Until Dawn include virus?

[Michu]

I bought Until Dawn on Steam. When download have start, antivirus which I’m using (G DATA INTERNET SECURITY) show message about virus in folder with this game.

wirus: Gen:Variant.Lazy.532972 (Scanner A)
File: crs-video.exe
Proces: crs-handler.exe

It seems strangely and I don’t think it’s possible to download game from Steam that include a virus. But I got a little bit confused. And I have a question. Does anyone have similar situation with this or any other game? Or maybe it’s fake alarm and I should just ignore that?

[RodroG]

It's a false positive case.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/2172010/discussions/0/4851030529133977008/

[MCNacho-ナチョ]

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/upload put the file in it annd see if it find something.

[ko]

There's no reason at all to use anything but Windows Defender which is built in, free and quite capable.

I haven't used 3rd party AV bloatware for a long, long time. Last thing I used was Avast over a decade ago, until it went from lightweight and good to being another bloated malware-like monstrosity.

[D I A B L O]

Maybe its data mining or scanning things it shouldn't be on your pc and your a.v is flagging it

Key word is Maybe

[.raw]

I'd guess that the crs-video.exe's function is to upload a small recording of the games last moments / seconds / whatever, before the game crashes. (probaböy also only if full data sharing is enabled in the settings.)
It either gets detected because they used SmartAssembly and your AV doesn't like new unknown obfuscated files. Or because it is setting up a internet connection for the video upload, behaving like a backdoor access from a virus (while also having obfuscated code that the AV can't really read).
Whatever it is, I am certain that it is not an actual virus and you can play/download without worries.

[NomNom]

Originally posted by ko:

There's no reason at all to use anything but Windows Defender which is built in, free and quite capable.

I haven't used 3rd party AV bloatware for a long, long time. Last thing I used was Avast over a decade ago, until it went from lightweight and good to being another bloated malware-like monstrosity.

^This.

Long ago, Windows Defender was awful before Windows 10. Since the release of Windows 10, Windows Defender has made other AVs obsolete, as it covers everything that you need for an anti-virus.

The only thing I despise about Windows Defender is its use of machine learning threat detection, which can spit out false positive threats. You can see any threats detected by machine learning by looking for "!ml" at the end of the threat name.

[Liv]

The only virus on your system is g-data internet security. It's obsolete, get rid of it.

[D I A B L O]

Originally posted by Liv:

The only virus on your system is g-data internet security. It's obsolete, get rid of it.

Man none of them flag up apps that try to be nosey on the system

Yet

[ShadowSkill11]

This is a case of PEBKAC and cheap AV software.