WTF ! virus in demo
category: general [glöplog]
AVP antivirus has detected a possible Mail Bomb in the "suboceanic" 64k demo. Can anybody confirm this. Also, why does this small zip file make my drive work like crazy when I extract it. This is really suspicious.
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=18343
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=18343
everything fine here...
no mail bomb, no crazy working hdd...
check if you loaded the file from scene.org, it should be all right..
no mail bomb, no crazy working hdd...
check if you loaded the file from scene.org, it should be all right..
well, we've seen such things, tho...
virus scanners often report false positives in intro executables, mostly because they use an exe packer. If something like that is reported to you, an update of the virus scanner often helps.
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Your system is low on resources or your hdd was shut down.Also, why does this small zip file make my drive work like crazy when I extract it. This is really suspicious.
antivirus .. bleh.
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virus scanners often report false positives in intro executables, mostly because they use an exe packer
packers don't have anything to do with it afaik. Virus signatures are done by least byte comparison, which packing has no effect on (ie: the comparison is done on whatever code is there, whether it's packed or not).
Well, still some intros (even 4k ones) are usually reported by virus scanners! Why does this happen? Or is it that their code is so 1337 which makes it suspicious ;)
eh... the first word in your post answered your question
defbase: and thats why it always reports the actual unpacking code-stub as virii.
It's for such reasons only lamers use antivirus programs!
Only thing I know is that some AV programs recognize Mew packed .exe files as infected.
mew worked quite well for me so far. however some versions of upack may bring nightmares.
golden rule: for as long as shane didnt manufacture the production, you're pretty safe virus-wise and it's prolly just a false warning...
Yep, got me a virus warning too with an exe packed with MEW11. The funny thing was that I had compiled and packed the thing myself :)
I'm going to link to a thread here that I started about harful code in demos so that we don't have to repeat the whole discussion again: http://www.pouet.net/topic.php?which=2506
I'm going to link to a thread here that I started about harful code in demos so that we don't have to repeat the whole discussion again: http://www.pouet.net/topic.php?which=2506
I thought the word already spread, that packed executables can appear as viruses to scanners...
and tomkh is such a nice guy, why would he put a virus in his intro :)
and tomkh is such a nice guy, why would he put a virus in his intro :)
As I said, virus scanners are for lamers. If you can't keep your windows-datan clean from virii, you don't deserve to own a windows-datan.
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Viruses, please. That is the only correct plural form. Thanks!defbase: and thats why it always reports the actual unpacking code-stub as virii.
What? I wasn't talking about viruses, I was talking about virii.
oh come on wayfinder, virii sounds way cooler! just as the plural of penis is penii and the plural of genius is genii!
^_^
^_^
David Hasselhoff is the demo virus exterminator give him a call.
So, is Optimii really Optimuses or Optimii? I never got the ii plurar concept ever :P
idioti
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as long as shane didnt manufacture the production, you're pretty safe virus-wise
Reminds me a quote from my favorite movie:
"Bellamy, for cryin out loud! That's the stinking, most awful, stupid joke and you're always pullin' that stinking awful stupid joke! You don't want in this thing, you don't get in this thing! I cut you in on everything! I don't need you, sixty feet of bridge I can get almost anywhere! ... Schmuck..."
Thank you all, anyway I disabled AVP monitor and the demo ran fine.
bwahaha, he actually believed us. Fool. :)
