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[The Very End]

Hey,

I have AVG intivirus, and time after time it deletes my MO, since it means there is a trojan there. Tested it today and downloaded a new version, when it was done downloading I got an allert and it were blocked/deleted.

AG beeing an bitch or is there something to it?

[Darkstorm]

Na, it is just being a bitch. Alot of people have played MO for a long time; if there was something everyone's antivirus/spyware would go off.

[Beowulf]

I use Avira, which is insanely picky but it's never flagged MO.

[The Very End]

Will chose a other antivirus program, thanks for advice about Avira!

[Gamr973]

I recommend nod32, it isn't really user friendly but I've used it for a year or so now and it works.

[some_weirdGuy]

Well, a trojan is a virus that pretends to be a different program, for example a game. Perhaps there is some trojan that 'look' similar to what mental omega 'looks' like, and so its mistaking it for a threat. (as in, doing some things that some virus does so that avg mistakes it for a virus)

Maybe mental omega is doing stuff that it avg thinks it shouldn't be('secretly' changing stuff, as in, changing stuff without 'saying' its changing them. But i have no idea how that all works, i don't know much about virus' and stuff, so maybe i'm just talking utter garbage).

Or it might be actually be a trojan, where did you download mental omega from?


Anyway, virus scanners can give false positives, its certainly not unprecedented.

[OmegaBolt]

Mine suddenly appeared as a trojan, so I actually redownloaded it and now its fine. :/

[True Lord of Chaos]

It might be the fact that it releases files into the folder without you 'telling' it to.

[Beowulf]

I'm pretty sure it's flagging the behavior. I've had Avira flag NPatch as evil, even though I know it isn't. It has to do with the operations the EXE performs, which is writing new files to a location. I doubt the file itself is the problem.

[some_weirdGuy]

@what beo said:
yeah, thats the sort of stuff i was meaning. flagging the behavior cause its doing stuff like that.

Although if The Very End downloaded it from some crack site or some other un-trustworthy location then it might well be a trojan.

[The Very End]

I downloaded it from this site hehe.
Well, I think its' the operation or command lines that are within the .exe files, because when you open that file it's primary objective is to alter names of files and spreading out some files within the YR folder, much like what a virus does. Of course this most likely is harmless, but AVG think it's some kind of virus, because the altert does not come before I start the program, so it's the way the .exe works that AVG do not like by some strange reason.

[Rattuskid]

It's also possible a virus you have may have infected it post download...

[The Very End]

Did a scan some days ago, but as you say, it might have been before too
But tried downloading it again today, same thing. Guess I am forced to chose a other antivirus program hehe.