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You know your game is on the fringe

PostPosted:Sat Dec 01, 2012 6:52 pm
by Don
When Norton blocks the executeable giving the reason "we've never seen this file before so it's probably a virus". And no, Norton usually knows about every game out there, even cracked version of fairly obscure games and I think as long as more than single digit of people have ever used some file they'll look into it and check it out. I'm wondering if I'm the first person that's ever tried to run this particular executeable with Norton on. It took 2 months to download the file on BT (mostly becase the seed was never available).

Oh well, back to the drawing board. Maybe in another 5 years enough people would've ran this executeable enough for it to be not flagged. No I'm not going to disable Norton since there's still some slim chance it's a virus (though why would someone do it on a game nobody plays is beyond me).

Re: You know your game is on the fringe

PostPosted:Sat Dec 01, 2012 8:21 pm
by SineSwiper
Errr... any compile EXE made from something like C# is going to be "something Norton has never seen".

Re: You know your game is on the fringe

PostPosted:Sun Dec 02, 2012 12:30 am
by Don
Even the 10 different version of the cracked games that normally nobody has ever heard of tends to be recognized by Norton. Norton gives a lot of false positives like I've seen the BNet scanning thing show up as virus, and I've seen various new builds of MMORPG patchers show up as virus but obviously these get recognized as legitmate files rather quickly.