Trojan found in a game update

[Evie Boleyn]

Are trojans common in games on Steam? Following a recent update of Operation New Earth by Hunted Cow, my antivirus software detected a trojan identified as Win32.Trojan.WisdomEyes.151026.9950.9999 embedded in the update. I raised the question in the game's community hub and the developer replied that there were no viruses in the game and that I should not be concerned. He didn't say anything about trojans. Other players have also reported the infection since the game was updated. What's Steam's policy on matters like this?

[Start_Running]

That's a false positive.

Many AV aps scan by behaviours and similarities in code. Updaters and installers tend to have the same sorts of actions that are carried out by viruses.

It's basically safe to ignore. AV's are designed to be very sensitive because it helps them sniff out potentially undefined viruses. Better a false positive than a true negative.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

valve does their own scan when the developers send out the files to them. there is nothing to worry about. if you can download it from steam it is not a trojan, only a false positive.

norton av?

[louye`s]

[Astro_80 (WASH YOUR HANDS!)]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

valve does their own scan when the developers send out the files to them.

How do you know this? Proof?

[Satoru]

Originally posted by Astro_80:

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

valve does their own scan when the developers send out the files to them.

How do you know this? Proof?

Valves files are all hosted by Akamai

Akamai already does intense levels of scanning for the content they host

[Snapjak]

Originally posted by Astro_80:

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

valve does their own scan when the developers send out the files to them.

How do you know this? Proof?

It's what any responsible file hosting service does.

Plus it's the most popular digital gaming service on the planet, of course they're going to ensure to the best of their abilities they aren't hosting malicious files.

[Evie Boleyn]

Thanks to those who replied, I'm relieved to hear that it isn't the threat it appears to be. I was unconvinced by the response from the game developer and I've seen some unusual behaviour from my PC since AVG flagged the software, but finally I can now put that unusual behaviour down to coincidence. Thanks all.

[MancSoulja]

Originally posted by Evie Boleyn:

Thanks to those who replied, I'm relieved to hear that it isn't the threat it appears to be. I was unconvinced by the response from the game developer and I've seen some unusual behaviour from my PC since AVG flagged the software, but finally I can now put that unusual behaviour down to coincidence. Thanks all.

AVG is utter rubbish. I bought AVG Ultimate over Christmas and I can't wait for my sub to expire so I can go back to Norton. I've never had so much drama with AV software before. In the end I added all the Steam folders to the scan exception list, just to shut it up

[Astro_80 (WASH YOUR HANDS!)]

Norton is even worse. I personally use Trend Micro and it does a great job.

[MancSoulja]

Originally posted by Astro_80:

Norton is even worse. I personally use Trend Micro and it does a great job.

Norton is great, has been for years now. It used to be a bloated, resource hog. But now it's fast, light and offers great tools and protection.

Trend and Kaspersky are great too, I'm just used to Norton's UI.

[Seven7]

All signature AV is dead about 10 years ago. Don't use it at all. Windows Defender is enough for protect from scriptkiddis. From real hackers it useles. Use Common Sense and Paranoia, White Lists: all is prohibited which is not permitted to explicitly, Software Restriction Policies, etc.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Then you obviously have a crappy AV suite; thats what you should get rid of.

[Astro_80 (WASH YOUR HANDS!)]

Originally posted by Seven7:

All signature AV is dead about 10 years ago. Don't use it at all. Windows Defender is enough for protect from scriptkiddis. From real hackers it useles. Use Common Sense and Paranoia, White Lists: all is prohibited which is not permitted to explicitly, Software Restriction Policies, etc.

English is not your first language I take it? That or you struggle to construct sentences that make sense.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Originally posted by Astro_80:

Originally posted by Seven7:

All signature AV is dead about 10 years ago. Don't use it at all. Windows Defender is enough for protect from scriptkiddis. From real hackers it useles. Use Common Sense and Paranoia, White Lists: all is prohibited which is not permitted to explicitly, Software Restriction Policies, etc.

English is not your first language I take it? That or you struggle to construct sentences that make sense.

He makes perfect sense. He might be Russian, but I can understand his English just fine.
And has more years of PC hardware/software experience then most of the folks on here have been alive.

Seriously, the AV that detected crap in legit Steam files, that needs to go...

Get something that is actually good and written by people who have a clue; like Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Premium

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by Bad-Motha:

Get something that is actually good and written by people who have a clue; like Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Premium

the best $10 multi pc/lifetime protection investment money can buy!