What the heck is the Gaijin.net Aget?

[Pastor⛧Biden]

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[ShadowSutekh]

"Gaijin.net Agent" is the background updater for the WT client.

[Botboy3]

Yeah I disabled auto-update and check for updates but it still runs in the backround.

[+rep Vollidiot]

Publicado originalmente por Botboy3:

Yeah I disabled auto-update and check for updates but it still runs in the backround.

u have to delete it 2 times 1 time in the warthunder folder and 1 time in %appdata% folder now its gone and i dont see anyproblem till now

EDIT: and its back again ffs

[relliK]

Publicado originalmente por ssg.nattyice 🚀:

I quarantined it with my anti-virus and that fixed it. My AV identified as Russian spyware, go figure.

'russian' spyware even ^o^ good one 8D
at least one cannot say that the community isn't creative hehe

...but on a more serious note - maybe you should replace your free noname av software with a proper one (or learn about the detection routines and how they work ;)

[+rep Vollidiot]

Publicado originalmente por relliK:

Publicado originalmente por ssg.nattyice 🚀:

I quarantined it with my anti-virus and that fixed it. My AV identified as Russian spyware, go figure.

'russian' spyware even ^o^ good one 8D
at least one cannot say that the community isn't creative hehe

...but on a more serious note - maybe you should replace your free noname av software with a proper one (or learn about the detection routines and how they work ;)

lmao u should trust a company but if they gonna stuff like this meh ..

[relliK]

Publicado originalmente por GiL Brother:

why they do an updater if the launcher already do this?

a) because many players that only play the game occasionally have complained about everytime they want to have a quick game the launcher first needs to update the game (which takes quite a time for some) - with the updater running they will pretty much always have an up-to-date game and hop into action right away

b) most likely the updater will not only keep War Thunder up-to-date but other games distributed by Gaijin as well (e.g. Crossout, Star Conflict, Enlisted, Crossout...) - if not now then maybe in the future.

- just some ideas though ^^ not officially confirmed ofc -

[relliK]

Publicado originalmente por DoctorPresidentPope:

Publicado originalmente por ShadowSutekh:

"Gaijin.net Agent" is the background updater for the WT client.

Are there guides to removing it?

yes... but since it's more easy to just disable it (launcher -> launcher settings (wrench icon in the top right corner) -> uncheck 'auto updates') there is no need to remove it. (it will get re-installed on the next launcher update anyway)

[relliK]

Publicado originalmente por Piggy:

Gotta love how gaijin was called out and suddenly no mods are replying to this post

why should they ? people are voicing their opinions and concerns but dont violate any rules - there is no need for mods to be present... (oh and i guess some of them also got better things to do around christmas ^^ you know, family stuff and such crazy things 8D)

[relliK]

Publicado originalmente por Ahhtaczy:

My Avast has uninstalled itself, I think it is linked to this program. Was here before they made us install that "self updater".

using Avast myself... all good...

[relliK]

Publicado originalmente por (東方) Zindai:

why would you remove it? does it do something bad i am not aware of?

the worst thing i can possibly think of is that while you are playing the game it's starting the launcher because there is a new game update available - now usually when the launcher is updating the game it will automatically close the game client ^^

might be a 'tad' inconvenient if this happens 8D though i dont know if this actually happens or if there are any 'checks' implemented to prevent this from happening (maybe you'll get a notification in-game instead... who knows)

[Lord Arcturus]

Publicado originalmente por ShadowSutekh:

"Gaijin.net Agent" is the background updater for the WT client.

Answered, locked.

Please do not spread misinformation regarding this topic (Gaijinnet Agent), thank you.