Please only EXPERTS WHO HAVE PROFESSIONAL OR EXPERIENCE WITH IT ANSWER: Please do not judge me, I have not yet had any viruses and therefore have no experience with them. Now to my question: I created a minecraft skin at The skindex and then downloaded it to my laptop. Now I'm afraid that there's a virus on it because the site doesn't look serious to me. If I had downloaded viruses onto my PC, I selected and used the skin in minecraft. Can there be a virus in my minecraft app? Can the skindex now know my password for fortnite, rocket league etc? If I were to buy a new PC now and there were viruses in minecraft, would I also have these viruses on the new PC? As I said, sounds stupid, but would like to hear the opinion of an EXPERT.
Nowadays there's no known exploit that allows you to send a virus in a png (mc skins are in ner png). The last one was a few years ago.
Skindex is a trustworthy site. You do not have to worry. If you want to be sure you can download an antivirus program and do a scan
So I'm not an expert on viruses, but I always download skins from Skindex because it's one of the best and safest sites for Minecraft skins. Up until now I have never had a virus and I haven't heard of anyone that can be downloaded from Skindex. Hope I could help you!
Code would have to be executed per se. A pure download does not pose a risk. If Minecraft does not have a gap, it is not a problem - but since applications often have unknown gaps, it can certainly happen that an application is manipulated in this way.
To be on the safe side, you could run a scan:
https://www.f-secure.com/de/home/free-tools/online-scanner
Per se, I consider the risk in your case to be low, even if it can never be ruled out 100%.
There used to be malware hidden in skins.
In the meantime, however, no longer (or would not have any effect on current systems), if necessary you can check the skin for malware with VirusTotal.
You can also check your system for malware with F-Secure, Malwarebytes or Windows Defender (don't worry, if there are just some threats like "PUA", "PUP" and "Adware"), inexperienced users tend to catch something like that a), you should get messages like "You Are Nailed, Buy A New Computer This Is A Piece of Sh * t", "You have maxed your internet usage for a lifetime" or "Your a ** got glued", then you could have this type of malware.
But I also think I downloaded Skins Skins once, since the site is among the top 10000 most visited websites and is also older, there will be nothing there.
How do you mean that code will be executed? If you think a second page opened… No, it didn't
Where do you get this news?
, didn't have this malware yet, but I guess windows that look similar to the known error messages.
What is a png? And what do you mean by allowed? Is something checked, but by whom
Thanks
What?
checked? Are you stupid
The link from halloihcbins covers exactly that topic. You can also compare that to SQL Injections… The approach is very similar.
Images, skins, etc. Are not executable files per se - so they are normally harmless. However, it often happened that there were long undiscovered gaps in various software - browsers, operating systems, tools, games - through which one could manage with hidden executable code to start smaller commands via the process of the respective software and thus reload further malicious code. Especially if the software has admin rights, then the whole OS can be hijacked - one of the reasons why you don't normally work as an admin on the PC, as otherwise all processes during the activity can have admin rights! Or you can assign individual services to different users on servers… In the worst-case scenario, only what the user in question has access to would be compromised.
But not anymore
You can never be 100% sure. Nothing has been known for a long time, but there have often been gaps that have remained undiscovered for a long time…
The IT security perspective… ^^
