Just sharing this PSA because a lot of us building / maintaining PCs for flight sim use popular hardware monitoring software.
It appears from reporting today by various outlets including Igor’s Lab and others on Youtube, that the official download for HWMonitor v1.63 on the CPUID web page includes embeded malware.
It appears this is recent (today), and previous versions are fine, but I haven’t investigated myself. I suspect that it’s not the software that is infected, but the website, which seems to redirect the download link to another set of files. I’m sure we will learn more from hardware news outlets in the coming days.
Note, this is not to be confused with “HWInfo” or HWInfo64", which is a completely different developer.
Edit - it appears CPU-Z may also be affected. Stay tuned.