Help With Unknown Script

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#1

Hey eveyone,

I am working on bug fixes for a game at the moment, and we have this text printing constantly while the game is running:
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Does anyone know what to do about this?
I don’t think it’s some sort of backdoor, I’ve used some custom plugins to search for scripts in hidden services but I can’t find anything out of the ordinary, and no matter what we do we can’t get this to stop printing now.

I’ve looked at other threads but they all say it either “went away on its own” or it was an engine bug.

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#2

can you check all the linksources of the scripts in your game or studio?
another thing is
does this happen in public servers
also make sure to disable (not delete) your plugin and test again
i had some problem with plugins without realising and it was really painful so try that

#3

Press Ctrl + Shift + F and search for print("Success").

#4

thats also another thing you can do but if you realise its by studio not server or client
(also how do you do the message type)

#5

Yes this gets printed in public servers and in studio, appears to have a copy on the server as well as any client. (where the x2 comes from)

If you have any advice on how to search the linkedsources that would be great, as I can’t seem to print the linkedsource value.

#6

Already attempted, there isn’t a single script in the game with print(“Success”) or print(“loop”)

#7

What plugins do you have then?

#8

Nothing except a custom one I made for printing all scripts in the game.

#9

to search linkedsources just do this

for i,v in pairs(game:GetDescendants()) do
if v:IsA("Script") or v:IsA("LocalScript") then
print(string.len(v.LinkedSource))
end
end

Btw use this on the command bar not in a script
also i used length so it doesnt spam random things

#10

Just prints “0” 319 times
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edit:
I’ll try running it in-game

edit2:
in-game yields same results, but less prints

#11

then no script uses linkedsource so its something else
another question
does any other game of yours have this issue?

#12

Nope, just this and a cloned development copy of it.

#13

would you mind sending the game file so i can check it?
because really i dont know whats included in the game

#14

Afraid not, as it is a full game and I’m not to share the game files with anyone outside the team create.

And before anyone mentions the team create, I’ve made sure none of our other scripters have plugins, and even then I would think that what one plugin could hide another plugin could find.

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#15

actually i thought of something use the same method

he said but use in it the word require(
and tell me if anything pops up that has a number like this
require(8435733458) (i typed random numbers btw)

#16

okay understood i thought it was a copied place of some sort because you said this

#17

This did it, found two lines hidden in the bottom of a script that we assumed to be trusted.

#18

can you go check the model source of it in case it has anything related and check in the scripts of it with

this way

this doesn’t seem like a virus so it should be checked out
and really dont assume anything that uses require with models if you dont check it out
it can be anything without you knowing

#19

It was an api system one of our devs made to connect to his website (for bans/admin/etc.)

Turns out he left some prints in. Thank you for helping with that.

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#20

no problem i was glad to help just keep in notice this