Cortex Command = Free Bombs.
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we don't need more threads about the same issue