Getting locked out of your projects because you unsubscribed is just not tenable.
Whats wrong with Norton? Ive used it for years with no issues.
Well one good thing about Adobe acquiring Macromedia for me was how quickly their Cold Fusion platform went down hill. It was the final straw that allowed us to force some older clients to move their application to .net instead.
I’ve been using some freeware here and there but corel painter just blows photoshop out of the water in every way.
I’ve been manually downloading addons from curse since day one
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I guess it was a good idea to try manual updates, its scary that stuff like this happens. 
Why manually though? There is WoWup and ajour. I’ve heard a lot of good about both, couldn’t run first under linux though meanwhile ajour has native client for it. Runs silky smooth, interface is so good comparing to sh*tty twitch.
In most cases you don’t need to update most addon’s all that often. Things that are related to content sure but things like bars, bags or tooltips tend to be fine for a long while without needing constant updates.
I heard twitch would no longer support add-ons soon so I installed overwolf earlier tonight. A little while after I installed it I went to add my install folder. When I selected my install folder a chrome (untabbed) window flashed and minimized itself instantly. I didn’t notice it at first but within a minute my computer was being bogged down and when I saw a new chrome window with chinese text and a Chinese website name.
When I got rid of the chrome tab I went on to facebook to check some statuses and in my clickable AUTOCOMPLETE from chrome, the Facebook link I ALWAYS use, was not logged in anymore. So I clicked the username section and let chrome autofill my credentials for facebook.
Well, turns out it was faceblook or something and not facebook. Received an email like 15 min later saying someone from china tried accessing my account. Uninstalled overwolf, ran malwarebytes, found 850 malware. Malwarebytes uninstalled itself after I clicked remove all threats and my computer bluescreened right after that. When I restarted I had tons of chinese spyware popups all over my desktop (speaking english not chinese) but all the boxes had Chinese text, and asian women were talking about corruption in the us government and praising xi jinping.
Do NOT INSTALL OVERWOLF
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I’ve been using a combo of Affinity Photo + Affinity Designer for print and Sketch for vector UI stuff. Does everything I need as well or better than Adobe stuff and I actually get to keep them.
Oh man ColdFusion. I remember seeing that in a lot of places but never used it because I hadn’t yet gotten into backend web dev. My intro to that world was Ruby on Rails.
Odd, I have been running it for almost two weeks without a single issue. They are not even running ads right now in the ads stream.
Reformat your hard drive. If you aren’t trolling, I doubt one virus scan will clean everything. if the screw up went that deep it probably won’t catch everything.
In fact, buy a new hard drive and throw the old one in the fire place just to be safe.
It could be a coincidence since I browse a lot of nasty jav/henti/asian adult sites, as well as being on a few dozen chinese premium dating sites. But I never had any of this occur until hours ago, after installing overwolf. I wonder if I had a trojan and overwolf just opened the backdkor
I’m posting on my phone because my computer is unusable but I will most likely be reformatting or just tossing my hard drives in the microwave
LOL 
Yeah, that is far more likely to be the cause. I would suggest running your browser in a “private” mode with some kind of no script add to stop JS from executing without your permission.
The updated EULA has nothing to do with Overwolf. And the URL you’re sent to is your own account page, this happens when you haven’t agreed to the new agreement when you launch the Battlenet App.
Side note, personally I’d avoid Overwolf anyway. Just my preference.
I wont even go that far. They didn’t get malware from Overwolf lol. It’s ads aren’t even up right now for wow.
But don’t you find it odd that this happened immediately after installing it? I mean I do believe that it ‘can’ be unrelated, but for it to just start happening so quickly is very strange.
Same for me. Logged on, got sent to the same site. I know that sort of thing generally happens when a new expansion comes out but it usually happens the first time you log onto the game after the expansion launch where you have to agree to their current EULA. I naturally assumed that’s what it was.
(PS, I don’t have Overwolf installed so I suspect thats purely coincidental for the OP.)
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Sure but as you have already admitted to visiting sources far more likely to be the source, I can’t discount that. It might have just be the time the malware decided to kick off. I mean if I launch chrome and suddenly windows kicks off the updaters, does that mean chrome is responsible for triggering the updater or was it just a matter of chance?
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