RAM-bo4250 Posted March 11, 2010 Share Posted March 11, 2010 Battlefront and 1C This may be a false alarm but after downloading Kursk 1943 today my AVG antivirus detected a virus as follows in the default download location : D:\program files\battlefront\1C Company\Theatre of War 2 Kursk...etc. It read as follows: virus found Win32/Heur I hope it's just a false alarm. I have running AVG Free 8.5.436. I don't want to give misleading information so here it is. AVG did not detect the virus when it was first downloaded. I played Kursk awhile and then left the computer. When I came back to the computer later on that is when the virus was detected. I did open Mission Editor to have a look and also Options when I was fooling around with Kursk earlier. It may have attached at that time (maybe?) Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAM-bo4250 Posted March 11, 2010 Author Share Posted March 11, 2010 This file (virus?) was found in 3 places: \MissionEditor\Editor.exe \MissionEditor\SimpleEditor.exe \Options.exe Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sneaksie Posted March 11, 2010 Share Posted March 11, 2010 This is a so called false positive. Set an exception to leave the file alone. These files are the part of eLicense copy protection, you won't be able to launch editors or configuration program without them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moon Posted March 11, 2010 Share Posted March 11, 2010 eLicense is encrypting these (and other) files to prevent the game from being hacked. This encryption is very good (it hasn't been cracked), and your AV program cannot decode it. Not knowing what it is, it has therefore flagged the file as possible virus. But it's not. Depending on which AV program you're using, you have various tools to improve this behavior of your AV program, e.g. by setting exceptions, turning off heuristic scanning (which is the equivalent of the AV program "guessing") etc. Either way, it's a "false positive" - there is no virus contained in those files. Reporting this to the company that produced your AV program may help, too, as they sometimes issue updates to avoid such problems in the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAM-bo4250 Posted March 11, 2010 Author Share Posted March 11, 2010 Thanks Moon and Sneaksie for the quick response. I figured as much as I have never had any problems with any of 1C or Battlefront's products. Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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