A recent email was sent out from [email protected].
It is a scam, and was not sent from us. Please disregard the email. If you did open the page, I highly suggest you scan your computer immediately.
Kaspersky is known to find the virus coming from the page, as well as Microsoft Security Essentials.
Also, open up your task manager, and search for 'cernel.exe' and kill the process.
You'll find the downloaded exe in C:/Users/<your username>/AppData/Local/Temp/cernel.exe
I do apologize for the intrusion attempt. (I take responsibility for this one, I wasn't quite fast enough to load the virus in a sandbox earlier)
If you have any other questions, please don't hesitate to ask.
Additional info:
The IP address who took advantage of our system has been banned. (Unfortunately, a little too slow)
Other measures have been put in place to avoid this happening again in the future.
We are NOT affiliated with the website mentioned in the email. If you want to play the REAL game, you may visit www.minecraft.net to play. (Yes, it's legit. And yes, it requires Java.)
Prevention & Deletion:
Remove the cernel.exe from your /AppData/*/Temp folders.
Remove the 'SYS' folder from C:/Users/<Your username>/ folder. (It only contains cernel.exe)
Start -> Run -> msconfig -> Startup Tab -> Untick 'AARC' and any other startup items that show 'cernel.exe' in the Command location.
Last notes:
Just because I found it funny. The 'virus' is a VB.NET application.