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At minimum I would like Maltiez removed from the developement team so that there is not even a shred of a possibility of this happening again. I do not understand what Maltiez is contributing that is so essential to keeping them on the team after doubling down on distributing malware.

Where is the justice for players and modders who were falsely targeted? What is stopping Maltiez from retaliating again?

Ultimately it will be forked or independently remade since Maltiez cannot be trusted given they had removed and re-added their malware. Also keep in mind in addition to Config, overhaul and PML, Maltiez admitted they also contain the malware. It is in your best interest to wait until those mods have been rebuilt, if not for the malware, but because there are reports of performance issues

If you want to go further: Maltiez actually went to Anego and suggested an "anticheat". Ultimately this was not feasable for Anego and it was up to server hosts to manage their servers, whitelist, ban bad actors, etc. Then Maltiez added a malware to their mods after being told no. According to Maltiez themself, the malware was successful and the cheat mod maker had given up and discontinued their mod. So then why keep the malware in? Why create a blacklist after other modmakers contacted Maltiez after figuring out their mods were causing issues instead of removing the malware? Then Maltiez started doubling down and justifying themself. There is a reason vigilante behavior is not good, because ultimately taking down the "bad guys" became more important that protecting the victims

Maltiez distributed a malware through VS's mod database to thousands of users with malicious intent to target a specific group with little concern for any victims caught in the crossfire. Just because the malware itself was tame, does not downplay the huge liability issues this created for VS If VS cannot follow their own policies and terms of service, then we deserve the shitstorm that comes after.

For the longest time the server I hosted for myself and a friend, I would randomly crash every 30 min to 4 hours. Coincidentally, their malware does exactly that so now I'm left wondering if they were the cause.

Unfortunately innocent people are getting affected which is how we learned about this in the first place. The malware targeting was broad enough to affect other mods that had the misfortune of fulfilling the conditions Now said malware distributor is a developer for the game

Some updates for those out of the loop and apologies for reddit links. Breakdown of how the code works: code explanation Screenshot link of Maltiez removing the malware and adding it back in: screenshot Others have reported Maltiez's other mods contain the same code