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So... AVG thinks the game is a virus...


Aaron Ibarra

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Actually, while AVG is an adequate antivirus, that is why I stopped using it myself. It is a bit over sensitive. Not the best for gaming IMHO. Actually, I've recently been looking for a good free gaming AV program myself. I could suggest an AV or two, but with so many differences there are a hundred reasons to like/hate any given AV.

Huer as in heuristic. Its trying to detect previously unfound viruses based on its behavior. Hence the false positive. I have no idea exactly what it is that AVG dislikes about the program, but I wouldn't worry about it. It could be something as simple as the game creating registry keys or deleting files from particular folders..etc. It really depends on what rules AVG created, which without knowing how they wrote it or why.. could be anything. If they wanted they could write a rule that says any file that doesn't begin with a letter gets flagged if they wanted to. (I highly doubt they would of course). Typically a great many anti viruses would flag it over time if it was an issue. If you're unsure about a file I like to try sites like virustotal.com that use more than 50 AV engines to scan an item. Many of them will also note the first time they have seen a particular file and how long since it was last scanned.

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http://r.virscan.org/report/418b4803ffbc4947d5fecdfaaf90f2c9
https://www.metascan-online.com/#!/results/file/099c8884f9a442a7965295739795ea3b/regular
https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/4d7a8bba81339d18759f51b3506177a9c0e81ac446a27d353a72fae4f3584201/analysis/1438729260/
https://virusscan.jotti.org/en-US/filescanjob/lnrz5drlck


AVG does detect it, but McAfee, Norton and Avast do not from what I can tell.
(VirusTotal / Norton does technically detect it, but thats a reputation vote, NOT a scanner detection)


If you look through different sites with multi scanners, you'll normally see less than 10% of them classify it as 'bad'.
Most classify it as generic.
Some as a 'potentially unwanted application/program'.

None of them outright flip out, start tossing red lights and screaming skynet though...

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