FYI to new players FAF and LOUD mods give your pc malaware

[Sephiroth]

This is just a helpful post in response to the dangerous posts I see about people suggesting to download those.
The downloads will 100% give your pc malaware you will see the warning from your pc when you click on them.
Look at all the permissions you are giving to these mods. This is essentially exposing your entire pc and everything you do online to criminals that create the malaware.

[Red Spot]

Nguyên văn bởi Ceejay:

As you are the one doing the accusing, where is your proof?

If you read his last post, it is actually him asking for proof if you deny his claim. That alone should say enough. Wanna make a claim, fine, provide proof or accept people will take you for a fool. (aiming at OP, not you CJ)

[Dustreaper]

O noo my anti virus says it's a virus it must be true... Like if you believe that your ignorant a lot of things (not these) require certain code that can be malicious but isn't. but to say a platform of 10 of thousand if not more is just a giant virus...... i don't know what to say to you but go to the doctor...

[thecore]

Here is the github repository https://github.com/FAForever, please show where the malicious code is.

[VulcanTourist]

Nguyên văn bởi Lichdom:

Nguyên văn bởi Cocodoo:

Unhelpful post. Biased comment. False statement.

Where is your proof?

Any player can find my proof when they click the download for these malicious downloads and when they take a look at what permissions they are freely giving away to possible criminals.

That proof doesn't exist. I downloaded LOUD recently from ModDB without any issue. What "permissions" are you babbling about? It's not an Android app on your phone, nor does it require any special Windows NTFS file permissions.

The malware is YOU. Your ignorance is making you see ghosts when there are none. Days later you have yet to prove the existence of your ghost with a screenshot or any kind of SPECIFICS at all. Worst of all, you'd prefer to remain ignorant rather than learn and join the adults in the room. Willful ignorance is stupidity.... or trolling.

[Brebs]

gr8 b8

[VulcanTourist]

Nguyên văn bởi Brebs:

gr8 b8

Do you just like the sound of your own typing? This contributes nothing.

[Brebs]

Nguyên văn bởi VulcanTourist:

Nguyên văn bởi Brebs:

gr8 b8

Do you just like the sound of your own typing? This contributes nothing.

I have a mechanical keyboard, what do you think ;)

[Gasboy]

Nguyên văn bởi Lichdom:

Nguyên văn bởi Cocodoo:

Unhelpful post. Biased comment. False statement.

Where is your proof?

Any player can find my proof when they click the download for these malicious downloads and when they take a look at what permissions they are freely giving away to possible criminals.

Where is your proof? If there /is/ malware, why are you suggesting people download it to find out? Obviously you've taken screenshots, right?

FAF and LOUD have been around for ages, and are stable, non-malware programs.

You have obviously gotten a false positive from your anti-virus or anti-malware programs. Or you have downloaded an obviously fake mod from an unsafe website. Either way, you are incorrect, FAF and LOUD do not install malware or viruses.

[Fanatical Meat]

Crap post and run, I give OP credit for at least giving vague replies but overall a crap post. No evidence, no reason why they are malware and honestly think about it how many downloads do FAF or Loud get? Why bother making malware in something that rarely gets installed.

[Amun-Ra The Radiant]

It’s not Malware but it’s not like the Administration of FAF actually plays the game or actually enjoy it anymore.

They spend most of their time on the Discord working on the project. Creating such an ambitious project with absolutely no end goal in sight other than cranking away the servers and dropping irregular balance patches here and there.

And it’s like they follow such rigid and rigorous bureaucracy. It’s beyond comprehension. Especially when none of the FAF Councilors really find passion in enjoying FAF as a hobby anymore. It’s a job. Right now they are fighting tooth and nail over this FAF election on the FAF servers.

By god the worst part is the narcissistic cult-like nature. FAF owns both subreddits r/supremecommander, and r/FAF. As well as their own forums plus discord servers. Et cetera et cetera.

I remember when I had to fight the moderation team to get a Forged Alliance Flair for the subreddit. If that’s not ridiculous I don’t know what is.

On top of which there’s still a healthy player base that plays all 3 games without FAF’s help yet none of these egotistical brats can comprehend that.

My god their only solution is to tell you to play FAF on the subreddit and their only thought process is that if you don’t play FAF than you must be the biggest idiot in the world.

This is on top of which if you follow their advice and join FAF. (To get more multiplayer players)

No one is on anyways to play matches other than if I get a FAF moderator to play with me. So either way I’m forced to play with bots. On either vanilla or FAF. It’s been like this the past 7 months.

Yet they wholeheartedly say there’s plenty of players! All the time!

Of course the discord server is worse there’s barely like 2-5 people using #general at any given moment but by god if I somehow exist in #general the world is going to end and Femto Zetto wants me banned, for what? Using retarded anime emotes? Saying my favorite faction is Aeon Illuminate?

By the way everyone treats me like crap these past like 7 months for having low MMR yet there are literally never anyone on. Even during hot moments on weekends. It’s even ridiculous to muster up that I have to wait to the weekends to play matches just like if I was playing vanilla. Even then I’m still matched with people 1000 to 2000+ my MMR.

It honestly boils my veins when the same people that are worried about FAF elections over a community passion project (not a country’s government).

Don’t even play the game that they Administer. It’s like when I watched the FAF guy interview with a developer and the FAF guy didn’t know anything about SupCom lore before he went into the interview.

Because large important parts of the campaigns are in commentary videos, movies, and ending-credit speeches. Going over to the lore binding of the Nomads for example. Wtf? The community name is Nomads? There’s a neutral planet on the map called Freeport? Why can’t you use that?

By the way of course Nomads is so broken and busted that you can’t use them on ladder yet. And probably never because nobody works on Nomads anymore.

I maybe ignorant and probably incredulous but I believe there’s hope behind all of this Brick Wall of a Bureaucracy they call a passion project on a video game.

But currently there doesn’t seem to be much in the way of change for the better. I’m surprised as hell the project hasn’t devolved into Civil War and is forked.

Because honestly the worst part of it is that there was a community that saw a dying piece of art called FA. Which was broken, battered and was thrown through the chilly depths of the afterlife.

Developers dropped it to Squeenie because of the economic crash of 2007/2008 plus of course Chris Taylor himself said none of the GPG products broke even because the publishers pocketed all the differences but but but Alphahex the leader of the pack for the SupCom2 discord made a funny video saying SupCom2 bankrupted the company and shuttered its doors.

Despite the closing of Age of Empires Online and the failed Kickstarter campaign for Wildman was what really sealed the doom of GPG.

All that’s left now are the communities barely scraping by years after the hay days of Dungeon Siege and Supreme Commander were long over.

Because of course Space Siege and Demigod were extremely bad. And will slowly fade away to the passage of time. (They already have)

While FAF will continue to roll through batch after batch of Administrative bureaucrats because they drag this long winded project through constant upheavals and rocky roads until they burn out or have real world obligations that are more pressing.

Dungeon Siege was really screwed over by Squeenie. The SecuRom DRM I’m pretty sure removed the cursor from Dungeon Siege 2 and Space Siege but of course the expansion packs are nowhere to be found.

Lands of Aranna and Broken World dropped off the face of the planet and all that’s left is for the community to pick up the broken pieces. Dungeon Siege 1 and 2 barely works on Windows 10.

Dungeon Siege 1 on vanilla crashes if you cap out shadows in graphics. So the community has thrown out tons of patches thanks to Killah and everyone else.

Either way it’s a never ending cycle of a rocky road up a dangerous mountain with constant drops back to the bottom like when Nvidia absolutely broke all the GPG games and despite being told on FAF not to contact Nvidia support for help.

I personally did anyway and they fixed it up.

Absolutely incredible. And when I mean incredible I mean what the community has done is incredible. Nothing but blood, sweat, and tears were shed out of sheer love and passion for the abandonware games that they call home.

Because calling something as monumental as a community project on a video game “just a game.” Is so very wrong in so many ways. It very much is belligerence towards everyone who works on it and belittles all the work everyone poured into it.

Eloquence should be mustered. It’s not “just a game” it’s the community that finds home within the walls of this tiny little universe we call either Supreme Commander or Dungeon Siege.

Keep it going. And no none of it is this “malaware” OP speaks of. It’s not perfect, nor is it euphoric. But everyone works together and makes it the best we can be.

Cordially,

Ben

[Ice Robertson]

Umm sometimes various antivirus or even windows defender throws up warnings or alerts for all sorts of software, I think people call them "false positives".

Actually getting infected though could have come from any source, The false positive could just make you think it was FAF or LOUD.

I don't actually know though as i don't play online anymore apart from LAN with my dad.

[de_flipkabouter]

I dont think OP grasps what can get flagged as malware, to sum up, non-malware. Non signed programs just get flagged, your AV cant make the distinction and just tags it to make sure, doenst mean its bad per se.

[VulcanTourist]

Ironically, the original poster's misspelled word "malaware" rather aptly describes HIM better than it does the mods he fears for no reason other than his ignorance:

mal - aware == bad awareness

[Sephiroth]

Well you should play the regular game and not faf. Its all I play and I easily find games everyday. There are some dead hours but still plenty of people to play with. You can start playing with me and some of my friends. Hey the more the merrier.