@JohnFromGWN said in Real Dangers of OpenIV OIV Files:

I hope new users will realize this and avoid OIV automatic installers at all costs.

There's no reason to create undue FUD. For starters, in general, everything which can install, can uinstall.

Furthermore. .OIV is pretty harmless. It's essentially just a zip file, and contains, next to a content folder, an assembly.xml file, with commands like:

<archive path="update\update.rpf" createIfNotExist="True" type="RPF7">
<delete>common\data\dlclist.xml</delete>
<delete>common\data\gameconfig.xml</delete>
<add source="dlclist.xml">common\data\dlclist.xml</add>
<add source="gameconfig.xml">common\data\gameconfig.xml</add>

So, yes, while it can delete stuff, only so in an opened .rpf; and, more importantly, the whole process is chrooted, as we say in the UNIX world (jailed, so as to not have access to the parent directory it's located in; the GTA V base directy is effectively treated as root). So, . OIV cannot wipe your entire harddisk! Besides, assembly.xml is not obfuscated in any way. Anyone with enough brainscells to rub together, can rename the .OIV to .ZIP, and inspect the contents for themselves.

The primary reason not to use .OIV, is that there's no undo; and, ere long (with a few hundred commands) you lose track of what happened (and thus what you potentially need to undo manually). Other than that, .OIV is entirely safe; subsidiarily, safer to use than your typical .dll or .asi file.

In the end, it boils down to whether you trust the source (when inspection, like an .asi, is hard). And, as Quant demonstated, you can abuse said trust exactly only once.

@FlyFixer @JohnFromGWN Indeed. Why muck about with some weird tool, when OpenIV can do it too, and likely even better.

When the textures are embedded, you can use 3ds Max, for instance. There too you can get the texture ID list mixed up (but not when you do it properly).

Instead of 3ds Max, which also comes with a max price, I personally love the simple ODR route (export with OpenIV to .odr). ODR can be used by 3ds Max too, of course, but its text files can also be easily edited manually, to swap out embedded textures, sans running the risk of getting the texture ID list messed up (or certain types of glass getting borked).

@JohnFromGWN An upvote for lulz.

@Aurora11 said in QuantV Malware:

@JohnFromGWN @meimeiriver WOW Take 2 actually did something good for once LOL

Not even having the dignity or honor to apologize from people for that little stunt he did let alone admitting the truth despite being proven multiple times from multiple people, then even saying I'm still gonna keep doing this under different names but I'm just gonna disguise it better this time.... Well yeah, you had this coming you fuck!

Sorry for my vulgarity but despite being unaffected I'm still quite pissed. Like I said if it was to delete only quant files I wouldn't be mad at all and I would understand but wiping out entire hard drives is like going to fire with a damn flamethrower!!!!!! I hope he never comes back to modding ever again miserable filthy filth....

I wish they would sue his ass too but I hope they do it as well!!

Looks more like he's trying to save face: "Evil T2 took my awesome mod offline." Riiiight. Funny how T2 never went after the other thousands of GTV modders.

Or they actually got him to stop. Either way, Good F*cking Riddance.

@Dark34566 You can get this file yourself, either thru steam 'verify files' or thru Rockstar launcher directly. If you can't, then you're likely running a cracked game.

@Jitnaught Indeed; and we do not support cracked games.

@JohnFromGWN Glad you're file a complaint with Discord. He should be banned from it. If you hadn't, I would have filed the report (surprised seemingly no one already did).

@JohnFromGWN said in QuantV Malware:

@meimeiriver said in QuantV Malware:

You can't file a criminal lawsuit

Why not? Isn't this similar to hacking into a server? Except he's hacking into an unwilling client. He never had permission, certainly not to wipe out drives in alphabetical order.

I'm not saying your wrong and ofc I'm not familiar with Spanish law although this is international.

Edit. I understand what you meant, you file a civil suit, but you report a crime.

Yes. Prosecuting crimes is traditionally done by the State/the people (represented by the District Attorney, in his country). There are a few countries, like Belgium, where civilians have limited means to instigate a criminal case, but most Western countries leave it to the exclusive domain of the State.

@ReNNie LOL, I needed a good laugh.

@ReNNie You can't file a criminal lawsuit, only a civil one. He can certainly report the crime to the authorities. And in the meantime sue the dick for every penny he's got.