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T.BlackDeath Sep 15, 2019 @ 10:04am

"I am Sorry !!!!!" sentence in every screenshot I took since I downloaded Steam on my laptop

ok so this is weird, I've been taking screenshots in Life Is Strange Before The Storm and everything is cool, till I found something strange in every F***ing screenshot I took there is "I am Sorry !!!!" in the bottom left of the photo.

example:

Life is Strange: Before the Storm

A Screenshot of Life is Strange: Before the Storm

By: T.BlackDeath

example 2:

Life is Strange: Before the Storm

A Screenshot of Life is Strange: Before the Storm

By: T.BlackDeath

example 3 (csgo):

Counter-Strike 2

A Screenshot of Counter-Strike 2

By: T.BlackDeath

I experienced the same thing with Dark Souls III when I took a screenshot of the video settings menu in the game

is there any explanation or fix for this strange problem?
Any help would be appreciate it since this is hella strange

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Originally posted by wuddih:

that is a virus. if you consistently uploaded your taken screenshots, then you acquired it in the last 2-3 days. it modifies every jpg.

scan your system

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wuddih Sep 15, 2019 @ 11:01am

that is a virus. if you consistently uploaded your taken screenshots, then you acquired it in the last 2-3 days. it modifies every jpg.

scan your system

VoidStar Sep 15, 2019 @ 11:06am

Hax

AustrAlien2010 Sep 15, 2019 @ 3:24pm

One possible explanation would be some joke program is running, and is targeting your files and adds the text to it, just before uploading it to the screenshot server.

Just out of curiosity: which operating system does your laptop use?

Last edited by AustrAlien2010; Sep 15, 2019 @ 3:47pm

Muppet among Puppets Sep 15, 2019 @ 5:24pm

Could be a ransomware. So it modifies many files and asks for money.
At least thats what you can read about it.

Personally i would go the better safe than sorry lane. Format and reinstall.

T.BlackDeath Sep 15, 2019 @ 5:39pm

Thanks guys, I'll format and reinstall my OS, since my main steamapp files are in the other partitions I don't think that I need to format the other hard disk partitions other than Local Disk (C:)

I will post anything new in-case someone experienced the same thing over the time.

Last edited by T.BlackDeath; Sep 15, 2019 @ 5:40pm

Muppet among Puppets Sep 15, 2019 @ 5:46pm

Something contained that malware. You need to find it.

T.BlackDeath Sep 15, 2019 @ 6:05pm

apparently I found the virus, it's called "Ground.exe" the icon of this virus is the same icon of Dark Souls III, which I installed 5 days ago.. and whenever I press "open file location" for this Groundy thing it takes me to the roaming folder of the system.. and there is no hidden files that I saw even when I allowed seeing the hidden files.

I turned the "Ground.exe" off through the startup tab of the task manager, and I prevented the app from having contents inexed in addition to file.

theoretically the virus can't work anymore, but I am not sure if it can't reinstall itself like 90% of malwares.. so I guess formatting the OS is my better choice right now.