PAYDAY 2

PAYDAY 2

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Above-Zero Jun 17, 2020 @ 9:27am
Payday 2 considered as spyware.
Hi, today when i fired up my Payday 2 after my pc booted, Malwarebytes considers it a "Spyware.Agent" and takes it instantly to quarentine. Now i don't know why it's behaving like this, i've been playing the game almost in a daily basis since forever, and only now, out of nowhere, it's considered a virus?
Oh, and it's not just the "payday2_win32_release" that is considered spyware, but also "payday2_win32_release_vr" (the VR Payday 2) and also the Payday: The Heist game launcher "payday_win32_release". Since i didn't wanted to delete and reinstall payday 2, i did it with the first game since it's smaller in size and as soon as it finished installing i examined it again and the same "spyware" result came up (from a fresh install, since i wanted to test if a virus did modified the executables and turn them into spyware).
The "last modified" tabs under Properties in each of the 3 files has the exact and respective dates of when they were installed, so i am skeptical as to it being infected by some other program. I also threw all 3 executables into VirusTotal and all of them, except for Payday: The Heist, which came out clean, had 1 engine detected, this one being Malwarebytes. One thing i find weird is that in VirusTotal, the first game doesn't show up with any results of infection, even from Malwarebytes, but in my Malwarebytes from my pc (which is updated) it indicates, again, as a Spyware.Agent.
I personally didn't believe it so i just opened an exception for all 3, but i really would like to know why and how, from one day to another, the game is considered a virus.

Either the game or the antivirus are ActinDum.
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Above-Zero Jun 17, 2020 @ 9:31am 
I forgot to mention that i have no mods installed in each game, and i did not download any in the past.
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Date Posted: Jun 17, 2020 @ 9:27am
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