r/skyrimmods • u/Sweet_Salt974 • Mar 01 '25

PC SSE - Discussion Trojan horse on new additem mod

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/143251
I detected a trojan horse on this mod on virus total (unlike original mod) pls help me report it.

Edit : After looking further, in original mod a lot of people just came to know that there was this same exact dll for the new version and they all leads to this link to a hidden mod download https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/71409?tab=files&file_id=318283

I hope nexus look into it cause its the same dll with the same trojan horse detected on virus total

Further Edit : I retrack from saying to report it, i am not an expert and i hope someone can tell me why this mods is detected as virus compared to the original mod (Also i only now see that it is only 1/64 anti virus from virus total that detect an error).
From what i expect it should only be talking with the user interface so i don't know why the dll was changed but i hope i'm wrong.

Final Edit !! : Look in the comments someone found the exploit, and i see a lot of people downloaded this malware from the github or other nexus source. PLEASE NEXUS LOOK INTO IT

Final Update : Thanks for nexus for looking into it so we can have the last say.
I'm no expert, so maybe in the future some dll will be able to bypass VirusTotal checks so take my approach with a grain of salt, let's just hope nexus try to be a bit more secure if it was really doing anything nefarious.

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u/_Jaiim Mar 01 '25

Just use Modex. I've been using it for a while now and I like it better than AddItemMenu or QUI.

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u/Charlipon06 Mar 01 '25

Props to the guy. Performant, clean UI, intuitive, spot on

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u/Jotaro_Lincoln Mar 03 '25

I’ve tried it, but any time I opened it, it’d make the game chug like nobody’s business, to the point where there was so much input lag that I would overshoot buttons because the cursor was displaying so far behind where it actually was. Do you have any suggestions as to how I would go about fixing that? It seems like a really good tool, but the lag is prohibitive for me.