Crunchyroll is back online after a malware attack

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Visitors to anime streaming service Crunchyroll were greeted with a prompt to download malware this morning, prompting the site’s owners to take it offline while they resolved the issue. After going down for several hours, the site has resolved the issue and is now back online.

The site’s official Twitter feed sent out a warning just after 9 AM this morning, warning people not to access the site, and said that they were working to resolve the problem.

According to Kotaku, users were prompted to install a file called CrunchyViewer.exe, which contained…

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