Script was able to duplicate itself

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So basically, I started noticing weird scripts that had names like “Debounce” or “Fix” or “MeshHandler” or “weld” or other names similar to what I listed. I’ve already deleted it, so I don’t have the exact script. However, I remember that everything in the script was a comment (It took a super long time to scroll right, but I couldn’t find any script hiding. So anyways, the only thing that wasn’t a comment was the following line:

local RobloxStudioAntiVirus = enabled

That’s it. I scrolled as far as possible but couldn’t find anything else. But I still decided to try to delete all the scripts, but when I attempted to do that, after running the game, it would appear in the same places again. Then, I decided to turn off all plugins. (I double checked, I didn’t miss any plugin). It would still reappear after I deleted it. Then, I realized there was one of those scripts in another place I never checked. And when I deleted all the scripts (including the one I didn’t see earlier) It would stop duplicating. Did anyone else have this happen to them?

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This is a common type of “virus” people develop in hopes of lagging up the game.

The idea is that each script manifests into every single descendant of workspace (possibly other data models as well.)

It doesn’t matter where the script is placed, it’ll still duplicate itself into everything in your game.

Based on the code though, it seems harmless.

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