I have Norton and about 1/2 my gog games where a "virus". Told Norton to ignore as I trust GOG and have had zero issues. Didn't read through 3 pages of stuff buy im guessing this was proven to be a false positive?

Im certain it has something to do with how GOG has gotten games to actually work on windows 10. The main reason I use gog over the others...Oh and actually owning a game I buy is good too :)

You use Norton and admit it?

What should I be using? The only other major one I know is Mcafee and thats a virus in it self that forces you to use yahoo, and when I un force ot mcafee constantly re forces it...

All in all I dont mind Norton... If you prove me otherwise I have a 3 or 5 year sub so...

I'm curious, what games do you have that are throwing false positives in Norton? I can count on one hand the number of times Norton has flagged something, and in most cases it has been a third-party patch or utility. None of my vanilla GOG installations has ever has problems.

You started talking about airplanes then ignored my point and went off topic with cryptocurrency mining games.
Now you are talking about GoG and trojans.

Anyway how are people meant to tell a false positive from a real one?



P.S As you brought up miners they are also claimed to be snuck into adverts.
https://www.inquisitr.com/4756569/youtube-serves-ads-with-cryptocurrency-miners/

Are you completely dense?

You were the person claiming "a number of game devs have already put spyware or malware in games" which to my knowledge just isn't true.

That's where "airplanes" came in. But you want to be disingenuous and claim I ignored your point and went off topic. No, I addressed your point. Malware and trojans are not rampant at all. You are wrong. You clearly have no clue what the heck you are talking about and all you are doing is fear mongering.

You didn't have a point because your point was wrong and misguided, but here you are acting as if you have a clue what you are talking about. In over a decade, not a single title has been found with "malware" here on GoG and I can only remember a single example, just one, on Steam.

But then you want to keep acting like a fool linking unrelated things like Browser cryptominers, as if that has anything to do with what we are talking about.

The game is fine. This has been talked about for almost a week and no one has found evidence of an actual virus as I expected and as anyone with a basic knowledge about this topic would also expect given the facts of this particular case. Sorry. You don't have a point. This was not actual malware.

I can't comment currently, but twenty years ago Norton was used in-house in IBM.

and you got a list of suspicious programs or devs in the reply before complaining about crypto. I didn't say it was. My point was how are people meant to tell a false positive from a real one?

Suspicious programs which were already proven to be false flags. Wake up! You don't have a clue what you are talking about.

And I explained how one finds out. You do a little research. You check the virus or trojan and see how common it is to be a false positive. You can check and see that the file hasn't been updated since August thanks to fellow Goggers who track all the game updates. You look for anyone saying they have a real issue, because if it is a trojan or malware, it's going to either mess up your computer or send unwanted information through your firewall. Enough people have their systems locked down well enough, they'd know! And if that's too much, you can ask in threads like this one and more informed people can give you an answer as many did.

There are plenty of ways and I gave you a long list of the reasons why someone can be rather sure its clean. But in your ignorance, you just want to ignore all the useful information already provided in this thread while you cry that "The sky is falling", "Don't trust anything", "Devs include malware all the time". Or otherwise all the bs you have been spewing.

Is that the youtube link I found? What about all the other examples. Redshell spyware was true. Let's assume we are talking about a general program because your replying as if my point was aimed at this GoG game.

For the sake of the discussion, a new update to software scanners would pick out something that was previously missed so the lag time between the suspicious program a warning from a scanner is a weak

If unwanted information is being encrypted or tunneled through another program how are people expected to find that?

Just hang it up! We aren't talking about anti-cheat software, nor marketing trackers. If we were, the vast majority of programs, including one's OS and browsers are guilty. We are talking about viruses and trojans that can infect one's machine.

The fact is, reputable sites like Steam or GoG just do not contain these things except in very rare instances. You are acting as if they are all over the place and they just aren't.

Can it happen, sure. It just doesn't except rarely. And this has historically proven to be true.

If you are going to be worried about needles in a haystack, you better stay home. Don't drive, don't fly, because rarely people die in car and planes crashes. If you want to live in bubble wrap, go ahead, but to spread your ill-conceived paranoia to others is just not healthy for you or for them.

No one said to just ignore warnings from one's AV. People here suggested to look into it further. Test it on VirusTotal, do a little research and come to an informed conclusion. And after people did their research, the conclusion was that the program was very likely to be safe for all the reasons already discussed in this thread.

But you want to drone on about your doom and gloom. People listening to you should just throw their computers away, because they never know when a virus is going to trash it...all for something that almost never happens.

Yes and most people were told at the time to throw it away and get something decent.I can remember it disliking just about anything new that was installed and it didn't last too long on my pc. I cant recommend it as I haven't seen it since but,who knows it could be okay now.