=Phil= Posted June 30, 2005 Share Posted June 30, 2005 Just wondering if it's just me who had this pop up or if anyone else with AVG Anti virus got the same thing? Oh yeah, it successfully cleaned the file. Link to comment
The Azer Posted June 30, 2005 Share Posted June 30, 2005 Your virus scanner informs you that the Multi Theft Auto 0.5 executeable is a virus or malwareMTA does not contain any viruses, malware, adware or spyware. If your virus scanner informs you that it is infected, either you have a virus on your computer that is infecting your files, or one of our mirrors has been infected with a virus or your virus scanner is making a mistake. McAfee has been known to make this mistake. We've informed NAI of this, but they've yet to fix it. In the meantime, disable your virus scanner while playing. Also, ensure you only download from this site. This link is hosted by our webhost. Use this if you doubt the validity of your copy of MTA. Link to comment
Harry Posted June 30, 2005 Share Posted June 30, 2005 JUst remove the virus that infected the file Link to comment
*SmartiE* Posted June 30, 2005 Share Posted June 30, 2005 mcafee always picks up up as a virus but i scanned it with Norton and it was clean so... theres sumit wrong in Mcafee <_ Link to comment
eAi Posted June 30, 2005 Share Posted June 30, 2005 We've told mcafee that its a false positive (search the forum for more info), but they don't appear to care. I use AVG myself, and its never picked up MTA as a virus, but then, as I don't actually have MTA installed, it might do now. I'm certain that it doesn't contain a virus though, as long as you've downloaded it from this site. Link to comment
orappa Posted June 30, 2005 Share Posted June 30, 2005 Actually the Known Issues thread only refers to the main MTAClient.exe executable. The image shown above clearly states that the "virus" is detected in the Uninstall.exe file, which is new to me. I could understand it detecting the main exe for virus-like activity because it edits GTA's memory addresses but the uninstall utility doesn't (or at least shouldn't) do this. Therefore it sounds as if you do actually have a virus. It may not necessarily have been in the file when you downloaded it but the virus may have attached itself to that file. Link to comment
MTA Team Blokker_1999 Posted June 30, 2005 MTA Team Share Posted June 30, 2005 It is possible the uninstaller gets picked up due to the fact that it deletes register keys. Also the virus itself is not inside the online DB from AVG. Dropper does ecist and is a virus that infects the boot sector of a HDD but Dropper.Generic.EX is unknown Link to comment
Guest Posted July 9, 2005 Share Posted July 9, 2005 McAfee and AVG are both bullshit virus scanners...It doesn't srprise me that their scanners are inaccurate. Link to comment
Mike Posted July 9, 2005 Share Posted July 9, 2005 McAfee and AVG are both bullshit virus scanners...It doesn't srprise me that their scanners are inaccurate. They're actually perfectly good virus scanners, I've used them both and never had any problems (with viruses or false alerts) Link to comment
Guest Posted July 9, 2005 Share Posted July 9, 2005 McAfee had me install a whole bunch of shit onto my computer (like AOL promotions and that shit). It also would uninstall, it'd always 'fail' half-way thru the uninstall window. And AVG...is just bad. Norton and ZoneAlarm is better. Link to comment
Mike Posted July 9, 2005 Share Posted July 9, 2005 McAfee had me install a whole bunch of shit onto my computer (like AOL promotions and that shit). What version did you get? Some free one? and you probably ticked all the boxes and didn't bother to read the agreement saying that it would install that stuff, got yourself to blame. Link to comment
=Phil= Posted July 9, 2005 Author Share Posted July 9, 2005 McAfee had me install a whole bunch of shit onto my computer (like AOL promotions and that shit). It also would uninstall, it'd always 'fail' half-way thru the uninstall window. And AVG...is just bad. Norton and ZoneAlarm is better. I have to disagree, I had to format my PC 4 times with Norton because it failed to detect a virus which kept crippling my PC.. Any yes i did update it everyday and scan once a week. Link to comment
Harry Posted July 10, 2005 Share Posted July 10, 2005 And zonealarm just sucks. You'd better just only use the Windohs firewall. Zonealarm and a 'performed an opereration on something that is not a socket' ... AAARRRGGG... dont touch the TCP/IP stack please! Link to comment
Guest Posted July 10, 2005 Share Posted July 10, 2005 McAfee had me install a whole bunch of shit onto my computer (like AOL promotions and that shit). What version did you get? Some free one? and you probably ticked all the boxes and didn't bother to read the agreement saying that it would install that stuff, got yourself to blame. Uhhh...no, it came with my Dell. I actually didn't even agree to have McAfee installed, since I had norton. ZoneAlarm is pretty good, but it does have ALOT of false alarms and it's very sensitive. Link to comment
orappa Posted July 10, 2005 Share Posted July 10, 2005 I used to use ZoneAlarm but whenever my computer crashed, it said that the crash could have been caused by a hacker and it had disabled internet access as a precaution. I then had to go through a complicated procedure to get it back that involved editing several files and restarting the machine twice. This got incredibly annoying so I uninstalled the program. Link to comment
Southern Finest Posted July 10, 2005 Share Posted July 10, 2005 Someone probably used a trojan dropper and dropped the trojan in your pc when one of your ports was left open (i.e. mta port) Wasn't caused by an uninstaller. Probably best to just go more careful Link to comment
-]GTAM[-C@rTun3r Posted July 11, 2005 Share Posted July 11, 2005 where can i download it? Link to comment
ChrML Posted July 14, 2005 Share Posted July 14, 2005 I suggest you all install all the Windows Updates before you blame antivirus software and firewalls. I'm assuming you all know that without them, antivirus software work very innefficiently because they have to remove another virus every 5 minutes, and already installed viruses can also cause problems with firewalls. Why continiously repair problems when you can prevent them? Link to comment
[KFC]KungFu Posted July 14, 2005 Share Posted July 14, 2005 I don't actually have MTA installed [/irony] Link to comment
Guest Posted July 17, 2005 Share Posted July 17, 2005 AVG has always worked for me. Mcaffery I've heard isn't that great but I've yet to have a problem with AVG. Link to comment
Laloutre Posted August 24, 2005 Share Posted August 24, 2005 Hi, I use Norton Antivirus, and he say my MTAclient.exe is infected See the symantec page about this : http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/bloodhound.morphine.html Link to comment
Guest Posted August 24, 2005 Share Posted August 24, 2005 see: http://securityresponse.symantec.com/av ... phine.html for a new virus that i have detected on mta0.5 Link to comment
Gamefreek Posted August 24, 2005 Share Posted August 24, 2005 Please stop double posting. Link to comment
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