cthunsthrall Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 After the last stable update I can no longer log in. When I manually input the API key, it appears to work, my avatar and username appear randomly after like 5 minutes. But trying any download or even trying a "check for updates" on a single mod does not work and returns a notification "API Key validation timed out." When I click retry, nothing happens. When I quit out of vortex and start back up, I'm logged out. Tried on my other computer, tried on a VPN, no luck. I don't know if it's network related because I was able to upload updates to my mod without any problems. By the way, this is unrelated but a file I uploaded to the nexus somehow turned into a trojan. I know that sounds bizarre. I uploaded the archive and users told me it was quarantined by windows defender as a trojan script. I thought that's absurd and they should get a new antivirus. But later I checked the file myself. The one I have on my hard drive was fine (this is the SAME exact archive file I uploaded) according to windows defender and malwarebytes. But I tried downloading the file off nexus and checking THAT one and windows defender reported it as a virus. Even though virustotal said it was fine. So maybe virustotal received the file I actually uploaded, but users received some other file that was corrupted or perhaps actually viral. I don't know. All I know is I spent a couple hours running a complete scan of my entire system with malwarebytes and it found nothing. The original file was perfectly normal. Only the file I downloaded from the nexus reported as a trojan. Anyway i'm not complaining, just letting you know so someone can look into this in the unlikely event your CDN is actually compromised or something. As for the vortex API key validation not working, that's a bigger problem. It gives me the impression I'm going to need to uninstall the mod manager, which would ruin my entire mod setup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zanderat Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 Has to be on your end. I can log in just fine. Also, just because a anti-virus identified a file a a problem, doesn't mean that it is. Mine tried to quarantine TexGen the last time I ran it. Download the file yourself and manually check it to see it actually changed. I bet it hasn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cthunsthrall Posted April 23, 2020 Author Share Posted April 23, 2020 Okay nevermind about the main API key thing. I'm an idiot. I have been running a malwarebytes complete scan for hours trying to see if I actually have a virus (I have its active protection on 24/7 so it would be absurd for this workstation to be infected, but you never know), and found nothing on my NVMe drives, but now I'm checking all my RAID volumes of spinner drives which is gonna take days probably. So it turns out that vortex's online aspects are somehow blocked or firewalled by malwarebytes, at least for me, and at least while a scan is actively running. So after pausing the scan it works fine again. However I'm still pretty concerned about this trojan thing. I reuploaded the file and that one is fine. All the other files I uploaded the same day (both before and after) are also fine according to malwarebytes and windows defender. It was just the main 4K file that was allegedly a trojan. But my original file was fine and virustotal said the uploaded one was fine too. Yet multiple people downloaded that file and had the same report. I can't remember the exact name of the trojan but if you look in the comments of my dirt cliffs mod, it's in there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cthunsthrall Posted April 23, 2020 Author Share Posted April 23, 2020 I did download the file and compare it with the original I uploaded, and my original post says that I did. I've since deleted the original file from both my computer and the nexus, in the event it actually is a virus. So I can't check the hash or anything. Wish I thought of that earlier. Unfortunately I was too busy trying to respond to the people complaining that my mod is a virus lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zanderat Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 It's a flase flag. Did you actually download it yourself to check to see if it was the same as the one your drive? BTW, your dirt cliffs mod is great. I will try a download right now and report back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zanderat Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 dp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zanderat Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 OK, I downloaded it and installed /enable/deployed via Vortex. No anti-virus warning. Inspecting the contents of my download, it all meshes and textures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zanderat Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 Forgot ask. At what point did people get the warning? When downloading, installing, or running the game? Pretty sure that there is no issue here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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