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Author:  The Wicked Flea [ Mon Jan 26, 2009 9:00 pm ]
Post subject:  False positive with Avast4
Just a note to all who use Avast, the latest version of the database marks CortexCommand.exe as a generic trojan. The irony of a November 2008 release being marked a trojan almost three months later makes me grin ... though I hate Avast forbidding me to run the game.

If you have Avast4, please report this as a false positive by trying to run the game and clicking in the lower right-hand corner. To force immediate submission of the executable, right-click the Avast icon and choose the "Updating > iAVS Update" menuitem. I have already done this, but added pressure might speed things up.

I know of no workaround to let anyone play the game, except to pause the resident scanner. :???:
Author:  Skiv [ Tue Jan 27, 2009 12:30 am ]
Post subject:  Re: False positive with Avast4
god damn it. You are right. It is a genereic trojan. Sending this to avast.
Author:  ProjektODIN [ Tue Jan 27, 2009 12:33 am ]
Post subject:  Re: False positive with Avast4
I always thought Avast was the superior security suite. Thank you for updating me about this crucial security risk. The CortexCOMMAND.exe executable will be removed post haste!
Author:  The Wicked Flea [ Tue Jan 27, 2009 3:50 am ]
Post subject:  Re: False positive with Avast4
Technically, this is the only false-positive I have had in the entire time I've used Avast. So that's roughly 1.5 years of no viruses and no false positives for me. I wouldn't call that a bad track record, just an inconvenience.

Besides, I'm sure it's the heuristic looking at the copy protection Data wrote that makes it think CortexCommand is a trojan.
Author:  Grif [ Tue Jan 27, 2009 4:05 am ]
Post subject:  Re: False positive with Avast4
Probably has to do with the fact that the game checks the key server every time it starts up.
Author:  worldwaker [ Tue Jan 27, 2009 6:45 am ]
Post subject:  Re: False positive with Avast4
This wasn't just from Avast. http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/b1e5 ... 16c338f7c3
Author:  Exalion [ Tue Jan 27, 2009 11:57 am ]
Post subject:  Re: False positive with Avast4
I just had this problem my self. A few exceptions later and it's all better.

Although I'm adding this to my list of reasons I INTENSELY DISLIKE SCANCODE.
Author:  Miles_T3hR4t [ Wed Jan 28, 2009 4:32 am ]
Post subject:  Re: False positive with Avast4
you guys report it. I haven't had this problem yet, and if I do, oh well i'll probably just dissable avast to play
Author:  ProjektODIN [ Wed Jan 28, 2009 5:40 am ]
Post subject:  Re: False positive with Avast4
Hardcore 'bangers use AVG Free.
Author:  Ultric [ Wed Jan 28, 2009 2:07 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: False positive with Avast4
ProjektODIN wrote:
Hardcore 'bangers use AVG Free.

Please, tell me you're joking.
Author:  YoshiX [ Thu Jan 29, 2009 7:43 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: False positive with Avast4
If data used the crappy install maker than avast WILL pick it up as a trojan, for good reason. Most install creators out there place a nice trojan into it. The one I had did anyway :/ and I payed for it!
Author:  Grif [ Fri Jan 30, 2009 12:58 am ]
Post subject:  Re: False positive with Avast4
Data paid 1500 dollars for the license on the new sound system.

I don't think he used a shitty ukrainian .msi creator that comes with sixteen trojans.
Author:  mail2345 [ Fri Jan 30, 2009 7:56 am ]
Post subject:  Re: False positive with Avast4
All these warnings are due to the copy protection as far as I know.
A good amount of copy protection systems encrypt the exe and have it auto-decrypt, a behavior also done by Trojans to avoid detection.
Author:  Exalion [ Fri Jan 30, 2009 7:58 am ]
Post subject:  Re: False positive with Avast4
Yeah,

I currently think that Grif and mail's theory about avast getting upset when CC connects to the net for the licensing system is the most likely candidate. If I was an antivirus program I'd get antsy if some program kept connecting to the internet without asking whenever it started.

DAMNIT SCANCODE WE DON'T NEED FORT KNOX SECURITY FOR TWENTY BUCKS OF GAME!
Not to mention the fact that $10,000 audio programs with security systems as ludicrous as this (cubase) don't register as viruses.
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