This page answers the questions we hear most: who is behind Prestige, what the software does on your computer, why some antivirus tools flag it, and what data we handle. It is intentionally direct — if something here doesn't answer your concern, ask us in our Discord server and we will answer publicly.
Prestige is developed and sold by Prestige Software Development, a business registered in the
Netherlands with the Chamber of Commerce (Kamer van Koophandel) under number 98021354.
Contact: [email protected] — or via a support ticket in our Discord server.
We are a registered, tax-paying business — not an anonymous reseller. Our payment processing is
handled by Stripe, PayPal, and OxaPay; we never see or store your card details.
Prestige is a Minecraft client modification. To provide its features it runs code inside the game
process (this is what “injection” means) and reads game state from memory while you play.
That is the full extent of what it touches.
The software never:
• reads your files, documents, browser data, or saved passwords
• installs drivers, services, startup entries, or anything that persists after you close it
• mines cryptocurrency or uses your hardware for anything but the game
• sends your chat messages, screenshots, or gameplay anywhere
• modifies Windows or any application other than the game you launched
When you close the game (or use the built-in self-destruct), nothing remains running. The only files
on your disk are the ones you downloaded yourself and your own configs.
Two reasons, both expected for software like ours:
• Heuristics. Injecting into a game process and protecting our code with obfuscation
(Code Virtualizer / Themida) looks, to a heuristic engine, similar to how actual malware hides.
Legitimate game tools trip these detections constantly — it is a category problem, not a
Prestige problem.
• Policy detections. Some vendors flag any game cheat as “PUA” (potentially
unwanted application) or “hacktool” by policy. No amount of clean code changes that label.
What we do about it: our binaries carry full publisher metadata, we are rolling out an
Authenticode code-signing certificate issued to our registered business (once issued, Windows
SmartScreen stops showing the “unknown publisher” warning), and we submit false positives
to antivirus vendors for whitelisting as they appear. If your vendor flags a Prestige file, send us
the detection name — we handle vendor submissions directly.
• Account data: your username, email, and a hashed password.
• Hardware fingerprint: a set of hashed hardware identifiers, used solely to enforce the
one-PC-per-license rule. We store hashes, not raw serial numbers.
• Crash reports (only if the client crashes): your username, the client version, and the
crash reason. Nothing else leaves your machine — no screens, no files, no logs of what you do
in game.
• Payments: processed entirely by Stripe, PayPal, or OxaPay. Card and wallet details
never touch our servers.
Our full privacy policy, including Discord bot data handling, is part of our
Terms of Service.
All traffic between the client and our servers is encrypted in transit. License keys are generated with a cryptographically secure random generator. We do not sell, rent, or share your personal data with third parties.
You may request a copy of your personal data, or its deletion, at any time by opening a support ticket in our Discord server or contacting us via the website. Deleting your data ends your license, since the account is the license.
Only ever download Prestige software from your dashboard at prestigeclient.vip. We do not distribute through file-hosting sites, Discord attachments, or resellers. If you got a “Prestige” file from anywhere else, it is not from us — delete it. Files claiming to be “cracked Prestige” are the most common real malware vector in this space; they are also the source of most “Prestige is a virus” stories.
In July 2026 our domain was temporarily flagged after a false malware report; we appealed through Cloudflare's official channel and the flag was lifted. If we ever have a genuine security incident affecting user data, we will disclose it in our Discord server and on this page.
Security concerns, vendor detections, data requests: [email protected] or a ticket in our Discord server. We answer security reports personally.