ah, thanks for the clarification. I was super nervous
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To test how well these work a made a dummy virus (virus that doesn’t do anything but uses an advanced viruses methods of injections) and I was able to bypass the anti viruses with a few tweaks to the code. Solution: Be smart and don’t download free models that you can’t verify yourself.
noice dude i can finally clean the viruses i got while changing my skybox. haha
It’s disappointing that we now have the fear of having our games infected if we do choose to use free models. I rarely use them anymore because I am more than capable of putting my own efforts forward towards creating my own assets, but thanks for advising me and educating us on how we can remove these kinds of viruses.
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Technically they are not “viruses”. However It is possible that someone can write annoying code.
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Viruses are just the common name for these annoyances.
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Although I do believe such name can mislead users into think they’re real viruses. A proper name would be backdoor / game backdoor / etc.
According to most definitions of virus a Roblox virus is a virus in terms of Roblox. They don’t replicate themselves but neither do many computer viruses. Backdoor is actually not an accurate term for most of them, as a backdoor is just something that many of them can create.
A definition of a computer virus (first hit on Google):
A computer virus is a malicious software program loaded onto a user’s computer without the user’s knowledge and performs malicious actions.
And if you replace computer with Roblox or Roblox game:
A Roblox virus is a malicious software program loaded onto a user’s Roblox game without the user’s knowledge and performs malicious actions.
I think term is fine. I agree it should be emphasized that it can’t actually affect anything outside the game, though naming it slightly inaccurately doesn’t seem worth it IMO.
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You can easily determine if a plugin is safe. You dont need an administrator to point it out for you.
You can check the source:
game:GetObjects("rbxassetid://IDHERE")[1].Parent=workspace
If you find anything sus, the plugin is malicious.
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You forgot to add about server sides.
If you didn’t know server sides are a GUI that gives you basically an ingame command bar that can do anything from the server.
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Would it be better to open a new window of studio put free models in a empty baseplate and then run this in Studio’s Command Bar if you think the model is bit suspicious?
for i,v in pairs(workspace:GetDescendants()) do
if v:IsA("Script") then -- you can also add v.Name ~= "SomeExcludedScript" to exclude script
v:Destroy()
end
end
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Viruses are mostly stealthy and the virus named “Vaccine” is something that tries to think you it prevents you from viruses but it doesn’t for some, they make and add snaps & duplicate any other welds.
Also this is not happening now at many times this happens possibly later, here are also skincolor viruses that are very unknown and makes messages on screenguis.
Good job! This would really help new developers.
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This gave me throwbacks of 10 yo me using A LOT of free models and then getting scared when I see ad pop-ups or worse yet… FIRE!!! I remember I’d freak out thinking I’m going to get a virus in my computer and my account hacked to the point where I even ended up closing down the place in question 
This would have been very helpful back then! Thank you internet explore- I mean Monsieur CanadianCrepe
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Yeah for some reason some YouTubers spread a rumor about how Free Model viruses were actually trojans, me not being experienced at developing at that time (and being gullible) believed that, but now I know better xD.
Anyway, I’m happy this helped you (or would’ve anyway)!
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Very helpful information! But one myth I’ve been hearing about is that some viruses could get your account or game taken down because they could add disturbing stuff. Is that true?
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Depends on what you’re talking about, if something were to happen and you publish your game publicly, then yeah it would be. But if you have a private game that only you can see, you can put whatever the heck you want in it as long as you’re not sharing it with others/publicly.
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I love how Ro-Defender is a free plugin that protects you from free plugins XD
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Thank you for this plugin, i should inform my friend about this because he puts free models and i found out it has a virus and my roblox studio got infected
Hi, didn’t make these plugins. Only sharing them and providing information about them, let me know if your friend got rid of the virus.
All of your games were infected definitely means you either put the same model which has a virus in the game or it’s because of a plugin. Uninstall or delete all plugins you don’t know of, and use these plugins. It’s a simple process and it can be really helpful. Good luck!
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