I'm going to try to post a couple more skins this week. Does anyone have any active Discord groups for skinners, that can provide feedback? Feel free to add me: Michaelscott#0762
But Irish! The Sun/Avast/Reddit said it's real! No, no, no. Every single one of those sources is basing their info on a single post from Avast. The post (From Avast) in question had very little research, and it quoted none of their sources. What does that tell you? That this is a big, overly dramatised mess.
The "hack" in question is a snippet of code that has been embedded into a .png. It is not some Trojan Horse or Kill Switch, and to make things even funnier: Minecraft can't even run the code. That's right, to run the hack, you would need to download another piece of software. So even if for some strange reason you do get a hacked skin (Unlikely), then you won't even get hacked.
Anyway, this mess is over. Mojang has patched their system, so your skins and meme folders are safe. You can all stop fear mongering now.
There are currently 34 people in my discord. It is very casual, we talk about skinning and whatever else we want! There are lots of great skinners in the group, and even 7 planet minecraft staff members. You can come on and get a custom role and color too, this is just a fun place to talk. If you are interested, you can go here to see who is online, and to join:
Edit: Updated the invite link. Edit 2: Updated the invite link again.
I started a discord server yesterday for skinning and pixel art. You can talk about whatever you want to in the main room too! Here is the invite if you are interested: https://discord.gg/dxpWkaE