The .exe file is tripping up my antivirus...

[BlueMichelle]

Just an alert- my antivirus just pinged and deleted project_starship.exe because it thinks it's something called "trojan-dropper.Win32.Dapato.qonr". You might want to check it out and get that handled.

I'm using Kaspersky.

[Matt.o]

Hey JaysonFour,
thanks for reporting.
Project Starship 1 is an old game maker studio game. Fake virus detection is something that can happen with that engine. At least that's what I've heard.
Or maybe it's because it uses an external website for leaderboard handling, but to be honest I don't really know.
I've wrote the code of this game like 6/7 years ago, in the most spaghetti way possible, so it's really kinda difficult to navigate it.
If the game was truly a virus, you'd have Steam on your side. I think you can stay safe and restore the game executable (Unless it got infected by a virus already present on your computer. A full virus scan will hopefully solve everything ).

[BlueMichelle]

I figure it's a false positive, and it's not the first time this has happened on one of my Steam games. But it still might be worth chucking it at VirusTotal or something to be scanned so it stops getting flagged- it just kind of startled me when it happened, and it's always an .exe file on this kind of thing.

But thanks for the response!