I Exposed This SHADY Minecraft Client, And They Responded… 

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Their response is a textbook example of *how not to respond* if you are accused of such things... Good work with this video.

Imagine completely relying on taking someone elses idea/product, make it worse, then give it to the same demographic the original product is being advertised to, sue a bunch of people for no reason and then think everyone else are the bad guys. Absolute clown shoes of a company

FYI, small detail- pretty sure the official Minecraft launcher bundles java by default, so if you don't have Java, you won't actually be asked to download this. Had an issue with this a long time ago when I tried to install fabric then realizing I straight up never actually installed java

I'm Russian and knew about TL/TLauncher shenanigans way before your video. Nobody worships TLauncher like a gods, the only issue is that their VK group is literally controlled by them and they can remove any opposing opinion. Its like writing a bad review on their own site. The funny thing is most of latest comments under that post are not related in any way to the post itself, but to the game itself - like, "Why the f**** launcher uses 1.5 GB of RAM", "i got java error in *that random modpack name*, what to do to fix". The "We are Russians and god with us" is hilarious, because its kind of Russian meme.

It's funny how they are trying to prove that TLauncher is safe with very little evidence. TLauncher:"TLauncher is harmless" Source:"Trust me bro"

It's really hard to "take them out of business" and "turn their community against them" when you realise that more than half the users are kids whose parents didn't buy them the game and just want to play the game for free regardless of whether or not it puts a virus on their computer

I was using TLauncher for 6 years, until 1 week ago. I watched your video, and even though Minecraft Official is expensive in India, I bought it. Thank you so much for the advice, and to letting me know that it had such a shady past, and may still be shady. (I am subbed for 2 years now :D )

It's just sad when you see people from your country saying something like "God's with us" or "America's trying to ruin Russia" in defence of cracked minecraft launcher

As a Russian, i think 8:28 “God is with us!” Phrase is like a meme to me. TLauncher braindead admins were trying to call up to patriotism and etc, but every person with at least 1 braincell would laugh at that. Adequate people even making jokes with that, like “Two alcoholics are trying to catch a taxi and asked driver to get 3 onboard. Driver asked where is 3rd and alcoholics said, that they are Russians and God with us” Also, it such an irony, to radicalize every non-russian users by calling them nazis or racists. It’s like member of KKK trying to cancel others for slurs

Even if Notch's tweet was "fair game", I think it reffers to the players, not companies that stole the programs from both Mojang and TL Legacy team, added potential dangerous code, gives DMCA takedowns left and right and monetizes their launcher.

ty for making this, when I installed tl all my drivers got disabled including sound, internet and camera oh and it locked me in safe mode

5:15 Idk, im unsure since I'm still a student at Technology Information, but just seeing the code, its normal for an app to create an instance of information such as Gpu, OS, ram, and etc. Since every application has a requirements of information to run.. Like gta 5: needs to be run at this ram, gpu etc. 5:15 Also that kind of code, we use it as well in Java app development, website, and c# frameworks, Where in we would get the information if the device can carry the app and soon connect it to our data base (we use mysql).. What i agree was the 5:19 where in cmd.exe or different .exe file, which is sus, since why does it need an .exe files. 5:22, what i think of it is that , that code will be directed at logs contains information, where what server u join, what mods u use, chat in the server, ping, connection, time and etc. ** which funfact developers/mod in cracked server uses logs, if a particularly player uses hacks such an xray( u can see it in ur folders) where in devs or mods will request to send player logs in discord or smth. To see information if the user loaded a hack**. Now the links in 4:20 that code only leads to automatic JDK/JRE download, but the JRE itself is kinda sus cuz i already have 4 versions of java's JRE yet im still required to download just to play tlauncher..idk anything about their website download but its bit sus since im still required to download. JRE: is a environment programmer use to code/ program such , phyton, java and other languages. Tho AGAIN I'm STILL a STUDENT in IT and CIS, and yes I have installed Tlauncher for 4 years, and explored the files in tlaunched(u can use notepad++, or sublime text), so i can't say if it's good or bad. But so far nothing happened to my files, projects and other programming languages /apps i use. So it's only sus to me. AGAIN IM JUST SHARING OF WHAT I KNOW, IM STILL AN IMATURE STUDENT XD, SO THIS IS ONLY MY OPINION.

They just banned me in their VK group when I started asking them questions about the source code of their launcher. And they deleted all my messages so other people wouldn't see my questions.

The fact that they think their reaction is gonna fix their reputation is laughable. Them doubling down is only gonna make people more wary of them.

It's so sad too. The original dev is still working on his launcher naming it the "tlauncher legacy launcher". It's still updated and is the safest launcher out there

I think an ingenious strategy to catch the TLauncher team with very solid proof is by running TLauncher in a virtual machine, then force freezing the Virtual Machine, and then dumping all processes to a file, and then also dumping all of TLauncher's contents onto that file or a separate file, and then finding solid proof to show TLauncher's dark secrets. And by doing this on a live stream, this will definitely get TLauncher out of the way, and TLauncher could also possibly be sued for false DMCA takedowns and privacy and malware stuff. Moral of the story: don't be a duᎷb and annoying and deceiving company

Absolutely insane that they were trying to lie to try and cover these shady issues. Before you original video, I had absolutely no idea how shady t-launcher really was, and I am glad you are bringing attention to this.

"All countries are beautiful in there own way you cannot call them bad or wrong." TheMisterEpic:"How absolutely beautiful and insightful in fact I'm booking my ticket to North Korea"💀

The fact that you have to pay 20 dollars for premium but you can just buy Minecraft

its so ironic, my friend told me about 3 days ago that if i don't want to pay for Minecraft on pc, i can just download Tlauncher and still have the updates and the ability to download mods, and then i see two videos exposing it for being a scam launcher

It's a shame that so many people use this wonderful game that we all love to be greedy, my heart goes out to all the mod devs trying their best

Nice job calling them out, a response like this indicates that you're clearly going in the right direction with this stuff

7:16 ''in fact I'm booking my ticket to north korea'' -had me dying lol 🤣🤣🤣

The new launcher for the java edition that replaced the 1.6 launcher of the game downloads its own version of Java. The reason for it boils down to oracle tightening security on newer releases of the JVM. This means the fix mojang had introduced to allow versions that predate release 1.6 to run in other directories broke when running on a version of Java newer than 8. Forge also breaks when running on newer versions of Java. This being said, Mojang hosts downloads for Java. There is no reason to host your own versions of Java.

I VK you can moderate comments in your groups, so they probably just delete any comments that don't sit well with them, making it look like everyone agrees with response and defends the launcher, when the reality is completely different.

7:54 I've had T launcher a while back (thankfully I bought the original game) And all my laptop ports got fried. We couldn't use any of them until we asked a PC technician. He told us we had a famous spyware which hacks and disables all ports. Its scary how people still trust T Launcher, Even outside Russia

Got this on my recommended and I hoped the thumbnail was just for an example, didnt know Tlauncher had malware, luckily I wasnt hacked and even better I was able to play with my friends, thx for making this video tho.

I've been using TLauncher for about 8 years, I knew that this is some sort of sketchy things going on around here, but i didn't have enough money to afford licensed copy of Minecraft. Last year my ex-girlfriend gifted me an official copy of Minecraft. I'm suffering the consequences of using TLauncher until now. Here, In Russia, we have some sort of pirate culture and it's very big and developed, because of the prices on games and thoughts like "Why would I buy a computer game, when I can download it for free?".

TLauncher нравится пользователям из России по той причине, что для них этот лаунчер является частью их детства. Многие пользователи из России знакомятся с TLauncher, когда впервые начинают играть в Майнкрафт. Вот почему они и защищают TLauncher, несмотря на всё, чем занимаются его создатели. Спасибо, что открываете людям глаза!

No wonder i got a gmail saying someone recovered their account on windows. WTF

what i most hate about tlauncher is once you uninstall it, it completely delets your .minecraft folder yet leaves trays behind with sus exe files. Of course i had to find out the hard way, looking through my programms i dont use, uninstalling it and then boom, loosing 15gb of minecraft worlds, texturepacks, mods etc. No confirmation, nothing. They just wipe you off.

Using lies to damage control, favorite tactic, isn't it? I plan actually getting Minecraft legitimately. You did the right thing, and exposed those fools.

their launcher is so good that when you get an OpenGL error they tell you to "Downgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 7" as a solution, holy shit what a solution.

Back in 2021 my school had an event online for minecraft I was not able to join but I still installed the launcher deleted it some time later.. I dont know how my school trusted this so much that they told 1000+ people to install it all being students.

I'm currently kinda worried. I installed the launcher unaware of this situation, then stumbled across this and the original video in the same night, and immediately uninstalled the launcher as well as the fake Java that it installs. Should I be fine now or should I be worried about a virus that deletes itself during a scan and reinstalls itself after the scan??

04:28 Nowadays applications bundle their own Java Runtime Environment to run their application, in fact, the Minecraft Launcher does that for you.

Summary: a RU-vidr made a video exposing a shady Minecraft launcher with potential viruses, then 2 days later they responded with even more lies to “justify” themselves but were debunked in the simplest way.

You should also do videos about other cracked minecraft launchers such as sklauncher and multimc.

as a little fact, some time ago there was a rumor or scandal that TLauncher was stealing licensed accounts (and maybe selling them) idk if i should trust those rumors, but i've lost a couple of licensed accounts i used to own (and where the license was officially purchased) so i would believe the rumor, but better to look into the matter in more detail because then it comes out EVERYTHING is funnier

The absolute AUDACITY of T launcher developers to call someone bad while them being the worst and cruel is insane fr 💀

I knew before that there is something shady behind this crappy launcher and not knowing any alternatives motivated me to buy Minecraft for the full price, which is somewhat expensive there. Thank you for bringing this up as not so many people know about it. It would be nice for the vid to have captions in other languages, like Russian for example as the language barrier can be a problem and if someone would want to reupload the translated vid it would probably be DMCAed. Edit: BTW, the official Minecraft launcher actually comes with java, you can see it while editing instance settings.

I personally mostly used the original t launcher and i was shocked to see my friends had different kinds of t launcher. When ever i switched PC's i used a pendrive to get the launcher and never thought of installing a new one and i can say that the original was simpler and thus trustworthy.

amazing video, im switching to sklauncher already but can i ask about the modpack being shown in the video? that world seems to look amazing

"We investigated ourselves and found no wrong doing" "Source? Well we don't have any but we do have this very old tweet of notch made"

There are still some people in this comment section that insist TLauncher is safe, which just goes to show how much of an influence it has. This is a serious problem with free software, especially in the minecraft community. People will go out of their way to download sketchy software, and then are surprised when the sketchy software is malicous. This series on TLauncher is really well put together and I hope to see more deep dives like this in the future.

I still remember the real author of the launcher - turikhay. Back then, when I returned to Minecraft after dropping it in 2015 or so, I figured the TLauncher at that moment looked a bit too "polished" or commercialised. Eventually, my suspicions have all been arriving at a well disguised conspiracy turikhay has gone through. Since then, been using the OG TLauncher from turikhay that looked as (to its own benefit at this point) bland and simple as before. Though a bit of digging the entire internet to find just his version was needed to play Minecraft on any of my closest people's machines.

in the forum saying that the launcher is no virus they litterally deleted the comments saying it was a virus

Wow, just insane, you really have grown in popularity since I started watching you, congrats mister!

Lmao I used to use Tlauncher to play when I was still in highschool, but have since upgraded and bought myself the actual game immediately after getting a job and being paid. Too bad it had to come to this. I salute you for spreading this information, cause I definitely didn’t know that it was this bad

I start to play Minecraft recently and use TLauncher at first. Since my laptop is quite a potato one, I run Minecraft in minimal setting, and still have problems with crashing sometimes. I looked at Task Manager and see a high memory usage, so I just thought that it's just because of my potato laptop. Then, I saw your video about TLauncher. I check comments about suggestion on using the legacy one, so I run it to see if I can get a better experience. And, better experience I get. It runs so much smoother even though I still didn't tinker the setting to be a minimal requirement. I'm no expert, but even I can tell that TLauncher is running unnecessary things on the background at this point. Yeah, I'm walking away from TLauncher.

you earned a subscriber!! Great knowledge I am really surprised this shady truth I use to use it but after I bought the real minecraft i stopped using it and started using lunar client. This is great information really thanks for this information. .

Most people don't understand one single thing: good virus is a sneaky one, you won't be able to find it unless you're specifically trying to do so. If they haven't found a virus in there, it doesn't mean that there're no viruses. 2000 rubles (that is how much minecraft costs in Russia) just seems too much for a game for most people. I've personally seen just two pirated minecraft launchers. One of them is TLauncher. The other one is TL (older version of TLauncher, as far as I know), which I've discovered by buying a disk containing a pirated version of the game (I haven't realised that it was pirated until that shop got permanently closed for legal reasons (yeah, you could buy a disk with a pirated game in Russia, that's a long story though)). Just two, and both of them were made by the same team. That's how popular TLauncher in Russia is.

If you can expose a bad actor, and they feel the need to respond; you have successfully intimidated them, so keep going TheMisterEpic!

I have bit more information on this. This is not original TLauncher. Original one was renamed to TL, original author is turikhay (as i remember). The current TLauncher just registered a trademark and started to sue with turikhay for it. As a result, they ARE doing bad things with viruses and an original launcher is still alive.

Using Notch as a legal justification is also doubly funny considering he has literally nothing to do with the game now. His word today on the topic means nothing let alone his word 10 years ago.

Certified bruh moment for TLauncher 💀

So, as a russian who also uses VK, there is a huge possibility that TL devs/managers/whoever just delete all the negative comments, because thats kinda how VK works. If the comment is left in a place that you moderate you can just delete it without any problems (Like deleting a message in your own discord server if im to make this comparion)

"virus scanners that existed for 30 years" Then they're way too outdated lol

Ty for telling the truth i used other microsoft account because im so worried what will happen to that account....

And just like that, politics is now in Minecraft as well. As a Russian myself, I apologise for my braindead comrades. It's just because without TLauncher they most likely won't be able to play pirated Minecraft (not sure how many pirate launchers are still out there), and that would be a disaster to them. Piracy has become an integral part of gaming culture in Russia, and it's still growing ever so stronger because of current politics and sanctions.

Guilty as charged, it is clear they are trying to cover up their lies, ironically with more lies and misleading statements. Keep up the good work.

Thank you for this information, my laptop was destroyed because of this malware.

Can't wait for their Counter claim for this video

As someone who has used T launcher in the past I can confirm it is riddled with viruses, I lost my Minecraft Java account a few days after installing it now some random person in Kazakhstan has it!

The part where they called you racist had me laughing 😂

Okay, but is there a way to clean up the computers of those who picked up TLauncher? Asking because I shared my laptop with my brother once with a TLauncher installed and I would not like viruses or spywares to remain in my system. Preferably, no hard reset of course unless it is very much necessary.

Well, I agree that TL sounds very suspicious, however I would like to explain exactly what the functions you screenshoted do. 5:03 This function sends telemetry about what version of Minecraft you have installed, and has nothing to do with the programs installed on your pc. 5:07 Another basic telemetry. 5:11 Now this is really bad. This way they are logging the ip addresses of the servers and thus they are directly violating your and the servers owners' privacy. 5:19 The cmd mentioned is actually called by TLauncher. You can see the command prompt window pop up when your game crashes and it shows the error stack and displays some launch logs. The Launcher runs Minecraft verbose in order to show these errors similarly how you would run your Minecraft server manually. 5:25 dxdiag cannot alter any drivers from your pc. The option "/whql=off" will enable dxdiag to display information about drivers that were not downloaded via windows update. As a conclusion TLauncher does indeed collect some stuff from your pc. This is a somewhat normal telemetry. Official Minecraft does this too. Your browser does this too. Even your wallpaper engine from steam collects some data. If you really really want privacy, then just don't play Minecraft and switch to linux, start using tor or even better become a monk. From a legal point of view all this data should be mentioned in the "terms and conditions". I am not supporting TLauncher tho. I am saying that your claims about the code are to an extent exaggerated. Stay safe and do not pirate games.

i feel like everytime if people are arguing on the internet in different countries their first instinct is to call 'em racist lmao 0:20

LMAOO i commented your video on their fb page and they got madd lmao

will they do things like information selling? if they will are there ways to avoid getting our information sold instead without formatting our pc?

Them making a statement in just 2 days is textbook example of how not to respond to company crises lmao

Me and my friends had been using Tlauncher in the past and I think some still do, thank you for talking about the Tlauncher spyware/malware and telling people what is really happening

why do i still use it even after it was proven to be malware

thanks for saying this. I switched to tl legacy and now I don't feel at risk of precious info getting out

I am Russian, thank you very much for telling everyone that the tlauncher is a virus, my translation may not be very good. Good luck hitting 1 million!

Dude, I love the funny ways you tell people to subscribe LMAO Been subbed for i don't even remember how long! Love your content, keep doing great stuff !!

You forgot to mention about account stealing. Sicne Tlauncher is the launcher you can log in with your mojang account, there was a lot of situation about stealling accs from Tlauncher side.

Tbf there is nothing bad on collecting data about what hardware and OS you have (steam does too, but in a different way). As a Russian user of TLauncher I totally believe the thing u said. But I've been using TL for several years and didn't have any issues tbh.

Never argue with a RU-vidr who does hours of research per video.

6:07 Also would like to add that the person tweeting doesn't even own Minecraft anymore.

Tlauncher does interact with drivers! Specifically internet and sound. Beware.

They worked around the method used to have it actually scanned - Now we have to re-sign the file(s) pulled with a certificate we would generate using SelfCert found in Microsoft Office installations to have these actually scanned. They cannot work around this as the certificates are generated using unique randomness (in Linux terms, some kind of /dev/urandom) generated thanks to the entropy gained on your local machine - Those who had a history with GnuPG know what I am talking about here.

Hello from Russia and yes, this 'software' is very popular here!!! The problem is that TLauncher became the big part of Russian Minecraft Community. And even I've had the Pirated Minecraft back in 2010's. Average Russian child can't afford 2000 rubles for Licensed one, so that become to existence of TLauncher. Sadly, a few from community can see the problems in TLauncher and most of the people would defend TLauncher rather than buy the licensed copy. Upd.: sorry for my English, I tried but my knowledge of English is awful.

Them responding literally confirmed TLauncher being a scam. Edit: There’s a comment war in the replies

How could they steal the entire tech straight from the company that made it and not get sued immediately? Makes no sense to me ngl

Can confirm that it doesnt have a virus. I have been using it for a long time, and both in my old computer, and this computer it has done nothing. But idk if it actually has done nothing or some dark thing is going on in the background.

Tlauncher ddossed my friend for putting Ukraine banner and my friend indentified as a Ukrainian-French. My friend checked where the ddoss came from and it came from Russia. That actually happened when my friend hosted the mc server and his launcher was being used as Tlauncher ofc

The work you do is amazing, keep it up!

thank you for opening my eyes about this topic, I saw this for the first time on tiktok and thought it was a lie, now I see how much I could have lost because I have been using this platform since 2016, thanks again

yes, now we need a vid. on HOW TO UNINSTALL THE MALICIOUS FILES, AND THE LAUNCHER

In addition to your first video about Tlauncher, they also blocks all custom versions presented in tl (when both running), like created by user

I just finished watching your original video, then this pops up. I'm very pleased :)

I remember when I was downloading TLauncher it didn't tell me that I have to download Java. After seeing your video and talking to some of my friends I switched to SKlauncher. When I downloaded it SKlauncher it asked me to download Java which i thought was very strange because that didn't happen when installing Tlauncher

As someone who used TLauncher for 7 months and deinstalled it 1 week ago, i dont know what to do now but this video is great. Should I be scared? Anyways Thank You!

Thats funny that they say it doesn’t have viruses when I uninstalled TLauncher, IT DELETED MY MINECRAFT WORLDS THAT I PLAYED ON THE OFFICIAL LAUNCHER!!!! It started to put my worlds on a zip file which I was confused as to why it was doing that right when I was uninstalling the game. So I ended up deleting the files it left behind and reinstalling the official launcher again. So yeah definitely something that isn’t a virus would do…

Ive been using Tlauncher for a while and even tho ive had my suspiscious, never saw a problem. Thank you for showing this Im not sure simply deleting the game is enough to get rid of these viruses, does anyone know a good way to clean my pc completely?

Imagine having McAfee scanning your launcher, and it comes back as a Trojan that's a Big F

We need more detectives like you on youtube

Thanks for spreading the word. I've been using this launcher because of my C drive problems(it can fully change the direction of minecraft installation) and then moved to The multimc which is way safer.