Malware?

[Robonos]

Has anyone checked if the game has potential malware like viruses or miners?

[Vermilion]

pretty sus when i close the game on the steam app the game show "still playing" and the if i force to close it just keep on "Closing"

[TheLimeyDragon]

Files uploaded to Steam/Valve are scanned by Valve/Steam itself before they are downloadable by the Public.

Now of course that doesn't mean software uploaded isn't a buggy mess with security holes.. but the initial threat of malware\miners is pretty low.

[Robonos]

Originally posted by TheLimeyDragon:

Files uploaded to Steam/Valve are scanned by Valve/Steam itself before they are downloadable by the Public.

Now of course that doesn't mean software uploaded isn't a buggy mess with security holes.. but the initial threat of malware\miners is pretty low.

Not so long ago a game had malware on it and it went under Steam's radar. [www.bitdefender.com]

[Syre]

Originally posted by Robonos:

Not so long ago a game had malware on it and it went under Steam's radar.

Wasn't this because the malware came with an update after the game got released? .. Perhaps I got it wrong.

[Zordik]

I downloaded the game through my Virtual Machine in case somethings wrong, surprised I got this: https://images.steamusercontent.com/ugc/14178999859871877/0907053815D70EE0231FC396E4A7D5C10D08750B/

[TheLimeyDragon]

Originally posted by Robonos:

Originally posted by TheLimeyDragon:

Files uploaded to Steam/Valve are scanned by Valve/Steam itself before they are downloadable by the Public.

Now of course that doesn't mean software uploaded isn't a buggy mess with security holes.. but the initial threat of malware\miners is pretty low.

Not so long ago a game had malware on it and it went under Steam's radar. [www.bitdefender.com]

I didn't say it was impossible, I just said the risk was low. My understanding of the game you posted, only 1 Virus scanner initially detected it, which is a problem for any new viruses. So yes, you are right someone CAN make a brand new virus that is not detected by anything, so if you really want to make sure nothing dodgy is going on.. all you can do is wait a few weeks and see if anything happens. Even then you don't know if some future update slips something dodgy in later.

[robinP☆]

Originally posted by Zordik:

I downloaded the game through my Virtual Machine in case somethings wrong, surprised I got this: https://images.steamusercontent.com/ugc/14178999859871877/0907053815D70EE0231FC396E4A7D5C10D08750B/

This could be VM related. Not saying this isn't potentially harmful, but yeah, could be entirely related to the VM. I was also pretty suspicious of this game considering the devs origins (literally no games on Steam prior).

Here's the devs steam page: https://steamcommunity.com/id/lucid11interactive (their friends are public, you can see likely other devs too.) They are from Turkey perhaps? Not sure.

Here is the publishers website: https://gamedev.ist/en/ -- they've covered other games that are relatively large indie hits and ultimately prove that this game is pretty unlikely to be some kinda weird scam. Still cannot be certain so I'll wait until more people play it lol.

[Zordik]

It's very important to play applications first in virtual machines, so your PC won't get virus or something. This is crucial for anyone. Well, good luck playing, I'm not confident to play this since these task never came out in any other application that i tested.

[Tag365]

Apparently some malware can break out of virtual machines and on to the host machine. It's not a foolproof mechanism but it can stop some malware.

[Zordik]

This can only happen if you use integrated files communication, otherwise, no malware can infect host/local machine through VMs.

[bel57]

Originally posted by Vermilion:

pretty sus when i close the game on the steam app the game show "still playing" and the if i force to close it just keep on "Closing"

It's because the game doesn't close properly for some reason. Even trying to stop the task doesn't work, have to force exit via Steam.

[Bradley]

No results show up in any anti-virus that I've tried, but there seems to be a bad memory leak that was caused after installing the game. Windows Memory Diagnostic tool didn't give me any results to work with and I have already uninstalled the game. Does anyone have any idea for how to fix the memory leak issue on Windows 11?