Infected with virus?

[ZuperGames]

I just bought this, and my antivirus (AVG) blocked it, it said it was infected with IDP.GENERIC. I never had this issue with any game I downloaded from Steam before. It might be a false positive, but you still have to fix it (report to AVG to investigate it, update the game, etc). I won't play it until it's 100% safe.

[phenir]

I know you're the kind of person that relies on AV but at least look around a bit before posting.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/548430/discussions/1/4629231101531919626/#c4629231101531941279

[magicISO Sweden]

its a classic false positive and why would they put any virus in this game ? plus AVG sucks thx to this always false positive on stuff

[magicISO Sweden]

https://www.reddit.com/r/antivirus/comments/finzew/idpgeneric_in_game_executable/ read in here its a false positive

[ZuperGames]

Thank you guys so much for your replies. I assumed you (the community) would say "it's a false positive", as I said in the original post. No game developer of a game with over 250k reviews would add a virus ON PURPOSE to their .exe file. This wouldn't be in their best interest. HOWEVER, there might be a good reason why the antivirus does detect that. It may be that some of the packages they included in the newer version does something questionable. Simply saying that they "there's nothing they can do" is just not true.

There are 2 options: install as many antiviruses and anti-malware as possible on the machine they use to build the final executable. Catch any weird repos/packages that do shady stuff and remove them from the final release. After that, they can send an OFFICIAL request to each antivirus company (including AVG which I have installed), they will thoroughly test the file again, and if it's all good, they will add the needed exception on THEIR servers, so regular users like you and me can run the game without any warning from the antivirus.

I'm asking for a lot, I KNOW. However, I did infect my computer a while ago (probably over 10 years ago) with a free game I downloaded directly from a small developer website, the antivirus did say it's infected, the developer of course said on the forums that its' a "false positive", but I ended up reinstalling Windows, even though a lot of other people said on the forums that "yeah, it's a false positive for sure". It wasn't. I learned my lesson by then, I won't risk it now with a game that I PAID for.

Thanks for understanding.

[Chibbity]

Uninstall your crappy malware "anti virus."

It's doing more harm than good.

[ZuperGames]

Originally posted by Chibbity:

Uninstall your crappy malware "anti virus."

It's doing more harm than good.

No, it's not. I have it for over 20 years. Never had a virus other than the exception mentioned above, when I simply listened to advice similar to yours and got my computer infected. There's plenty of times (well, maybe just once every few years, but still) it stopped malicious files that I would have personally missed otherwise.

Please people, stop defending behaviour like this: if a file is suspicions, let the developer fix the situation! Let them handle making sure the file is clean, then appeal to the the Anti-virus companies. It's THEIR job, for which, in this case, I PAID for. The developer's job is not only to develop the game, but to also make sure it's clean and safe, and do all the measures it takes, including appealing to the Antivirus companies after they make sure their file is virus-free.

But again, it MIGHT NOT be clean, did you ever consider that? I never said they added a virus on purpose, but without their knowledge, it's possible that they added a script that besides the main purpose, also connects to a foreign server sending who-knows what. This happened time and time again, even to the best of us! We all make mistakes, but we need to FIX them. And stop vetting for stuff you have no idea about!

[Chibbity]

No.

The problem isn't with the game.

It's with YOUR anti-virus, THEY need to fix their issue. It's a false positive, key word: False. There is nothing wrong with the file, the anti virus programs entire job is to sort good files from bad ones, if it's flagging a file FALSELY; then the issue is on their end.

[phenir]

Originally posted by ZuperGames:

Thank you guys so much for your replies. I assumed you (the community) would say "it's a false positive", as I said in the original post. No game developer of a game with over 250k reviews would add a virus ON PURPOSE to their .exe file. This wouldn't be in their best interest. HOWEVER, there might be a good reason why the antivirus does detect that. It may be that some of the packages they included in the newer version does something questionable. Simply saying that they "there's nothing they can do" is just not true.

The intent was to shame you into learning better forum etiquette by revealing there are other threads, not even 20 threads down on the same subject that you could have found if you used the search feature or even scrolled down or checked the second page, in which it is revealed that the developers do in fact know about this problem and probably are working on it, therefore your thread is unnecessary.

Originally posted by ZuperGames:

Originally posted by Chibbity:

Uninstall your crappy malware "anti virus."

It's doing more harm than good.

No, it's not. I have it for over 20 years. Never had a virus other than the exception mentioned above, when I simply listened to advice similar to yours and got my computer infected. There's plenty of times (well, maybe just once every few years, but still) it stopped malicious files that I would have personally missed otherwise.

Damn and here I am 20 years without anti virus and doing just fine. Maybe there's a problem between your keyboard and chair.

Originally posted by ZuperGames:

Please people, stop defending behaviour like this: if a file is suspicions, let the developer fix the situation! Let them handle making sure the file is clean, then appeal to the the Anti-virus companies. It's THEIR job, for which, in this case, I PAID for. The developer's job is not only to develop the game, but to also make sure it's clean and safe, and do all the measures it takes, including appealing to the Antivirus companies after they make sure their file is virus-free.

But again, it MIGHT NOT be clean, did you ever consider that? I never said they added a virus on purpose, but without their knowledge, it's possible that they added a script that besides the main purpose, also connects to a foreign server sending who-knows what. This happened time and time again, even to the best of us! We all make mistakes, but we need to FIX them. And stop vetting for stuff you have no idea about!

Lmao. Yeah, "oops I just accidentally made our software connect to a server we have nothing to do with" happens all the time. For all you know, they could have already appealed and it's the AV's fault, being slow to fix the false positive.

[ZuperGames]

Originally posted by phenir:

For all you know, they could have already appealed and it's the AV's fault, being slow to fix the false positive.

Nope, I actually know the developer's opinion, from their post on Reddit (I'm not sure if I can post the link), look it up, the post is named "[PSA] Some players cannot Launch the game after the latest patch on Steam - Solution inside!"

Their solution is to turn off the antivirus. Also, they say "Lastly, this is not an issue we have control over, so we cannot "fix" the false positive unfortunately."

The post is 17 days ago. It doesn't look to me like they are actively trying to fix it.

[Chibbity]

Originally posted by ZuperGames:

Their solution is to turn off the antivirus. Also, they say "Lastly, this is not an issue we have control over, so we cannot "fix" the false positive unfortunately."

Rofl..

Right, exactly, because the problem is with the anti-virus itself; and they are the ones who need to fix it.

The dev's have no power or control to fix your anti-virus software.

[ShugoTheRipper]

Decently common to get AV false detection on some games.

I had to go to flat Windows Defender after a third party AV was flagging my own compiled programs as Trojans. Or to be more accurate deleting my compiled program and not giving me the choice to not do that.

Originally posted by ZuperGames:

The post is 17 days ago. It doesn't look to me like they are actively trying to fix it.

There is nothing for the developers to fix.

[RENGOKU]

Originally posted by ShugoTheRipper:

Decently common to get AV false detection on some games.

I had to go to flat Windows Defender after a third party AV was flagging my own compiled programs as Trojans. Or to be more accurate deleting my compiled program and not giving me the choice to not do that.

Seems like everyone just sticks with the defender nowadays and be honest, the only time I ever use an Internet browser is to explore the nexus and check my mail.

[ShugoTheRipper]

Originally posted by RENGOKU:

Originally posted by ShugoTheRipper:

Decently common to get AV false detection on some games.

I had to go to flat Windows Defender after a third party AV was flagging my own compiled programs as Trojans. Or to be more accurate deleting my compiled program and not giving me the choice to not do that.

Seems like everyone just sticks with the defender nowadays and be honest, the only time I ever use an Internet browser is to explore the Nexxus and check my mail.

Defender tests at middle of the pack for detection. But usually fails most "rankings" because it is not packaged with 10,000 useless bloated features. There is no real point in getting a third party AV unless you want all those bloated features that run like crap.

After ditching Avira, my CPU benched 30-40% better in most synthetic benchmarks. The real time scanning of most third party virus software did nothing but waste CPU power and false flag everything.

Also Avira took ownership of my files so it basically behaves like a glorified root kit; to combat root kits. This broke a bunch of stuff upon removing it.

[Tyyne]

So don't play then. The game is not at fault here, it's your AV, just like others have said.

[Spirit]

F secure didnt even twitch ... and thats a proper antivir , if thats not reacting then your avg is simply useless data