A Goddess of Victory: NIKKE player says a separate antivirus scan found suspicious files after the game’s updated launcher check found nothing, raising a concern about whether some affected users could be getting a false sense of reassurance.
In a 5 November post, Japanese player and streamer @Sirousa_A0927 describes three checks that reportedly failed to flag a problem: searching the launcher’s debug.log for k2f_chan, running a full Windows scan, and launching the updated official client.
They then tried Malwarebytes. Their attached summary reports four detections labelled Trojan.Loader.K2F, with all four successfully quarantined. It identifies the NIKKE launcher’s cache as the location of the detected files. The player says a community-made checker also flagged something.
That is a report of a possible missed detection, rather than proof that the official scanner failed to identify an active infection. The attached summary itself cautions that finding a threat doesn’t conclusively connect it to this incident, and that results can vary between computers. It doesn’t provide enough technical evidence to establish whether these were active malware, cached files or remnants.
The report follows Level Infinite’s recovery notice, which introduced a detection and removal function in the official PC client. The publisher tells players to close running browsers before starting the check, with a removal prompt appearing if malicious software is detected.
The player’s account doesn’t establish whether every step was performed under those conditions, or whether the launcher and Malwarebytes were checking the same files.
As we previously reported, the publisher’s response also covers accounts used outside NIKKE. It recommends changing passwords for accounts used on the affected computer, using an unaffected device or waiting until the computer’s security check is complete.
For now, the new report warrants scrutiny of the checker’s scope. It doesn’t establish a failure rate, but it is a concrete account of conflicting results that goes beyond simply assuming a quiet scan means nothing was found anywhere.
