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[powerrave]

now it makes me wonder. why , on a certain amount of systems, is it being detected as a virus? it's no biggy, i can get into that. but this is just something that bugs me.

and before asuming, i didn't get my RA2 from Sage his sig. i had found the installer i use 3 years ago ;]

[Serge]

Because it depends on the antivirus software?

[70 CUDA]

ok then what the is wrong with my DL? i just had to re export it cause it did it twice today. i know it isnt a virus but what is causing it?

[Serge]

ok then what the is wrong with my DL? i just had to re export it cause it did it twice today. i know it isnt a virus but what is causing it?

It's the infogrames registration tool. False positive.

And it's not because it's Sage's download, or because it was hosted on GTM, or because it was hosted when the moon was in it first quarter phase. The same utility is on the original RA2 CD that you bought from a store. Recent antivirus software has something called heuristics, which means that viruses are not only checked by signatures, but also unknown programs are being disassembled and their code is being reviewed to see whether it could be malicious. Here it is detected as one, since it does place itself in the CurrentVersion\Run\ key (which can be later easily deleted), which is kind of worm-y, but I don't really know when. I remember running that utility a long time ago and nothing like that happened.