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strange and possibly malicious error suddenly appears?

I recently opened roblox studio and was disturbed to find an error:

???.................................Info...........?............

this appeared right when the studio opened. the question symbol immediately tells me there is a lua virus at work, but I dont understand how I may or may not have got one as I script everything by myself.
heres the entire list of errors in the output:

21:21:01.363 - Image "https://assetgame.roblox.com/asset/?id=99666917" failed to load in "TextureManager::PreloadTexture": Failed to resolve texture format | ff fb 90 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 49 6e 66 6f 00 00 00 0f 00 00 00 0b 00 00 13 96 00 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 2e 2e ???.................................Info...........?............ 21:21:01.395 - ContentProvider:PreloadAsync() failed for rbxassetid://99666917

can someone please tell me what this is and how this happened? im afraid to find something malicious in my game.

the error will not go away after restarting the studio.

7 comments

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have you tried redownloading studio

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I would perfer not to do do that unless its absolutely necessary. but what is this error? is it serious enough that I have to reinstall the studio?

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"lua virus" lol

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can someone who is serious about helping explain things a little better? yes, Im aware what a lua virus is, no, I do not use free models, this error appears on every save I have so its either roblox or me. it would be helpful If someone could at least tell me which one it is.

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There is no such thing as a "Lua virus." There might be a virus written in Lua, but there is certainly no such thing as a "Lua virus."

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Viruses only cause lag. You do not have a virus. I recommend reinstalling.

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By virus I mean a virus from a free model.

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I think it might be Roblox Studio itself. Roblox studio might have been infected by another one of your applications. Try to check your files on your computer, and if you see malicious software, download an antivirus to ensure that it is deleted for good. Roblox sometimes gets kinda glitchy for me and will malfunction. If there are no viruses on your computer and your Roblox studio is up to date and reinstalled, everything should most likely be working properly. If not, you need to get your computer checked by an expert. Sincerely, Dominus (I upvoted your question)

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Trying to get him to accept your answer through bribery is against the rules of the website.

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Saying (I upvoted your question) at the end of your answer is clearly an attempt at bribery and could be considered "rep manipulation" due to the fact that you are manipulating rep in order to gain more through bribery.

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