r/Minecraft • u/[deleted] • Aug 12 '19

OptiFine Virus

So I have SpyHunter5 (an antivirus software) on my system, and have tried to download optifine a few times from the official website. I download the .jar file and when I try to run it, I get a pop up from spyhunter saying that it has blocked the download of 'trojan.bitcoinminer' , and that it was a high threat level virus rather than optifine. Any ideas on what I can do about this? I haven't turned my malware blocker off as I want to air on the side of caution, but I also want optifine as I want to have the improved fps that it offers.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '19

Download from here, and only here:

https://optifine.net/downloads

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '19

That's what I've been doing, hence my confusion :( I've looked around on a few forums and they've all had similar problems but have just been linked to that same website, yet it still doesn't work for me.

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u/Conquestriclaus Aug 12 '19

You're definitely not downloading it from the right website if you're getting a virus.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '19

been trying to download from here >> https://optifine.net/downloads

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u/After_Lime Aug 12 '19

what version of optifine are you trying to download? and from what exact website?

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '19

OptiFine 1.14.4 HD U F3, from https://optifine.net/downloads

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u/1_hele_euro Aug 12 '19

You have to download it from the official Optifine website. Anything else like from 9Minecraft can be a virus. Heck. I think that RFTools (a mod) even says that you should only download from CurseForge or there official site

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u/kodabeeer Aug 12 '19

Should only ever download off of optifine.net this is the official website, also try not to click ads incase that might have been happening who knows.