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The original Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has shut down its servers to prevent the spread of what is widely thought to be a malware attack.\n<\/p>\n

Not to be confused with the more contemporary 2023 game of the same name which runs on different servers and remains unaffected, Activision was forced to take the 2009 version offline on Steam whilst it “investigated reports of an issue”.\n<\/p>\n

Although Activision hasn’t confirmed what the alleged “issue” is, players believe it is connected to a post shared on the game’s Steam forums back in June<\/a> that warned players to run an antivirus scan, positing that a trojan was being spread almost players “using hacked lobbies”.\n<\/p>\n

Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – eurogamer.net<\/p>\n

All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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