Bifrost malware and crash at Angel Core

[MiniMe]

Every time I play Borderlands, it instals "Bifrost", a virus that turns my computer into part of a zombie network. It appears as if 2K does not have servers any longer, for multiplay. Instead, bifrost saves stuff (abuses our laptops as "servers) into a hidden/hidden (unusable, undeletable) area of my hard disk.
bifrost can slow down the performance of your machine extremely, and I noticed nonsensical amounts of data. used, that I did not use.
A regular anti-virus will not find it, but you find it in the appdata (if it's not "hidden" in the settings which you can change in the explorer) via search or a tool, such as unhack me.

[Radiowavehero]

Hmm I see a Bifrost folder but it's only using 160KB and seems to be cache of server settings or something like that ? for example "privacy":"public","max_occupants":4,"crossplay":"all","metadata"

There is also a bifrost DLL in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Borderlands 2\Binaries\Win32

I turn my network mode to offline as soon as I get to the main menu because otherwise the game has stutter and can kick you out of the game randomly.

I wonder if this Bifrost sh!t is what causes the stutter ? (seems like it , it's related to epic game store crossplay SHIFT crap)

I never play online but I see 60 or so cache files from back in 2020 all on the same day when the update came out, after that only 1 or 2 files since 2020 have been made , perhaps because I don't play online , don't use shift , disable network mode and all that.

If you are only playing solo try turning your network mode to offline (Borderlands 2 main menu , network options) and see if the crashes stop and data usage goes down.

Seems it has something to do with the new sh!tty epic game store crossplay.

It doesn't seem to be a virus or related to the virus named bifrost , bifrost was a magical bridge in Norse mythology that linked the realm of the gods to earth.

So it's probably just a case of both groups using the name because it has the meaning of being a "connection" the virus bifrost is a backdoor , meanwhile the bifrost bl2 uses is a LAN connection.

Of course if you think you have a virus you shouldn't ignore that , but if you delete it and borderlands stops working , well it's probably just a sh!tty matchmaking program with the same name as a virus from the 2000s

[Casurin]

How did you even come up with the strange (and false) idea that this tool is a virus!?

[Radiowavehero]

Because there is literally a virus named Bifrost and it was probably confirmation bias after that , they got paranoid it was a virus and so any data being sent looked suspicious maybe ?

It's weird to think that gearbox would use a virus backdoor to connect users rather than it being a simple LAN connection but some people are looking for conspiracies everywhere I guess.

[Casurin]

Originally posted by Radiowavehero:

Because there is literally a virus named Bifrost and it was probably confirmation bias after that , they got paranoid it was a virus and so any data being sent looked suspicious maybe ?

It's weird to think that gearbox would use a virus backdoor to connect users rather than it being a simple LAN connection but some people are looking for conspiracies everywhere I guess.

i mean at that point i'd rather just believe it was the asgard bridge that gearbox wanted to add to borderlands.