Kube Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 Why is my antivirus picking up the patcher as a trojan horse? I'm not asking how to get past it or anything, I've already done that. But why on earth am I running something that is potentially hazardous to my computer's safety? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Delly Sandwiches Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 Nuuuuu! Some anti-virus think that CL is a virus but the truth is,it is NOT CL are safe! Just ignore it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Bisul Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 disable your antivirus if wanna play celes sir! (i always do it) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Kube Posted March 15, 2012 Author Share Posted March 15, 2012 No, I get that it's apparently false, but why does it pick it up? I can play CL perfectly fine, but I want to know why it's being condiered malicious. Antivirus is essentially nothing more than a dictionary. It holds "definitions" of several viruses, their characteristics, how they disguise themselves and all that. So I want to know what in the patcher makes CL look like a virus. Probably not a question that can be answered by anyone other than the people who work on the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Biohazard Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 my anti virus program doesn't flag it as a virus and i know other programs that don't. if anything its your anti virus programmers that have got something wrong and @bisul are you insane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Zairul Reidwan R Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 well probably your antivirus pick it up as virus because we modified the luna client so that people can actually open up more than 2 client without the need of using 3rd party program (example sandboxie) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Antoni77 Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 Celestia Luna it's Safety Game... so no need worry even your Anti-V detect some Data of Celes as Virus... you can just Uninstall your Anti-V and install another Anti-V... I use "Avira", it's recommended... XD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Wist Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 It's mainly because most of the popular Anti-Viruses (Norton, AVG, Avast, Essentials etc.etc) use a database that is driven by customer input. No Anti-Virus in the world can have data on every single potential program available to a user so it stores data about all the different programs via data sent from people that are using the Anti Virus. That way it builds up a database of the popular programs and starts to learn which things are considered safe. If you run a program that hardly anyone uses or a program that it has no data on, like an online game client, it will tell you that the file is dangerous, even though it isn't, because the Anti-Virus software believes it's better to not open an unknown file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Why is my antivirus picking up the patcher as a trojan horse? I'm not asking how to get past it or anything, I've already done that. But why on earth am I running something that is potentially hazardous to my computer's safety?
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