Can you get hacked through a game?

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MaggieSpencer

I was playing against a player and somehow my computer bugged out. The game reset as if I clicked "the beginning of play" button. No matter what I tried to push my keyboard was and mouse couldn't work. I refreshed my screen and each time it would show the game reversing back to the beginning. Then my screen started to zoom in and out on it's own. I was on a MAC and I unplugged my keyboard and then disconnected my mouse. Only then did it let me go back to the game and release the game from being stuck at beginning of play. It burned 5 minutes off my clock. My keyboard was also in a new configuration. Could it be possible for someone to send you malware from playing a game with them? Or was this complete happenstance it happened mid game and only affected Chess.com, my mouse, and keyboard.

justbefair
MaggieSpencer wrote:

I was playing against a player and somehow my computer bugged out. The game reset as if I clicked "the beginning of play" button. No matter what I tried to push my keyboard was and mouse couldn't work. I refreshed my screen and each time it would show the game reversing back to the beginning. Then my screen started to zoom in and out on it's own. I was on a MAC and I unplugged my keyboard and then disconnected my mouse. Only then did it let me go back to the game and release the game from being stuck at beginning of play. It burned 5 minutes off my clock. My keyboard was also in a new configuration. Could it be possible for someone to send you malware from playing a game with them? Or was this complete happenstance it happened mid game and only affected Chess.com, my mouse, and keyboard.

No. From what we know, each player connects separately to the server. There is no direct connection. Hence, no way for one to send malware to another.

jim5489
MaggieSpencer wrote:

I was playing against a player and somehow my computer bugged out. The game reset as if I clicked "the beginning of play" button. No matter what I tried to push my keyboard was and mouse couldn't work. I refreshed my screen and each time it would show the game reversing back to the beginning. Then my screen started to zoom in and out on it's own. I was on a MAC and I unplugged my keyboard and then disconnected my mouse. Only then did it let me go back to the game and release the game from being stuck at beginning of play. It burned 5 minutes off my clock. My keyboard was also in a new configuration. Could it be possible for someone to send you malware from playing a game with them? Or was this complete happenstance it happened mid game and only affected Chess.com, my mouse, and keyboard.

Maggie, this sounds like a temporary issue with your MAC as opposed to anything else. If I had to make an educated guess, I would say that your computer was reading a key or two as being pushed (even though you weren't pushing any keys). You said the game was always showing as back to the beginning, which could be anything. But when you said your screen was zooming in and out on its own, that only happens due to your computer "talking" to your keyboard or mouse and getting unintended information. After you shut down and came back on later, was the keyboard configuration still different or did it go back to the way should be?