Over 50 thousand people picked up the virus from the official website of Minecraft

Production Popular Anti-Virus Company Avast Software Analyzed the data and came to the conclusion that more than 50 thousand users Minecraft She picked up on their cars a servant infection that formats hard drives and removes system programs with the backup data.

It is unpleasant in itself, but even more unpleasant that malicious code was built into the skins that players downloaded from the site Minecraft. And the code was very simple and reminded of viruses that can be found on sites that supply beginner “Kulkhazker” instructions, how to write their own nasty with the help of “notepad”.

Avast already announced the problem Mojang, And that works to correct the vulnerability. It is not clear only how such a nuisance was able to get to the official website Minecraft.