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Hiya folks. I didn't see a topic on this, so I thought I would start one. Many of you may already know. I'm also a little late to the party (news was broken on Monday by Cisco Talos). If you downloaded version 5.33 of CCleaner recently, you also downloaded a multi-stage payload on top of it. It looks like it was a watering hole attack, so it's unlikely the payload will DO anything to you (they were supposedly targeting big tech giants, including Cisco themselves), but you still don't want a mysterious malware backdoor on your PC. Cisco recommends you not only uninstall CCleaner, but also re-image your machine (or just restore to a date prior to August 15th). If you really want to keep CCleaner, then update to 5.35 immediately. Thank god I didn't install that update (still on 5.23). More info: http://blog.talosintelligence.com/2017/09/avast-distributes-malware.html http://blog.talosintelligence.com/2017/09/ccleaner-c2-concern.html http://www.techrepublic.com/article/ccleaner-hackers-attacked-microsoft-intel-cisco-and-other-tech-giants/ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3225407/security/ccleaner-downloads-infected-malware.html

The PUBG situation right now is very interesting to me and even though I don't actively play or follow the game, I have been following the most recent debacle with Epic Games and Fortnite. PUBG has been pretty solidly in the spotlight for the past half a year roughly and it has even grown to become the most popular game on Steam, beating out giants such as Dota and CSGO. That's a very good thing for the game. Unfortunately it's also been in the spotlight with some more mixed and even negative press over the months, most notably the whole situation with PlayerUnknown making a fool of himself in a public chatroom, the stream-sniping ban controversy, the implementation of loot crates with paid keys during early access development and now finally with the POTENTIAL lawsuit against Epic Games. There's a lot to discuss regarding these things if you choose to care about it and I wouldn't blame you if would rather just shrug and go about your day. As for my self I am a relentless and thirsty drama-whore, so I'll dig into it in hopes of finding the juicy bits. So far my conclusion has been that PUBG is probably a fairly solid game and easily the best of the several different battle royale games we've seen since the inception of the original mod in Arma 2. I would probably enjoy playing PUBG with friends quite honestly. Unfortunately I have also concluded that PlayerUnknown is an arrogant prick who has no reservations about shitting on his fanbase and who is willing to go back on his word for the sake of a quick cashgrab (Loot crates in early access after an explicit promise that they wouldn't make it into the game until it had been fully released). Furthermore we're now at a tipping point where PlayerUnknown and his team are considering legal action over a fucking videogame "genre" that they have questionable legal rights to anyway. People are seriously talking about whether making a genre of videogames intellectual property is OK or not. Absolutely fucking ridiculous if you ask me.

Today's article is on Loadout, the Richard Nixon of shooters. I still love Loadout and it was the best game of it's time back when it first came out, shame what ended up happening to it. If only they'd used the annoying-but-lucrative crate system and kept it cosmetic only, we might still have one of the best arena shooters on Steam. I've actually been considering running an "event" for SPUFers to meet up and play some rounds of Loadout together. It's still just sitting there, even if it's deader than a doorknob shaped like a disco ball, we could have a private match if enough people were willing. (In other news, new SPUF of Legend on the recent 12v12 glitch in Overwatch and how Blizzard should make it an official game mode)

There was a mandatory IT today meeting to unveil a new web app and offer training for it. When they asked us to login, about the third of people there got a blank page. Someone asked "are there browser compatibility issues with this?" The response: "Oh no, it works fine with everything. It's just that some things don't display properly with Internet Explorer, and sometimes pages don't display at all if you use Firefox or its offshots. But we've seen very few errors when you load it in Chrome." (Once I finally saw it the usability and general design of the site were shit too.)