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  • jmk5523's avatar
    jmk5523
    10 years ago

    Make sure you select the icon, what you did is opened the properties for the Red Alert 2 folder. I've done it many times, left click the item that you want to open the properties for, and then right click.

  • Beware, VirusTotal.com reports there is a Trojan inside of the installer. I would feel more comfortable if the source code was posted on GitHub or some other medium where users could review/compile the code.

    https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/9e5e3b89db04c1db4169d38f613d8d5c2bfe2811ad8a01052421828556a9ea49/analysis/

    Antivirus Result Update
    AegisLab Troj.Gen.Smh!c 20161217
    Baidu Win32.Trojan.WisdomEyes.16070401.9500.9780 20161207
    McAfee Artemis!4F44A96B3169 20161218
    McAfee-GW-Edition Artemis 20161218
    Symantec Trojan.Gen.SMH 20161218
  • Nyerguds's avatar
    Nyerguds
    Hero+
    9 years ago

    @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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