Virus found

[Wildkins]

Check your AV's quarantine folder, if it's not there to restore then you may need to just reinstall. For the moment I would set your Discovery folder as an exception in your antivirus, though we are continuously working on new versions of this DLL to prevent these kind of false-positives from happening in the future.

[Ruud]

Check your AV's quarantine folder, if it's not there to restore then you may need to just reinstall. For the moment I would set your Discovery folder as an exception in your antivirus, though we are continuously working on new versions of this DLL to prevent these kind of false-positives from happening in the future.

Thank you for replying!
I told my AV, F-SEcure, to except the directory where I installed Freelancer and Discovery and as extra I told it to except CapitalClassFixes.dll. And all BEFORE installing everything. During the installation I didn't get any messages. But after the installation was ready, CapitalClassFixes.dll was nowhere to be found.
I think I simply give it another try.

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Kind regards / groetjes, Ruud Baltissen
www.Baltissen.org

[Ruud]

OK, I got things working again. For one or another reason I wasn't able to do so before but I extracted CapitalClassFixes.dll from the quarantine vault and now things work again.

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Kind regards / groetjes, Ruud Baltissen
www.Baltissen.org

[Richi]

Hi there.
Just a quick question. How long will your mod contain the Generik.BYWDRDV Trojan horse?
I just want you to not delete my account yet.
Thanks.

[Ashyur]

until someone rich and willing to pay antivirus company the 'license' to not 'recognize ' it as virus
it's just how antivirus works with normal scripts written, I have the same problem with the one written by me *some tears in my eyes *

[davo-cc]

For the baseline installer (discovery_5.00.8.exe) I'm getting virus detection triggers on Bitdefender and uploading it to VirusTotal shows Symantec, Eset-Nod32 and AliCloud flagging it for malware. While I'm pretty sure this will be a false positive I'm still irked by quite so many different engines throwing this concurrently; first time I've seen it for an installer like this.

Does anyone know if the devs have seen this or if it's a new phenomenon at all? Normally a single AV trigger is one thing but several concurrently alarms irks me somewhat. The sha256 hash for the download I'm getting is:

cd6c07c4ab80ce51f735d2f077defd545477bb8f995267123db416d0e998974d

[Haste]

For the baseline installer (discovery_5.00.8.exe) I'm getting virus detection triggers on Bitdefender and uploading it to VirusTotal shows Symantec, Eset-Nod32 and AliCloud flagging it for malware. While I'm pretty sure this will be a false positive I'm still irked by quite so many different engines throwing this concurrently; first time I've seen it for an installer like this.

The 5.0 installer still includes CapitalClassFixes.dll. While it's completely innocent (we've even released the source somewhere before) and just makes the game think ships of type GUNBOAT, CRUISER, etc. are "FREIGHTERs" so that control mapping works properly, it greatly upset a variety of antivirus software. Detection started shortly after launching 5.0, and I believe a virus "did the rounds" that injected code in a similar way, except of course maliciously. It's likely we got "swept up" in that.

We tried all sorts of things, but ultimately couldn't resolve this issue, and have since stripped out that .dll and instead baked the edits into the game executable/dlls directly. Unfortunately, as it's still included in the 5.0 installer, it gets flagged for it.

Here's me dropping that dll into VirusTotal:
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/de09...63fe21e3a3

We really should ship a new installer with 5.3 so people don't get jumpscared by a bunch of false positive detections.

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[davo-cc]

WOAH that's a lotta red in VirusTotal, I see what you mean. I'm glad this is a well known and diagnosed thing, makes me feel much more comfortable with the installation now - much appreciated.

The 5.3 installer - is that far off in the scheme of things do you think? What's involved with the packaging of a new installer like that generally? Just technically curious overall, I really do appreciate that this is an immense amount of work especially for a 22 year old title like this.

[Frank Rom]

False-Positive doesn't mean it's "false", it just means its not what your system defense software wants your computer to be reading and running. That said, not all Antimalware or Antivirus are the best choice for you. As for me I don't have any protection software installed on my system besides Windows Security on Win 11.

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