ZoneAlarm reporting Steam.exe as malware

[Gubernaut]

Hey so I updated ZoneAlarm and then it reports Steam.exe as malware trojan win32.farfli.ga Now ZoneAlarm keeps bugging me. Anyone else get this?

[TirithRR]

Time to get a better anti virus.

[Gubernaut]

What's the best free antivirus and firewall?

[Leaves]

Time to uninstall your Anti-Virus.
If you are not surfing any "special"-Sites or downloading any sh!t you don't even need one.

But if you want to have an Anti-Virus never get ZoneAlarm or Norton! O_o

btw. there is no BEST Antivirus.

Best sugestion if you ask me, keep WINDOWS-Firewall up to date (do NOT use a third-party Firewall)
and do NOT use any Anti-Virus.

If you want to use one try Avira or AntiVir.

[TirithRR]

IMO, firewalls are pointless for end users like this. Mostly because in my experience the user doesn't know how to use them properly anyway.

Personally, I just use Microsoft Security Essentials. It's good enough for me. Fast, relatively secure, always updated with windows. I take steps to ensure viruses and malware do not get onto my computer. A secure browser, adblocking, script blocking, safe browsing habits.

[Jimbo]

Yup zonealarm is saying steam is a trojan. How lame is this.

[Gubernaut]

Originally posted by TirithRR:

IMO, firewalls are pointless for end users like this. Mostly because in my experience the user doesn't know how to use them properly anyway.

Personally, I just use Microsoft Security Essentials. It's good enough for me. Fast, relatively secure, always updated with windows. I take steps to ensure viruses and malware do not get onto my computer. A secure browser, adblocking, script blocking, safe browsing habits.

Well I always used a firewall to know when programs are connecting to the internet and never had a problem. What I want to know is has anyone else had this report from zonealarm. I'll probably uninstall and find something else.

[Jimbo]

Last straw for me. I am uninstalling POS zone alarm.

[Johnny]

Ive been gaming for over 10 years, never used any anti virus/firewalls and never had any problems.
In my experience its just an annoyance.

Just rid of that ♥♥♥♥.

[Zerqu]

Originally posted by Emton:

Well I always used a firewall to know when programs are connecting to the internet and never had a problem. What I want to know is has anyone else had this report from zonealarm. I'll probably uninstall and find something else.

Yes, just had the same problem.
Zonealarm told me there was this trojan, it did it's thing by removing it and restarted the PC, then Steam was completely gone. Never had any problems before with ZA. Don't know if I should ignore this message when I reinstall Steam.

[Jimbo]

It won't allow you to ignore the message. It forced deleted it.

[TirithRR]

Another sign of a poorly implemented antivirus.

[Sam]

I was getting this too. I was able to quickly work out that it was a false postive and I've temporarily disabled the zone alarm (aka: uninstalled it). Anyone find an official zonealarm link?

[Gubernaut]

Yea I uninstalled ZoneAlarm and it deleted the Steam.exe along with it. So I had to redownload steam installer and installed it to a different folder and then copied over the steam.exe (to make sure it didn't wipe out my game files) I'm gonna use Microsoft Security Essentials and Windows Firewall I guess

[gstrack40]

My Steam.exe file has a .old extension on it after Zone alarm did it's thing.I had been using Microsoft security essentials and zone alarm for awhile with no issues. Then I deactivated the Microsoft security to save processing. I thought that might have left the door open. The page also shows my IP address in another city??
I deactivated zone alarm, enabled Security essentials and windows firewall. Did a clean steam install and moved the exec file and all is good

[TirithRR]

Originally posted by gstrack40:

The page also shows my IP address in another city??

Location based on IP is not very accurate sometimes. It may pop up in a city hours away from you, it all depends on how your ISP routes its traffic.