Minecraft, the immensely popular world-building game with more than 74 million players, has a malware problem. Users who download skins for their avatars, from the official Minecraft website, are unwittingly allowing malicious code onto their computers.
Currently, nearly 50,000 Minecraft accounts are known to be infected with the malware which is designed to reformat a person’s hard drive and delete backup data and system programs.
ORIGINAL SOURCE: Alphr