[20241024] - 'exefile.exe' Incorrectly Flagged By Anti-Virus Applications

Hey,

We’re seeing some reports that ‘exefile.exe’ is being incorrectly flagged by anti-virus applications such as Avast and Norton.

We are reaching out to Norton and Avast to ensure that the flags are resolved and encourage any player who is encountering this to also contact their anti-virus vendor.

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Checkpoint asks for verification occasionally

I always thought that there must be a miner in EVE because the CPU usage is ridiculous.

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Miners are the backbone of Eve Online!

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I’d like to know precisely what code in the exe file is being flagged as a virus.

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You encourage us to say your code is not a virus? Yet you do not give us the code or even explain why it gets flagged.

Are you insane?

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For the love of the machine god, get Norton off you’re system xD

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I’m sure there are several thousands.

The only time I got a real bad virus was running Avast.
I’ve been using Windows own antivirus and real-time protection now for over 10 years and never got a virus.
EVE is now happily running on my machine, no alert, no warning no nothing :slightly_smiling_face:

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found someone utterly and completely incapable of doing a code review.

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You shoukd see their other thread, refuses to explain their problem or send ccp a ticket, but wants something fixed

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And doesn’t know that Google Translate exists.

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No, we encourage you to contact your security vendor and provide them with all details on the issue you have.

You submit the file that is flagged to your security vendor.

We can’t explain why your security vendor is flagging the file. All scanners used by VirusTotal came up empty-handed: VirusTotal analysis of exefile.exe

I fail to see how this question is relevant or professional.

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You think thats not professional. You should see the topic they made in regards to russian payments

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Ended up looking so stupid over there, you need to spam other threads instead?

I would need a reason to believe its a false positive. You have not supplied any.

EDIT If they refuse to tell you anything, then tell us that. Tell us what changes are in that made it start get detected, these kind of things.

Right now the Eve Launcher is packed with trackers etc from Google, and one point we couldn’t even enter the game if we used DNS blocking to prevent our computer from accessing well known tracking servers. I have every reason to believe you imported a new library that gets detected, and no reason to believe your code is safe to have on a computer.

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Know that it exists. Also knows that it is useless and extremely dangerous, telling you things tht cna in fact be the direct opposite of what the input says.

Sure. With over 1 billion installs and a 100 billion words translated every day but it’s “useless and extremely dangerous” :roll_eyes:

Of course, you have to have more than two brain cells to use it.

100 billion words WRONGLY translated every day

Fixed that for you.

Before you fix anything for me, you ought to try and fix your little problem you posted about.
How’s that going for you? Is it fixed?
Gee I wonder why.

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I use Aura and it is currently acting like the “F:\EVE Online\tq\bin64\exefile.exe” is a virus and keeps quarantining it. I can’t figure out how to add it to the exclusions list due to the file’s location on my computer and every time I try to open the game it automatically closes so I can’t play. Could someone please fix this? I have already uploaded a bug report as well.