FicSit Mod Manager just gave me a virus WTF !

[evilweeja]

I just seen this Mod Manager being used on Youtube thought I'd goto FicSit mod manager site downloaded it installed as soon as I ran it my virus program quarantined a Trojan Virus .. WTF ????

[Yekkusu]

I used mods for a while and I'm pretty sure the only way to use mods on Satisfactory is with the Mod Manager. I use Kaspersky Antivirus (paid), and it never recognized the Mod Manager as a Trojan Virus, so there's three possibilities for you:

1 - It's a false positive, and you should check this file with other Anti Virus if possible.
2 -Your file was modified and it's a virus now.
3 - The current mod manager may use something that injects info inside the game that anti-virus recognize it as a Trojan Virus (which still is a False Positive, but in this case the team who made this manager should try to contact the Anti Virus team to explain this software is not meant to harm others computers. This happened with YS 9 Monstrum Nox during release, everyone was having to disable their anti-virus because it was deleting the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ eXE of the game XD. The team got really mad and had to go ask all of the Anti Virus team to add a patch that stopped recognizing that game as a virus xD).

Anyway, you should try to download another version of Mod Manager, always from a trustworty source, change your Anti Virus, especially if you're using one of those free Anti Viruses, those are the worst for false positive, and talk to people on forums like you're doing here so see if someone else is having the same issue as you.

[rednvss]

false positive most likely. update your virus definitions and rescan the quarantined file... and/or submit the mod manager app to your anti-virus vendor and let them reverse engineer it. I have not had any issues with my mod manager install and not read of any one else on the discord

[Vectorspace]

Where did you download the mod manager from? The modding homepage is https://ficsit.app/ , I would not recommend downloading it from anywhere else

[Lil Puppy]

Almost all mods for most games are injection type mods, this shows up in Anti-virus as a trojan false positive because that's how trojans work.
If you downloaded the mod manager from the official site ficsit.app then you're clean and your antivirus simply false positived.

[Khirareq]

Also - What virus program are you using?

[Soylent_Boob]

What people above allready said but just to be clear: mod manager is not required to play satisfactory modded, it is just recommended, for its ease of use.
What is required is just the SML files and the mods in their proper folders to play manual modded instead of the manager

[evilweeja]

Originally posted by Vectorspace:

Where did you download the mod manager from? The modding homepage is https://ficsit.app/ , I would not recommend downloading it from anywhere else

Yes downloaded the program from ficsit app website ..

[evilweeja]

Originally posted by Khirareq:

Also - What virus program are you using?

Im using McAfee LiveSafe

[Wolfgang]

Well, my McAfee didn't go off on that. But it is very likely a false positive.

[evilweeja]

Will give it another go .. thankyou everyone for your comments appreciated !