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Hackers are infecting Call of Duty players with a self-spreading malware | TechCrunch

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Activision said it brought the 2009-released game offline while it investigates "an issue."

Hackers are infecting Call of Duty players with a self-spreading malware | TechCrunch

Activision said it brought the 2009-released game offline while it investigates "an issue."

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getBoolean

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is this the one that had the malware patched in the fan servers they shutdown?

ampersandrew

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I don't think Modern Warfare 2 ever had fan servers. It's the one that infamously had a "boycott" over the lack of dedicated servers (which is different than private servers) because it was all peer to peer multiplayer.

PrinzKasper

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MW2 had many iterations of fan servers. It started with alterIWnet, and ended with IW4X, which was recently shut down by Activision with a cease and desist. Fan modded versions of the game with dedicated servers and a server browser, with known security vulnerabilities like this one already patched out. Thanks to Activision, there's now no way to safely play this game anymore.

ampersandrew

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Oh, that's cool. Cool that the alternate networks ever existed, I mean. Not cool that they got shut down, but this is from the same people who shut down vanilla WoW to sell it back to you again.

WowMyNameIsUnique

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Seems like it, yep. RIP IW4X. I didn't even know it existed!