[STEAM-DRM]heuristic virus

[evolution.400]

Norton found a heuristic virus which was connected to Gear City. I'm not trying to say this game is loaded with viruses, but I thought a heads up is needed. You may want to run a virus scan yourself to figure out what it is that is setting off my Virus Scanner.

[The Gaming Womble]

The thing there is that it's a heuristic virus...not a real one lol. VERY VERY often they are false positives....my KASPERSKY 2014 doesn't see anything and even another PC with Norton and GC on it will very likely not give a warning...it's basically a guess made by examining patterns within files....lots of games and videos cause them to happen.

[Eric.B]

Exactly what Hulk Hogan said, heuristic systems typically look for code patterns that are prevalent in viruses and if it believes that it is similar it marks it off. I suggest anytime you run into "Heuristic positives" to upload the file to virus total. Where it will be scanned with like 60 different virus scanners... https://www.virustotal.com/

If it makes you feel any better, the only windows computer I own is only connected to the Internet to upload files to steam or my svn. The rest of the time it is physically disconnected from the network. Everything else I do goes through my FreeBSD or Slackware machines. If I need to download a save game from you for example, I will download and extract the save game on my FreeBSD machine, then transfer it via USB to the windows computer. You can say I'm a security nut, but I don't trust anything Microsoft makes on a network sadly.

So take that with a grain of salt, and I'll upload the binary file to virustotal just in case. :)

*EDIT: Forgot to add, since we're not a big game, we fly under the radar of most antivirus software's whitelists. If you run into false positives please submit them to your AV vendor so that we can be added to their whitelists...

[The Gaming Womble]

Dude, I am horrified by your lack of respect for the mighty MS.....as an MCSE/MCDBA/blah/blah I am deeply upset and would take action if it weren't entirely true.....!!

[Eric.B]

So for giggles I ran Virus Total on GearCity.exe with Steam DRM and on GearCity.exe without Steam DRM.

With Steam DRM: https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/28d84273e0a8f40d98ac2a1671e9bca4911d9976f665b1a6b898a080ba3c4949/analysis/1406915120/

Without Steam DRM: https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/6c9cbed030ab2e1fe26f1440199138abf89071790e7accc7eddabca7e6aa122c/analysis/1406915848/

So it seem Norton thinks Steam DRM is a virus. Which makes sense because it kinda is. :)

[PEACEOFWAR]

lol :-) nice

[The Gaming Womble]

That's what I like to see a man who fiddles!!!