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ShadowWolfe
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Joined: 19 Feb 2003
Posts: 205
Location: In the northern mountains of the western continent. |
I went to install my good ol' copy of gothic 1, to rip through and have some fun. And im running my virus scanner in the background... and BAM! The cd is riddled with viruses!!! ACK! WHY! why damn!t? *sob*so i threw my gothic cd in garbage and began mourning over all the good old times....
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Mon Nov 17, 2003 1:42 am |
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Val
Risen From Ashes
Joined: 18 Feb 2002
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Location: Utah, USA |
Dig it out of the garbage can and send it to the developers with an explaination of what's wrong. They might send you a new one.
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Korplem
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Joined: 23 Dec 2002
Posts: 853
Location: Pearl Harbor, HI |
@ ShadowWolfe: Virus protection programs are like mothers: overly protective. If you played Gothic with that cd before then there is no reason that it should have anything harmful this time, right?
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Mon Nov 17, 2003 1:56 am |
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ShadowWolfe
Noble Knight
Joined: 19 Feb 2003
Posts: 205
Location: In the northern mountains of the western continent. |
thats what i thought ... why now? so just to be on the safe side i sent it away to get a new one ...
it scared the living bejezus out of me though ... i mean gothic!! its like family to me  why did my own flesh and blood turn on me ...
errrr lol ... its nice to be back ... took a leave of absence for awhile but now i shall be back.
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Mon Nov 17, 2003 4:21 pm |
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Cm
Sentinel of Light
Joined: 26 Jan 2003
Posts: 5209
Location: Missouri USA |
I think most game installations can trigger a virus alert. That is why they tell you to shut down your virus scanner during installation. As long as the game is legal copy, it should not pose a problem. I got the same reaction when I installed G2. I forgot to turn virus scan off. But after redoing it, and later virus scan after install, no problems found.
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Mon Nov 17, 2003 4:59 pm |
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hwfanatic
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Joined: 28 Oct 2002
Posts: 2850
Location: Belgrade, Serbia |
I'm curious... What is the name of the virus that your anti-virus reports? Also, what av program do you use? |
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Mon Nov 17, 2003 10:13 pm |
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ShadowWolfe
Noble Knight
Joined: 19 Feb 2003
Posts: 205
Location: In the northern mountains of the western continent. |
i did a deep scan on the disk using norton and it has a new type of worm that infests your admin files ... dont know how it got on there :S so i am kinda confused ... and its not just the program, i checked it out on a bunch ... so im just gonna go pick up another copy ... since its only 10$ in my local EB thanks for all the replies
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Tue Nov 18, 2003 1:05 am |
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Korplem
Swashbuckler
Joined: 23 Dec 2002
Posts: 853
Location: Pearl Harbor, HI |
This is just a wild guess but it could be because in the Gothic.ini file it has pc info such as 'IdComputerName' which looks like your comps network name.
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Tue Nov 18, 2003 1:21 am |
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hwfanatic
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Joined: 28 Oct 2002
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Location: Belgrade, Serbia |
quote:
Originally posted by ShadowWolfe
a new type of worm that infests your admin files
What about the exact virus identifier..? |
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Tue Nov 18, 2003 10:42 am |
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ShadowWolfe
Noble Knight
Joined: 19 Feb 2003
Posts: 205
Location: In the northern mountains of the western continent. |
when it comes up it is identified as a data miner ... then upon further investigation it called it along the lines of atracker.e and downloader.baker
it was then confirmed with my isp that millions of spam was leaving my computer during the day and that my service was shut down till i could contain it ... so i got rid of the disk and ran all my system virus scanners ... got rid of norton and ran trendmicros cillin it found 3 new hosts of the virus or worm and cleaned it and eradicated it ... this took me hours cause of my large hd ... so i ran adaware and found a shitload of new spam on my comp got rid of it and set my internet protocols to different varients so i am now aware of new spam and viri and worms on my computer so i can take action. This in turn left me with a huge bandwidth bill from my isp ... it seems i took up 800gb over the last night. :S 400$ bill i need to pay to my isp.
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Tue Nov 18, 2003 7:59 pm |
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Korplem
Swashbuckler
Joined: 23 Dec 2002
Posts: 853
Location: Pearl Harbor, HI |
Holy Crud!!! I'm glad we dont have to pay for bandwidth used around here...
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