SOE sending out viruses in their Sentinel's Fate Retail editions?!? [Archive]

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Melfius

03-05-2010, 08:12 PM

I was copying the two DVDs that come in the retail version to my local HDD (it makes installing easier, faster, and preserves the discs). All was going well until I began copying Disc 2, wherein my anti-virus program popped up informing me that the file EQII_Autorun.exe was a Trojan virus!What up wit' dat?!?

Skywarrior

03-05-2010, 08:27 PM

Malicious software is passed into the target computer in many ways. One of them is to disguise the file as a common harmless file, like autoexec.exe. Because the autoexec.exe file is known to be used to pass malicious software at times, many virus checkers will flag a file with that name, regardless of actual file content.If your source is trustworthy (ie a major commercially produced DVD) the chances of it being a false positive are virtually 100%. Virus checkers are not foolproof and they will give erroneous results. Since folks are generally more forgiving of security software that is too stringent than with software than misses the bad stuff, if makes sense that false positives are going to occur sometimes. This is one reason why most install software tells you to disable virus software before doing the install, as many things occur during an installation that looks just like malicious software installing itself.

Ama

03-05-2010, 08:49 PM

<cite>Skywarrior wrote:</cite><blockquote>Malicious software is passed into the target computer in many ways. One of them is to disguise the file as a common harmless file, like autoexec.exe. Because the autoexec.exe file is known to be used to pass malicious software at times, many virus checkers will flag a file with that name, regardless of actual file content.If your source is trustworthy (ie a major commercially produced DVD) the chances of it being a false positive are virtually 100%. Virus checkers are not foolproof and they will give erroneous results. Since folks are generally more forgiving of security software that is too stringent than with software than misses the bad stuff, if makes sense that false positives are going to occur sometimes. This is one reason why most install software tells you to disable virus software before doing the install, as many things occur during an installation that looks just like malicious software installing itself.</blockquote>Yes this is true I wouldn't say false positives from DVD sources is 100% false positive, but it is like 99.99999999%. On my old computer I have the trend micro anti-virus program and it gets annoyed by the EQ2 lp_plugin for the station launcher. It kept swearing to me that it was a generic virus and would constantly delete it from my EQ2 folder. Luckily I just had to re-download the file every time I logged on and it was a simple 500kb file at most. Also as said above when you are installing any type of software from a physical source it will usually tell you to disable anti-spyware and anti-viral software. This can cause interruptions when installing it and can cause the program to install improperly yielding errors.

Wingrider01

03-06-2010, 10:54 AM

<cite>Melfius@Blackburrow wrote:</cite><blockquote>I was copying the two DVDs that come in the retail version to my local HDD (it makes installing easier, faster, and preserves the discs). All was going well until I began copying Disc 2, wherein my anti-virus program popped up informing me that the file EQII_Autorun.exe was a Trojan virus!What up wit' dat?!?</blockquote>It's called a false positve, all AV software has had it occur, in fact false positive reports are one of the major review points on the various sites for av software.Some are a lot worse then others, AVG lately has topped the list for false positive reports in recent months.Thier quality of the free product has gone downhill steadily recently. McCaffe is high up there also.Avast, MS Security Essentials are a better choice in the way of free products if you use it that way. Kaparsky, Bit Defender, Trend are all on the tp end of the list for best choices in the pay for use versions.There is no virus in the disks

Martessa

03-06-2010, 08:59 PM

I cannot get past the virus alert. Is any of the content on the 2nd disc necessary to have installed? If this disc is important how do I get the contents installed? The content won't auto install. I'm not that good with computers so please folks go easy on me. Thank you.

Wingrider01

03-07-2010, 11:02 AM

<cite>Martessa@Oasis wrote:</cite><blockquote> I cannot get past the virus alert. Is any of the content on the 2nd disc necessary to have installed? If this disc is important how do I get the contents installed? The content won't auto install. I'm not that good with computers so please folks go easy on me. Thank you.</blockquote>did you try disabling the AV and restarting the machine?you can alos download the patcher and installed the game<a href="http://launcher.station.sony.com/">http://launcher.station.sony.com/</a>

tkia

03-07-2010, 11:50 AM

<cite>Martessa@Oasis wrote:</cite><blockquote> I cannot get past the virus alert. Is any of the content on the 2nd disc necessary to have installed? If this disc is important how do I get the contents installed? The content won't auto install. I'm not that good with computers so please folks go easy on me. Thank you.</blockquote>Nothing on any of the discs is ever necessary. If you already have the game just enter the key and run the patcher as normal. You probably already have more recent copies of everything on the disc.Even if you don't have the game follow the link that Wingrider posted and you can install the entire game by download.