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Re: Red Alert 2 and Yuri's Revenge Windowed Mode

@only1fuct

Um. In what installer?

If you mean the fixed launchers, nah, they're safe. Don't be too quick to jump on the virus scares; as you can see there practically all of those scanners report it as safe, which usually means that the few that mark it as unsafe are false positives, or simply (as is increasingly the case these days) paranoid about programs they simply don't know.

So, let's go over the list, mkay? All information in italics comes from the websites of the respective virus scanners.

Baidu: Win32.Trojan.WisdomEyes

Some chinese scanner. Couldn't navigate their site, but from what other sites say, this seems to be a generic detection for "something that modifies system files"

AegisLab / Symantec: Trojan.Gen.SMH / ML.Relationship.HighConfidence

Trojan.Gen.SMH is a generic detection for many individual but varied Trojans for which specific definitions have not been created.

McAfee: Artemis.

Artemis in this case is not the name of a virus or malware; it indicates that something else was quarantined or blocked

As you see, none of these are specific identified viruses, and they all use some fancy-sounding opaque name that basically means "we don't know". In fact, the Symantec "HighConfidence" label indeed points to it marking the file as suspicious simply because it doesn't know it. This is an increasing trend, making it very hard for small developers to distribute programs.

So, long story short... they just detect it modifies something in your system. Which is kind of the point of the installer. In other words, all of these can safely be assumed to be false positives.

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