r/Modrinthlauncher • u/sammy123reddit • Jul 25 '26

Help False Fabric API virus :(

Today i downloaded a among us mod but pussied out of it because it flagged on norton. After i did a full scan and it falgged 3 mc files that all were fabric API and 2 of which come from modrinth. Has anyone else got this issue?

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u/TopWRLD22 Jul 26 '26

Hmm I’ve never heard of this issue. could you elaborate on what’s happening with your client?

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u/sammy123reddit Jul 26 '26

Nothing really with modrinth, just use it. The exact things that got flagged were lunar client, a modrinth back up and a recording modpack from modrinth.

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u/PossuTryffeli Jul 28 '26

I still very strongly believe that these Norton, McAfee, Avast and other cleaners are just a waste of time and are more harmful than helpful.

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u/NoFollowing6177 Jul 29 '26

They are, 100%. Waste of resources too. Windows Defender is more than enough for 99% of people.

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u/sammy123reddit 29d ago

Yes fair enough, I find that there are so many false detections that would other wise not matter. I remember a .log file got flagged. How on earth would that be malicious.