Fledgling Fyora Greywolf Posted November 8, 2005 Share Posted November 8, 2005 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Articulate Vlish Arcane Cossack Posted November 8, 2005 Share Posted November 8, 2005 Really? It's odd that nobody else has found this. What's the trojan's particular name? What virus scanner did you use? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Aran Posted November 8, 2005 Share Posted November 8, 2005 The makers of Fox News are trying to control your mind. There is a secret mindwave radar in Area 51 that is broadcasting subliminal messages. Do not turn on your Television, or watch these channels. Do so at the risk of becoming a mindless, drooling slave at the hands of the right-wing media and the communists. ONLY WEARING A HAT MADE OF TINFOIL WRAP WILL PROTECT YOU. ... Alternatively, it might just be a bug in the Antivirus software. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted November 8, 2005 Share Posted November 8, 2005 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody Joseph Stalin Posted November 8, 2005 Share Posted November 8, 2005 yes take my anti virus for example its paranoid virtually anything is a trojan to it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Articulate Vlish Arcane Cossack Posted November 8, 2005 Share Posted November 8, 2005 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!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody Joseph Stalin Posted November 9, 2005 Share Posted November 9, 2005 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Spidweb Posted November 9, 2005 Share Posted November 9, 2005 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Articulate Vlish Arcane Cossack Posted November 9, 2005 Share Posted November 9, 2005 Quote: Originally written by Spidweb: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. That may be my favorite quote I've seen on these boards so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody dareva Posted November 9, 2005 Share Posted November 9, 2005 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ineffable Wingbolt Eldibs Posted November 9, 2005 Share Posted November 9, 2005 My AVG didn't pick it up either. Perhaps there is some sensitivity setting somewhere that's causing it to be evil. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody Joseph Stalin Posted November 9, 2005 Share Posted November 9, 2005 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unflappable Drayk John S Posted November 9, 2005 Share Posted November 9, 2005 Well, you update AVG regularly. I hope you've learned something from all this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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