Flight Sim Labs’ ‘Heavy Handed’ Anti-Piracy Tactics Raise Hackles
Software developer Flight Sim Labs is in hot water after acknowledging that it installed a password harvester for the Google Chrome browser in its flight simulator product. The company explained it was only targeting pirate users of its software, but critics are calling the tactics “dirty”.
The issue came to a head on Sunday when a Reddit user said that after downloading Flight Sim Labs’ Airbus A320-X add-on package for a their desktop flight simulator software, the add-on was “flagged up by various antivirus products” as malicious.
Flight Sim Labs makes premium add-ons for Microsoft Flight Simulator X and Lockheed Martin’s Prepar3D software with prices starting at around $100 each.
