Is giajin malware?

[Kleptomania]

This happened twice. When you install crossout, It installs the launcher, then you have to install it on their launcher giving them your IP address (already sketchy). When I installed it on the launcher, Xfinity got several threats from different locations. When I did some lookin around there was geijin folders scattered through out my files. Does this happen to anyone else or just me?

[play4free123455]

I am going to look over mine again and I will get back to you with an answer for myself. But i have had games in the past that would Not let me remove a whole game Folder ,I literally had to rip through the Folder breaking up and deleting it in sections to eventually have it allow me to delete everything! I Hope this one is Not the same : /

[UCEY]

You might have a virus. I can't say if Crossout installed it though

[DivineEvil]

- You give your IP address to everything. Creating this thread, for example, requires you to give your IP address to Steam in order to transfer the written content to the servers to be then publically displayed here.
- "Threats" likely just come up because Gaijin account uses Torrent network to distribute game files on P2P basis, which most online security sees as fraudulent by default.
- Folders being "scattered through out your files" seem rather arbitrary. A lot of games have separate storage profiles, for example to stora save files separately to be kept safe if you uninstall the game, or roaming data folder to keep user-specific data separate from the game's framework, etc.

[RubyNips]

As a very long term player of Crossout i can confirm that sometimes this year my Malwarebyte antivirus started to block "trojans" after launching Crossout. It doesn happen every time, but sometimes its a multiple in the raw after i click launch.

- Is my computer infected? No.
- Does Malwarebyte flagging false positive? Not in my practice of using it for 5 years.
- Does antivirus stopping the game from launch? No, but it blocks the launcher from doing something shady.

Something to think about: Why it doesnt happen EVERY launch of the game, but only sometimes.

Cheers.

[Chaos]

Having your ip means absolutely nothing
any time you connect to any server, be it for multiplayer in any game, or any website: they get your ip.
or any peer to peer fileshare or matchmaking (like old call of duty? yeah you could log the IP's of all the users in the lobby if you were host.)

Your antivirus may have flagged it because crossout uses peer to peer filesharing for patching the game, and will automatically seed for other users. (like asking everyone in class for one answer to your homework, and then giving that sheet to the next class coming in after you are done getting all the results from your classmates) it does this so they dont need to pay for very expensive servers and instead rely on their userbase. more people wanting the files = more people sending the files. everyone wins(unless you have a low data cap, then turn off seeding).

[RubyNips]

Originally posted by ChaosRifle:

Having your ip means absolutely nothing
any time you connect to any server, be it for multiplayer in any game, or any website: they get your ip.
or any peer to peer fileshare or matchmaking (like old call of duty? yeah you could log the IP's of all the users in the lobby if you were host.)

Your antivirus may have flagged it because crossout uses peer to peer filesharing for patching the game, and will automatically seed for other users. (like asking everyone in class for one answer to your homework, and then giving that sheet to the next class coming in after you are done getting all the results from your classmates) it does this so they dont need to pay for very expensive servers and instead rely on their userbase. more people wanting the files = more people sending the files. everyone wins(unless you have a low data cap, then turn off seeding).

I assure you P2P is not an issue since i have multiple torrent clients and DL/UP at any given time. Once again my antivirus doesnt flag anything as "trojan" just because of file sharing.

[Kleptomania]

Originally posted by Puffin:

You might have a virus. I can't say if Crossout installed it though

the "threat" happened while I was installing crossout the first time and the second time

[Kleptomania]

Thx guys!

[UCEY]

Originally posted by The kraken:

Originally posted by Puffin:

You might have a virus. I can't say if Crossout installed it though

the "threat" happened while I was installing crossout the first time and the second time

Like what the other guys said, it uses methods that are identified as a threat but actually aren't. I wouldn't sweat it