Trojan horse in Geneforge 3 demo
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Apprentice
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written Tuesday, November 8 2005 12:58
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There is a trojan horse in your Geneforge 3 download. Please do not download this file and even less run it. Run it at your own risk of having your computer taken over by someone else. Posts: 1 | Registered: Tuesday, November 8 2005 08:00 |
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Apprentice
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written Tuesday, November 8 2005 13:38
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Really? It's odd that nobody else has found this. What's the trojan's particular name? What virus scanner did you use? Posts: 32 | Registered: Saturday, March 26 2005 08:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Tuesday, November 8 2005 14:16
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written Tuesday, November 8 2005 15:16
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It is possible that what you say is true. It is far, far more likely that your antivirus software is possessed by the Devil. I recommend calling an exorcist at your earliest convenience. On a more serious note, antivirus software has a tendency to flag anything remotely suspicious as potential malicious activity, even when it's actually completely innocent. [ Tuesday, November 08, 2005 15:17: Message edited by: Explode Thuryl Now ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Tuesday, November 8 2005 16:09
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yes take my anti virus for example its paranoid virtually anything is a trojan to it -------------------- George Bush is a Nazi - Eric Cartmen I'm not as think you stoned I am Visit the RIFQ Forums Posts: 462 | Registered: Tuesday, June 21 2005 07:00 |
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Apprentice
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written Tuesday, November 8 2005 16:54
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Norton, I believe it is, finds both of my trainers as trojans. Because they can memory edit. Heck, I'm expecting it to find EVERYTHING as a trojan soon. "Explorer.exe is a trojan! It can edit YOUR COMPUTER!" Posts: 32 | Registered: Saturday, March 26 2005 08:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Tuesday, November 8 2005 17:35
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speaking of geneforge 3 can someone send me the demo through yahoo messenger my name is x_DarkCrusader_x and im on at the moment -------------------- George Bush is a Nazi - Eric Cartmen I'm not as think you stoned I am Visit the RIFQ Forums Posts: 462 | Registered: Tuesday, June 21 2005 07:00 |
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Board Administrator
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written Tuesday, November 8 2005 23:11
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Problems with AVG Antivirus by Grisoft We have recently been unhappy to find that the AVG Antivirus problem has a bug which causes it to report that installers of our games contain a Trojan Horse. We have checked our programs, and they are currently completely safe and virus-free. (And, if you run a different antivirus program on them, you will find that they have no problems.) We are working hard to try to get AVG Antivirus to fix this flaw in their software. In the meantime, it will only allow you to install our games if you disable it first. We are sorry for the inconvenience. At this point, the only good workaround we can give for this problem is to switch to antivirus software that is not buggy. Many apologies while we try to get them to fix the problem. In the meantime, if you wish to report this problem to them directly, their support page is at http://www.grisoft.com/doc/51/lng/us/tpl/tpl01 and Grisoft's phone number is 973-218-0688. -------------------- Official Board Admin spidweb@spiderwebsoftware.com Posts: 960 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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Apprentice
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written Wednesday, November 9 2005 07:18
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quote:That may be my favorite quote I've seen on these boards so far. Posts: 32 | Registered: Saturday, March 26 2005 08:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Wednesday, November 9 2005 10:09
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That is a puzzling problem, especially as it isn't happening to everyone who has AVG. I run it and it didn't mind my installing Geneforge 3 at all. Maybe it's trying to preserve your spare time? Posts: 437 | Registered: Sunday, July 13 2003 07:00 |
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Lifecrafter
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written Wednesday, November 9 2005 10:48
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My AVG didn't pick it up either. Perhaps there is some sensitivity setting somewhere that's causing it to be evil. -------------------- "We can learn a lot from crayons. Some are short, some are dull, some are sharp, some are tall. Some have funny names and they are all different colors, but they all learn to live in the same box." "Happy is the man that has wisdom and gets discernment. For having wisdom as gain is better than having silver as gain and having wisdom as produce is better than gold itself" Proverbs 3:14-3:15 The horrible part about life is, you'll never get out of it alive. Currently boycotting: AngelFire, GameFAQ's, Macintosh PC's Posts: 818 | Registered: Tuesday, July 9 2002 07:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Wednesday, November 9 2005 12:08
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all i did to avg was install it and update it regurly i havent changed any settings but when i shut it off games will download and install from spidweb which is wierd cus it never used to prevent me or anyone else from getting stuff off of spidweb -------------------- George Bush is a Nazi - Eric Cartmen I'm not as think you stoned I am Visit the RIFQ Forums Posts: 462 | Registered: Tuesday, June 21 2005 07:00 |
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Agent
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written Wednesday, November 9 2005 15:03
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Well, you update AVG regularly. I hope you've learned something from all this. :P -------------------- quote: Posts: 1115 | Registered: Sunday, May 15 2005 07:00 |