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Riigged
It's quite easy to glance over malicious/blackhat code in clients containing hundreds of folders and thousands of files, and programs (like this one) that have dozens of applications and other files that it can be put into, its not often that viruses/phishers are posted, so that just makes it a hundred times easier to glance right over something, especially when the blackhat code looks exactly like legitimate code when you are skipping through everything at the rate you do it at when you have to deal with, like I said, as many files as it could be. Like, that one client, the bert one or whatever, they added a line of code that basically PM'd a bot your info or was that false? Idk, anyways, that code prob looked exactly like any other line of code you could have seen, and would have just assumed it was code relating to the PM system when you glance right past it, obviously seeing the Email and Password part would be a red flag, but its way easier than u think to miss it. Very easy to not miss it when you are the one doing a 2nd check after someone has already brought it up about something fishy being in the client/program because then you actually read from top to bottom left to right instead of just simply top to bottom which is what most people who scan clients do, which is why whenever a virus is posted, its almost always approved, I think only 1 person tried to upload a virus and i deleted it and reported person during time of staff, and it was from simply putting it in virus scanner myself because he posted fake virus scans. This happens a lot in other sections too Im sure, the mods go 40 legit approvals in a row and then obviously let their guard down each more and more after every approval and then slipping up. All we can do is apologize and help the people affected, no reason to hate on the mods for something that can happen to you just as easily as the next person. Don't bother giving me all that "but I'm different" talk, every single person who applied for minion ever since MPGH was born, said that in their application, look what happens.
And no, Ahlwong would never claim he found out himself if it wasn't him, he is a super chill guy, but then again its not like they struck gold so who cares about credits.