Recently, many eager gamers have fallen victim to a massively malicious scam that laid detriment onto their Windows PC computers. Reports are claiming that some PC gamers tried to download a "beta version" of the upcoming PC port of 'Grand Theft Auto V', only to be consumed by viruses and malware.

In fact, the victims of the scam downloaded roughly 19 GB worth of viruses and malware, which is fairly large, even for today's standards.

Since the Xbox One and PS4 versions of 'GTA V' launch on November 18, some gamers felt that a PC beta version made sense. However, the PC port of the game is not ready, as it's going to launch in January of 2015.

After news broke of all the infected PCs and the nonfunctional 'Grand Theft Auto V Beta' versions afloat, Rockstar made an official statement. They announced that they have not and do not intend to release a beta version of 'GTA 5' for the PC.

Rockstar's official announcement read, "Please Note: There is no pre-release 'Beta' test for Grand Theft Auto V. if you see ads or solicitations to join a beta program, beware as this is likely some type of online phishing scam."

To resolve this issue, and to prevent more computers from getting infected, Take-Two (Rockstar's publishers) took action against the scam websites.

Some have already been taken down, here's a list of some of the fraudulent websites: getgtavbeta.com, betagtav.com, gta5betacode.com and grandtheftauto5beta.com.

As it stands, the first two websites have been taken down, but some of these sites and others like it may still be at large.

What's worse is that some of the websites require the user to share the link to others over Facebook before they are allowed to download the malware.

Gamers should be wary of scams like this, and only adhere to official reports directly from game developer's and their websites.