For almost three years now, I’ve had a virus from a plugin stuck on my main Roblox account in Roblox Studio. At the time when this happened, I downloaded a weather plugin that was supposed to generate random weather cycles or something but it ended up being a virus. I immediately removed the plugin when I found out it was a virus but ever since I removed it, the virus has still been active whenever I load a game on that account.
The problem is that when I load a game in Studio, it creates these giant clouds and tornados in the air with particles everywhere (even when I’m not in play mode) and messages keep popping up on the screen as well as other random things automatically being added to the workspace. Deleting them does nothing as they rapidly add themselves again.
Because of this virus, for the past three years I’ve just been using my alt account to develop games and then publishing them to my group which my main account owns but it would be nice if anyone could give me a solution as to how I can fix this (if it’s possible) because I would like to be able to use my main account in Studio again.
Well it’s been quite a while since it happened but I’m pretty sure that I did delete the plugin, I’m sure I remember doing it. I just had a look at the plugins on the account this happened on and there is one called “[ Content Deleted ]” made by an account that has been terminated but I’m not sure if it’s that because it has a lot of favourites and a pretty good like to dislike ratio. If it is the infected plugin though, when I click the three dots, the only option is to report the plugin and there is no option allowing me to remove it from my inventory.
I suggest looking at the files of your installed plugins.
From the Plugins tab in Studio, choose Plugins Folder (at the very left) and check whether all of the files there (if any) are what they should be.
Those are locally/manually installed plugins and Plugins Admin does not manage these.
Then go up one level and go in the folder that’s named after your user ID. Each of the folders in there (except for 0) correspond to one installed plugin. In each of them, check whether the plugin in the highest-numbered folder is safe and corresponds to anything you’ve installed.
Those are plugins installed from the Marketplace.
Is it TTP’s weather plugin? If so, I thought that didn’t work anyways?
What I’d advise you to do is sign into Studio on your main account, go into the Plugins tab > Manage Plugins and uninstall every plugin you have installed.
Then, don’t just reinstall every single plugin you have, just install plugins if you run into a situation where you need them. You should also remove all plugins from your inventory.
Local Plugins would also affect the alternative account, so it can’t be that, due to it being stored in %LocalAppData%\Roblox\Plugins and not being stored in a user ID directory.
Thank you! It wasn’t TTP’s weather plugin but I did end up finding the one it was. I never thought I still had it installed because it didn’t show up in my Roblox inventory, only in the plugins manager. Anyway, it’s all fixed now!