Trojan Virus was detected when attempting to intall.

[tg10]

My virus protection software is preventing this game from installing on my computer because it is detecting a Trojan virus in the download process. The virus protection software details lists "Trojan.Trojan.WIN32.Generic."

[Nyerguds]

Then disable it. Virus scanners are paranoid as heck these days, and any warning on something "generic" in them pretty much always just means "I don't specifically know this program so I'm going to complain about it."

[andreasaspenberg575]

you should discuss that with EA, so that they can remove the virus.

[Nyerguds]

There is no virus, lmao. Just paranoid antivirus apps.

[andreasaspenberg575]

when it says that there is a virus there, there is a virus there. best course of action is to tell it to EA and not to troll.

[Nyerguds]

Originally posted by andreasaspenberg575:

when it says that there is a virus there, there is a virus there.

No, there really isn't. This isn't trolling. Virus scanners have loads of false positives, and very often just mark anything they don't know as "suspicious".

I've been doing tech support and fixing on these old games for over a decade, and it's been a real problem to release any tools to help people fix things because everything just gets marked as suspicious by these dumb things.

[Nemerlight]

There is nothing wrong with being careful. If your antivirus detects something it doesnt cost you ask around that being said trying to run older games on steam i do sometimes get such warnings. Usually i take my own advice and google to see if someone has similar issues.

[Nyerguds]

If there had indeed been a virus in a game of a big company such as EA, you'd definitely have seen more threads about it, yea.

[andreasaspenberg575]

it is only in the steam version, which was released recently.

[Nyerguds]

Originally posted by andreasaspenberg575:

it is only in the steam version, which was released recently.

The version on the EA app is the same; both got updated to the exact same content when the collection was released on Steam.

Just add an exception in your antivirus app

[Cray]

Hypothetical-theoretical:

* Game was updated to include some form of data mining in the bin bundle.
* It's some generic data miner that borders on purebred malware by definition.
* AVs pick up on it because it shows malware traits, or is already flagged via other, shady includers of said software.

Why I think it isn't implausible:

1) EA is evil (verified fact).
2) EA will do anything to squeeze a buck (verified fact).
3) Data mining is the new oil of the soulless (known market fact).
4) EA has no soul (proven fact).
5) It, like, makes total sense, man.

[Nyerguds]

What data would they even mine? Your in-game tactics? Steam already tracks everything else you do anyway