Red Shell game company is installing spyware on your system.

[Duncan Idaho]

if you have played any of the following games in the last few months, with more to be named:

• Elder Scrolls Online
• Civilization VI
• Any game in the Total War series
• Kerbal Space Program
• Warhammer: Vermintide 2
• Dead by Daylight
• Warhammer 40k Eternal Crusade
• Magic the Gathering Arena
• My Time At Portia
• Battlerite
• AER Memories of Old
• Guardians of Ember
• The Onion Knights
• Realm Grinder
• Heroine
• Anthem Zero
• Krosmaga
• Secret World Legends
• Hunt: Showdown
• Escapists 2

then lucky for you, a company called Red Shell has installed data collection programs in your computer with updates to these games.

To stop them:

1) email them at privacy@redshell.io, give them your steam id (i.e. the name in the url from your steam profile) and tell them specifically to delete your data and stop collecting data from you under the EU'S GDPR laws or face legal penalty

2) for additional protection, go to:

1) c:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts and open up that file in notepad.

2) add to the bottom: 0.0.0.0 api.redshell.io 0.0.0.0 redshell.io 127.0.0.01 redshell.io 0.0.0.0 treasuredata.com 0.0.0.0 in.treasuredata.com

3) THEN go to your command prompt and type in "ipconfig /flushdns"

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Thanks to Phearo for providing the newest games that have been reported.

UPDATE #1: The IP here is not the valid one, but it can be found in the redshell.io document or by pinging redhsell.io (open CMD and type /ping redhsell.io)

UPDATE #2: Game list fixed.

UPDATE #3:

UPDATE #3: Phearo has been kind enough to share an imgur album for those who use windows firewall and want to block it.

 

[Jiven]

Isn't that illegal ?

 

[Duncan Idaho]

Isn't that illegal ?

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Depending where you live, yes.

 

[Heaven Canceler]

Huh, got Arena a while ago.. but should I care? I buy pretty much nothing online except some random stuff for my grandparents once in a blue moon. And I use no credit card info there.

Like are they collecting data I should care about or just how much I play the game and what adds I click on? Like Google has done that since forever anyway after all.

 

[Xero Key]

Huh, got Arena a while ago.. but should I care? I buy pretty much nothing online except some random stuff for my grandparents once in a blue moon. And I use no credit card info there.

Like are they collecting data I should care about or just how much I play the game and what adds I click on? Like Google has done that since forever anyway after all.

Click to shrink...

Because this group doesn't have it in the Terms of Service that they are allowed to. Not only that, doing so is illegal in the EU and most of the Western world.