There is a new spyware program being put in the files of tons of games

[t h e]

The average consumer would reject Red Shell if given the option, even if its harmless people will see it as an intrusion of privacy regardless of what is said. It would be kind a lot less useful at that point

[FunnyGamer]

Really? I know quite a lot of people that'd press [yes] to "Do you wish to send us anonymous information to help develop our game" or similar.

And considering GDPR exists wouldn't they kind of have to lol

[Borealis]

Bit of a bump, but apparently Steam itself is connecting to Redshell as well

https://i.imgur.com/rkGU3xF.png

source

[Aptann]

As pointed out in the source, it's the posters fault. It's displaying redshell.io because it's in his hosts file.

Compare to mine:

https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/172004/4383a139-d718-40f0-837a-951d53c64441/Capture.PNG

[Borealis]

That was after I saw the post, but still good to know it's a false alarm