Wow, quite the impressive hardware setup there!
I rent a couple of virtual servers (including the one this is running on) from a few providers.
I also host a couple of game servers on a Dedicated machine.
Don’t have any physical hosting myself, don’t have the resources for such a thing!
I used to self-host a few utilities like a cloud storage solution, link shortener, paste provider, image host etc. but got fed up of maintaining it all ha!
Nowadays I just run a small number of game servers, and CompuVerse!
Coleman is a real brand!? I legitimately had no idea 😂
I loved FFXV, the only advertisement I outright noticed was Cup Noodles, but that was a SUPER egregious one!
https://compuverse.uk/c/gamedeals There is now ;)
Most of the mods that were infected were projects specifically designed to host the malware. From what I’ve read, only one legitimate user’s projects were affected, and like yourself, I’d never heard of the mods personally.
So, this is a dangerous bit of malware for sure, with the potential to spread quite badly, but so far I believe it’s had quite a limited reach due to not actually infecting anything super popular.
This situation is potentially a little overblown.
A very specific subset of mods were problematic.
The real worry is that the malware can automatically spread itself into all the other .jar files on your device!
CurseForge have a disinfection guide here: https://support.curseforge.com/en/support/solutions/articles/9000228509-june-2023-infected-mods-detection-tool/
So I highly recommend you give that a check through if you’ve downloaded anything from CurseForge recently.
I would like games to arrive as a single complete package, but I was relatively fond of expansion packs from games like RollerCoaster Tycoon.
They took the game you already had, and pretty much doubled it, they were fantastic!
Far better than any modern DLC for sure.