Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto IV is downloading damaging viruses

May 15, 2008 by Peter Chubb  
Filed under Gaming


It seems that nothing is safe when it comes to cyber criminals, now they are using one of the biggest console games to spread damaging viruses around the globe. John Safa who was a former hacker is now IT security expert and head of security for DriveSentry has warned that gamers who are downloading illegal copies of the game on to their PC and unknown to them are downloaded damaging viruses. Safa has said “People are exploiting the popularity of Grand Theft Auto IV in a way which could bring mayhem to the internet.” He then added “The only thing that many gamers can think of at the moment is Grand Theft Auto IV and hackers are using that interest to try to generate chaos as quickly as they can.”

John Safa is very worried about this problem and has warned anybody to be very careful with some of these links, the thing is some have been designed to look official and as we know they are not. The best thing that any PC owner should do is invest in a good anti-virus program which will hopefully be able to protect you against such attacks. The thing is hackers are getting very resourceful and will not stop at nothing to disrupt the web.

I do have one problem with this piece of news though, people should not be downloading illegal copies of Grand Theft Auto IV or any other game, ok so they want to try and save a few dollars, but in doing so you are damaging the industry as a whole and us gamers who purchase our titles from the store are now having to pay more to solve the problem.

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