They said it was just the multiplayer aspect that installs it. If you just play Singleplayer mode you should be fine. You can always delete FEARMP.exe from the game's directory. I just wish I had this information earlier.

Fun. Then disinfect your system, then avoid that file/feature until they get it fixed. Beyond that not much to say.

Considering the Multiplayer aspect is pretty much dead (unless you're using LAN) it is understandable they'd miss it, i just hoped it was a mistake.

I don't know if there were any MP bot-matches in FEAR. That's what I wanted to try out. I'm hoping GOG can clean out that FEARMP.exe file.

Or better yet:

Replace it with a galaxy client. ;)

It would be cool to play FEAR on Galaxy! Or maybe the FlatOut series too!

This may be TMI, but I'm getting aroused at the thought of a game of FlatOut with you characters! :D

That's good to hear.

Would be nice if they posted an alert or something until they get it fixed though.

It was SecuRom 7 that caused everyone to see what a bad thing it was. It hurt the comps of people that had CD burning software on them. SR7 saw this as something not koshur, that someone was trying to pirate software. They even asked if I was doing that since I had a CD burner and software. I told them "Windows is a CD burning software" and they just game me the run around after that. Microsoft had to help me recover my files at one point and we were lucky to get 70% of them back. SR7 had totally scrambled the HD Master boot records as well as the backup records. MS sent me a file to try and recover as much as possible while attaching the drive by cables to another computer to try and read it.

With SR7 if you had burner software or an image mounter it would cause problems. Heck, it would lock me out of even opening legitimate images that I had mad on my own computer. Some EXE files, if I was looking in directory view would bluescreen or cause the computer to reset. There are little things like desktop flicker5 or slowness of an exe or icons going to plain defaults that tell me that SR7 is on my comp. I have a disk made to get it off my system stat when I see that. Some variants of SR7 are so bad that it can take an hour or more to get it completely off your system.

One of the last time I was "infected" with it, I had to reinstall everything from my games to my software I use to make designs, a 16+ hour process. I am very careful about viruses and SR7.

That is why it doesn't affect everyone in the same way. For those that it does affect it is usually ones that have to make disks for backups and have software that helps them get to the files that they need in an unusual way.

I'm 100% sure this was an honest mistake but man how can they not tested it?
I mean, nobody at gog, during the whole testing phase, didn't clicked on the multiplayer button? Isn't this what testing is supposed to do, clicking on all menu buttons at least?
That's pretty bad in my book ;(

They obviously need better testers, some guys from this thread for example with some knowledge of SecuROM, StarForce, etc...
There are several moments when I think, people from some thread should start working for GoG (on Linux support for example, we got some serious nerds here), this is one of those.

I don't know about him, but when I am on a multi- (two) screen setup, running a game in a window simplifies things a lot.

If my laptop is connected to an external monitor (extended desktop), I can run a full-screen game only on the screen which is marked as the primary display. So if I e.g. want to run a game on the laptop screen and something else on the monitor screen (e.g. a walkthrough file for the game?), I first have to swap the laptop screen as the primary screen before running the game.

Also, in my setup the secondary screen works a bit erratically in that case, for some reason all the windows in the secondary desktop are moved halfway off the screen, if I have a fullscreen game on the other screen. And if it is some old 256-color game, the secondary (desktop) screen gets odd colors.

None of these problems exist if I run a game in a window. I can freely move it around between the two screens, etc. Hence, by default I run e.g. DOSBox in a window, configured to use a resolution that in occupies most of the screen though (I don't want to play games in a small window). So it feels like playing in full screen, only that I may see parts of the desktop e.g. on the sides (a 4:3 DOSBox window on a 16:9 screen). If at any point I want to run DOSBox full-screen instead, Alt-Enter works.

In a single-screen setup, I have less reason to run game in a window. Mainly just if I need to constantly swap between the game screen, and e.g. a walkthrough file. It is a bit less painful to swap between two windows, than alt-tab from a fullscreen game. Other than that, full-screen it is in a single-screen setup.

Oops, I accidentaly downvoted your post when I meant to upvote it, Firek.

Which is sorta what i expected... Having a few dormant files is the least of any worries i'd have honestly... Although they might be slightly annoying to have.