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Virus-Weimer downloads.

Discussion in 'Icewind Dale 2' started by kylan271, May 25, 2008.

  1. kylan271 Gems: 2/31
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    Remove all ads!
    [​IMG] :mad: I know it is common sense to scan for Viruses,but somehow I discovered Trojan Viruses from Weimer Targos and Merchant downloads from here..

    Got past my AVAST..and SPYBOT somehow and seems to activate when I change weapons on character screen...the game crashes also.

    I do not know if anyone else has encountered this? I do not understand as my original downloads as with other Sorcerers.Net downloads seem OK??? All I can say is..Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
     
    kylan271, May 25, 2008
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    Morgoth La lune ne garde aucune rancune Veteran

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    Very troubling, also weird that noone else reports this.

    What happens exactly when you change weapons?
     
    Morgoth, May 25, 2008
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    There are no viruses in any downloads, your virus scanner is reporting false positives. This commonly happens with various virus scanners and trainers/mods.
     
    Taluntain, May 25, 2008
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    I have heard this also. Changing weapons via character screen for some items from mods(or original,not sure honestly which item is mod created) still triggers game crash on occassion...always in screen weapon changing.

    My ADVAST..adril software lists:Win32:Trojan-gen for both WMerchant v4 and Targos v6 exe files. My game crashed at the same time when changing weapons..hmmm some acid sword into the weapon slot. Happened about 5 times weapon change crashes,first time though for a virus alert. So I am confused as to why..the crashes are frustrating,let alone a virus alert thrown in....akin to being stuck in a web spell then someone throws in a cloud kill to say hello..heh???
     
    kylan271, May 26, 2008
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    Try disabling your virus scanner when you play; it's possible that it's actually the virus scanner that is crashing the game.
     
    Taluntain, May 26, 2008
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    If a virus scanner detects what it thinks is a virus (even if it's a false positive), the first thing it'll try to do is stop the application from propagating the virus - in other words force-quarantine the code it thinks contains the virus, leading to your application crashing. It seems that's the problem you're having. The only solution would be to either whitelist the BG2 folder manually, or disable the virus scanner entirely (not recommended unless you remember to turn it back on when you're done!)
     
    Ziad, May 26, 2008
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    Ok...it is detecting all 'weimer mods' as containing Trojans now. I have 'moved to chest' as instructed,akin to quarrantine,for the 'Trojans' via Adril Antivirus program. See if that works??? AVAST(Adril) is my main antivirus. Not BG-2 sorry,IWD-2 heh.. I will disable the antivirus when playing as I am not online anyway then.

    Thanks for the advice.
     
    kylan271, May 28, 2008
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    it's something with the new version of avast. i was going through some folders in my documents today & it popped on a wiemer mod as a trojan virus. so they have changed something in the definitions they are using.
     
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    Did you try and see if it does this with other Weidu mods not made by Weimer? If it still does this then it's definitely a change in the definition that's picking some line of code used by the Weidu application itself.
     
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    I was a big fan of Avast, but when it false-positived an official install of Java and marked a few hundred legit files as viruses and forced me to click through and approve each one of them, I got a bit fed up with it.
     
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    I have disabled the AVAST and now I still get game crash on weapon changes....aiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii #_#
     
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    MindChild Science should not set limits to imagination Resourceful Veteran

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    try disabling all mods and see if it still happens
     
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    Disable all mods..aeiiiiiiiiiii. I am not sure how,but last time I changes a mod-Druidic Shapechange..I lost all my save games. Prob with my shapechange,so I had to start from scratch. Not sure what to do for mod disable,as in unistall I presume.
     
    kylan271, Jun 12, 2008
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    yep uninstall, hm. Most mods come with instructions on install/uninstall. Weimers are as easy as running again and telling it to uninstall the installed mods as a different choice within the program.

    I would say backup your saves first though just in case something happens (and you shouldnt be using window's uninstall program for it either)
     
    MindChild, Jun 12, 2008
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