Hidden Addon?

[Doctor Timbrwulf]

Hey, is anyone getting notified of GM downloading what is literally called a "hidden addon"? I've never seen this before this week, and it's actually a bit unnerving. Is it spyware/malware?

[England is not a real country]

So far nothing;

I just installed gmod after an 2 year break and haven´t touched the workshop yet , so i guess is probably some addon that got hijacked to make people fear downloading stuff from the workshop.

So far nobody has mentioned any case of their pcs getting invaded by this addon , aside from you.

[NuvA]

i believe it's an addon that was privated/deleted/ etc

[Doctor Timbrwulf]

Originally posted by Scout:

i guess is probably some addon that got hijacked to make people fear downloading stuff from the workshop.

Originally posted by trololololq:

i believe it's an addon that was privated/deleted/ etc

Okay, in either case, how do I get rid of it?

[NuvA]

type menu_cleanupgmas in the console

[Ditto]

There is a troll going around causing chaos on the workshop by sending out fake DMCA, it may have been an addon that was unfortunately taken down, or unlisted to protect and be archived. See here for more info https://steamcommunity.com/app/4000/discussions/5/4211497623308213915/

[Denneisk]

Hidden addons just mean that an addon on the Workshop that was once public is now hidden or removed from the Workshop. It's nothing malicious.

[Doctor Timbrwulf]

Originally posted by Ditto:

There is a troll going around causing chaos on the workshop by sending out fake DMCA, it may have been an addon that was unfortunately taken down, or unlisted to protect and be archived. See here for more info https://steamcommunity.com/app/4000/discussions/5/4211497623308213915/

WHOA! That's heavy. Thanks for the heads-up; I just thought Nintendo didn't like their characters in Garry's Mod. Now I know better.

Originally posted by trololololq:

type menu_cleanupgmas in the console

Will that erase everything?

[NuvA]

it erases deleted/etc addons

[minos]

Addon: is hidden, banned or doesn't exist.

[Doctor Timbrwulf]

Sorted through my list of addons, and discovered the culprits: some of the addons I had downloaded were replaced with "hidden addon". Removed the invalid items, and now no more message.

[Sammadily]

Nintendo is removing all Nintendo related assets in Gmod. so that's probably why.

[Videogames]

Originally posted by Doctor Timbrwulf:

Sorted through my list of addons, and discovered the culprits: some of the addons I had downloaded were replaced with "hidden addon". Removed the invalid items, and now no more message.

You really should not have done that btw. Neither is the "cleanupgmas" command safe.

Instead the solution to this is to go to either `steamapps\workshop\content\4000`
or sometimes it may be in
`steamapps\common\GarrysMod\garrysmod\cache\workshop`
for some reason due to a recent bug introduced in the x86 branch.

And decompress the GMA file into it's own folder in `steamapps\common\GarrysMod\garrysmod\addons`
you can use the gmad .exe extractor in Garry'sMod\bin to do this but generally recommended to use the third party program 'Crowbar' for alot more options.

[MasterSoviet]

Well whenever an addon is hidden banned or remove I just go to my addons folder and convert them into file folders and I was able to do this years ago when the Nintendo crisis happen

[Doctor Timbrwulf]

I think we know why this happened, now.

Please reference my guide if you have the same issue: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3232526444