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This is a history of updates to the news item "Virus scans likely to be false positives", originally posted by Andy Devil on November 8, 2012 6:29 AM. (This item is for Project Delta, by Emilian Kowalewski.)

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Virus scans likely to be false positives
Edited by necromancer, November 10, 2012 4:38 AM - Edit
This game is hosted on the Internet Fiction Archive. I contacted an admin (David Kinder) about the fact that malware was detected by a virus scanner. Kinder informs me that:
The game file is known for triggering false positives.
Kinder has tested it on virtual machines and not detected any security problems.

recap:

1. A user's personal virus scanner gave warnings for the file.

2. An online scan with many scanners also reported warnings.

3. An ifarchive admin informed me that this is likely to be a false positive.

Action: I will restore the ifdb page link to the game file.

Definitely suspicious, do not download this!
Edited by necromancer, November 8, 2012 9:06 AM - Reinstate
I tried downloading this on a second computer now, and the virus scanner blocked the download and identified the file as a trojan horse!

whoever's responsible for this site should take this down immediately!

btw if there's some better way than using the news feature to inform other users of such things, tell me.

9 out of 19 scanners detected malware in an online scan of the game file (downloaded today from http://ifarchive.heanet.ie/if-archive/games/competition2008/windows/projectdelta/nxi.exe).

we should contact the ifarchive admin to have the file taken down (if the file has been recently infected they may have an older archive version which is uninfected) and we can edit the game page to remove the link and warn readers.

I have performed these site updates (any user can) and e-mailed the ifarchive admin (if anyone knows a faster way to contact David Kinder and/or Stephen Granade quote the file if-archive/games/competition2008/windows/projectdelta/nxi.exe and tell them malware has been detected in an online scan).

Definitely suspicious, do not download this!
Edited by necromancer, November 8, 2012 8:57 AM - Reinstate
I tried downloading this on a second computer now, and the virus scanner blocked the download and identified the file as a trojan horse!

whoever's responsible for this site should take this down immediately!

btw if there's some better way than using the news feature to inform other users of such things, tell me.

9 out of 19 scanners detected malware in an online scan of the game file (downloaded today from http://ifarchive.heanet.ie/if-archive/games/competition2008/windows/projectdelta/nxi.exe).

we should contact the ifarchive admin to have the file taken down (if the file has been recently infected they may have an older archive version which is uninfected) and we can edit the game page to remove the link and warn readers.

Definitely suspicious, do not download this!
Posted by Andy Devil, November 8, 2012 6:29 AM - Reinstate
I tried downloading this on a second computer now, and the virus scanner blocked the download and identified the file as a trojan horse!

whoever's responsible for this site should take this down immediately!

btw if there's some better way than using the news feature to inform other users of such things, tell me.

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