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Regarding the virus report on my submission

A topic by Abo_Shanab created Nov 25, 2025 Views: 381 Replies: 5
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Hello,

I saw the report claiming that my game contains the "raccoon trojan".  

I want to clarify that I did NOT include any virus intentionally.

My PC might be causing corrupted exports because I also get “corrupt header” errors when exporting or running games locally, even outside Godot. This means my system may be damaged or infected without my knowledge.

I sincerely apologize for any inconvenience.  

I have removed the submission to avoid risk.  

If anyone has advice on how to clean my system or avoid this issue in future exports, I would appreciate it.

Thank you.

Submitted (4 edits)

Hello, first off I appreciate the effort you're going through to fix the issue. As the individual that reported the virus I'd like to provide more context, I now believe this user is not behaving with completely ill intentions and would like to assist where I can.

Your game you made for this jam: "Endless Falling" is the one with a trojan named "Raccoon", here is the windows security output. This is a trojan focused on stealing data.

However the second game you submitted: "double x jump", the one made far in advance and does not abide by any of the jams rules, has a completely different virus called the Expiro virus. This is a trojan focused on infecting files.

I now firmly believe that despite your somewhat dishonest behavior submitting a game to this jam that was not made for it, that you are not spreading these files intentionally. I am not an expert in cybersecurity so I can't give great advice on how to remove these viruses other than a full factory reset of your PC, but I can confirm your computer is terribly contaminated.

In the future, exercise extreme caution in what files you download and where you get them. And be sure to read the rules of the jams you participate in, you have submitted "double x jump" to a staggering number of jams, breaking the rules in pretty much all of them.


Ok 👌

Submitted

I got both viruses from this single project. One in the game file, other in the console file. I was able to stop them and remove them from the pc, but the Windows could not start properly, and as one of the unusable files was explorer.exe. I decided I had to format and rei stall system. Please try to run some defense, and share as web app if you can. I risked the download and even thou I ran in sandbox, it was still careless of me.

Hey! Is there anywhere I could message you? I would just have a few questions about the virus.

Submitted (1 edit)

Sure, but I don't have much more info :)

Just unleashed defender on it from other installation and it somewhat killed  it

Here in this discussion or discord or other something?

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