Author Topic: Roguebasin has a link to a sus site  (Read 3311 times)

bapanada

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Roguebasin has a link to a sus site
« on: March 29, 2025, 06:11:24 PM »
Basically, i'm pretty new and wanted to start programming my own roguelike, so i looked at roguebasin's c++ libtcod tutorial - while reading it I clicked on a hyperlink that supposedly was a link to libtcod's manual, but instead it opened a site that offered something that seemed to be a reCaptcha, that after being ticked off gave me a pop up saying something along the lines of "To be more certain that you are not a bot, click 'windows key + R' then Ctrl+V and then Enter" which i assume is a virus of some kind.
(i'm pretty new + english is not my first language + not as experienced programming so if  ANYTHING i said doesn't make sense please do say something so i can explain myself better/ learn something from somebody who is more knowledgeable than me)

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Re: Roguebasin has a link to a sus site
« Reply #1 on: April 22, 2025, 05:03:44 AM »
You were right to be suspicious. The old roguecentral domain has been expired for a long time, and apparently now it's being used to distribute malware.

I've gone through the tutorial wiki pages and replaced all the expired links I could find. These links now go to the docs hosted on GitHub.

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Re: Roguebasin has a link to a sus site
« Reply #2 on: April 23, 2025, 12:45:06 AM »
Thanks!