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Posted August 03, 2023
Does anyone have info on the 14 GB update that just got downloaded for Prey?
Posted August 04, 2023
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The Vulcaneer: Does anyone have info on the 14 GB update that just got downloaded for Prey?
Hi!

No, but my virus scanner sounded the alarm! The file Restarter.exe was a threat and very dangerous. I don't know what to make of that.
Posted August 04, 2023
I was looking for more info too. The only thing I noticed are
-the patched file in precache folder is now merged in other .pak as it should
-the executable is now in a new folder x64gog instead of x64. Executable and most of .dll have changed

This breaks the prey interface mod for me...
Post edited August 04, 2023 by DeYuS
Posted August 04, 2023
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The Vulcaneer: Does anyone have info on the 14 GB update that just got downloaded for Prey?
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Tyberias1980: Hi!

No, but my virus scanner sounded the alarm! The file Restarter.exe was a threat and very dangerous. I don't know what to make of that.
Sometimes antivirus can flag files that aren't a threat. This was downloaded through GOG Galaxy so I assume it's a patch.
Posted August 04, 2023
Yeah, in my case it was around 6gb. I can´t find patch notes anywhere though.
Posted August 04, 2023
Yeah I saw this pop up yesterday. What's weird is in Galaxy, it shows that it was released 25 days ago. GOGDB shows it was added yesterday, but the build date is 2023-07-10. I checked the Steam pages and there is no mention of an update over there. I'm not updating until I know WTF is going on.
Posted August 04, 2023
I'd like to know what the heck changed, too!

Suddenly they drop an update for a game that hasn't been updated since around 2018 or 2019?

*chanting* Info! Info! Info!
Posted August 05, 2023
i see the virus alert too. and i don't think there should be a x64gog-folder. maybe an internal version or whatever. and i agree, its smart to wait for more info before install.

edit: virustotal "restarter.exe":
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/c1aeef1740a1928f160e72bdc14a12152e9c4d38903f2603fddb348e82557555?nocache=1
Post edited August 05, 2023 by Cattie
Posted August 05, 2023
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The Vulcaneer: Does anyone have info on the 14 GB update that just got downloaded for Prey?
What's also odd is there's been no update on Steam.
The last update on Steam was on 7/23/2020.

https://steamdb.info/app/480490/patchnotes/


So I would like GoG to let us know what this is.
Posted August 05, 2023
GOG must look into this and explain us what's going on.

Do we remember how CD Projekt Red, the parent company of the store, got hacked? No company is fully safe. Seeing well-known Kaspersky on scans, plus this odd "Restarter.exe" all of a sudden, this is not looking great: The older installers or the newest installer after the current, none has any "Restarter.exe." Could it be there are no changelog because the malicious actor didn't have a high access to influence Steam's changelogs or affect other installers for that matter, only to change gamefiles and this installer's behavior? Who knows? What I do know is better to be safe than sorry.

For now I can only tell to keep the older offline installer on disks if you'd one unless we know more.

More Context
Old Installer: www.virustotal.com/gui/file/00e10df957337e56564cd6c0a36077de931f4530a5cf6baecb740fc924a37f31/behavior
Other old installer: www.virustotal.com/gui/file/8f146774b6d3ff0fa638870a1a3b26ff52d75c50a38b3cb42543f1b0196a56de/behavior
Other new installer: www.virustotal.com/gui/file/8c5e1be9cb8fdd843e0a25082c0717f45aeb0793ef726bd549fae2fa17674768/behavior
Post edited August 05, 2023 by ABitAlarmed
Posted August 05, 2023
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ABitAlarmed: ...
The older installers or the newest installer after the current, none has any "Restarter.exe."
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you have to extract the restarter.exe, a scan of the whole installer bin file don't works.
this file is part of the game: ...\Prey\Binaries\Danielle\x64\Release\Restarter.exe
Post edited August 05, 2023 by Cattie
Posted August 05, 2023
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ABitAlarmed: GOG must look into this and explain us what's going on.

Do we remember how CD Projekt Red, the parent company of the store, got hacked? No company is fully safe. Seeing well-known Kaspersky on scans, plus this odd "Restarter.exe" all of a sudden, this is not looking great: The older installers or the newest installer after the current, none has any "Restarter.exe." Could it be there are no changelog because the malicious actor didn't have a high access to influence Steam's changelogs or affect other installers for that matter, only to change gamefiles and this installer's behavior? Who knows? What I do know is better to be safe than sorry.

For now I can only tell to keep the older offline installer on disks if you'd one unless we know more.

More Context
Old Installer: www.virustotal.com/gui/file/00e10df957337e56564cd6c0a36077de931f4530a5cf6baecb740fc924a37f31/behavior
Other old installer: www.virustotal.com/gui/file/8f146774b6d3ff0fa638870a1a3b26ff52d75c50a38b3cb42543f1b0196a56de/behavior
Other new installer: www.virustotal.com/gui/file/8c5e1be9cb8fdd843e0a25082c0717f45aeb0793ef726bd549fae2fa17674768/behavior
Restarter is part of the package, it's in (Installdir)\Binaries\Danielle\x64\Release

(You can see the files in the Steam distribution as well here: https://steamdb.info/depot/480491/)

The SHA1 hash for Restarter in the previous GoG distribution matches the most recent Steam one and is 53b8193d884455330c49e20504358db0df72b864.


Other hash types are below:
MD5: 5f1f8e3c445c1acdbb7466e4c749bc17
SHA 256: 2bd70a7ca8775d5ed75ead1c9b0897e351abbdbfe026c3fb7da816bbf62dde2e


(Virus Total has one threat for it from MaxSecure "Trojan.Malware.300983.susgen" which is obviously b.s.)


I have not patched my Prey yet mostly due to my Baldur's Gate 3 download which may actually finish today (it stalled out overnight due to some CDN issue.)
Posted August 05, 2023
I didn't get an antivirus alarm at all. I've scanned the entire Prey folder as well as every GOG folder on my computer and everything comes up clean. Found the attached on the GOG Database, but that was all the info I could find.
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Posted August 05, 2023
The offline installer got a patch around the same time, from 10966486 to 12742273. It's an exe with two cabs, 6.2GB total.

The updated offline installer has seven cabs in total, the same as before, so it would seem the patch is overwriting some big files.

It's big, but not nearly as big as the (presumably Galaxy) update you people are talking about.

I, too, would like to see some patch notes for this.
Post edited August 05, 2023 by maxpoweruser
Posted August 05, 2023
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ABitAlarmed: ...
The older installers or the newest installer after the current, none has any "Restarter.exe."
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Cattie: you have to extract the restarter.exe, a scan of the whole installer bin file don't works.
this file is part of the game: ...\Prey\Binaries\Danielle\x64\Release\Restarter.exe
HI! =)))

I'm still waiting too. Kaspersky deleted the file immediately! =)))

I haven't found any other information about the patch. :/
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