I Got A Trojan From Nexuiz 2.3

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Your antivirus software has just informed you the package you downloaded has a virus, do you:

a) Verify the source you downloaded from is legit
b) Alert the developers to a possible issue
c) Bitch, moan, threaten, post incorrect information on wikipedia in all caps to warn people of this false positive you are assuming is a real virus because you are not one to be reckoned with.

[The mysterious Mr. 4m]

this is very interesting from a psychological point of view.

[fronten]

infact this piece of crap called human did not only add his wrong opinion to wikipedia, he also DELETED the original History written there..

[Mirio]

erm ?



http://alientrap.org/nexuiz/
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/nexuiz/nexuiz-242.zip

[mwillams73]

First my AVG only said it was a General Trojan and removed with no difficulty what soever, my problem was i wanted to know if this was normal and what i should do. Secondly, I did not know there was a new version until i checked the news forums. Third, I refuse to pay four thousand dollars for a computer made by mac, when i have a pc for a third the price and is more versatile. Fourth i got the version of the game from sourceforge which this site sent me to.Fifth I changed the history on wikipedia because thats why its there so people can inform others of possible problems and in my haste i deleted the original history for that im sorry. Sixth if you do not have information that is helpful I would prefer that you not reply, Seven I was not frightened by the trojan I just wanted know whether any one else had this problem or if somehow i had made a mistake. Eighth thank you for the replies that where helpfull and provided me with imformation i needed. Ninth I am new to playing open source games and i am still learning, i started with alien arena and shadowflare of which i have had no problems and enjoyed them very much, so i found sauerbraten/cube2 and also enjoyed it, I found a few freeware sites that showcased Neuiz and thought it was interesting and i thought id check it out and here we are ive never had this problem with any of the other opensource games and i thought i would alert those who might be able to do some thing about it. And finally Ten Iwas alil peeved about the trojan and maybe i said and did some things out of haste and inexpeirence for that i am sorry i didnt mean to impune this ste or cause any problems I hope all of you will understand that yes Im a neewb but i felt it was important to alert those without knowledge of this before they did anything that could cause problems with their machines not everyone uses the proper antivirus and antispyware protection and i was only trying to be helpful in my neewbie sort of way.

[HarryButt]

That thing with the Mac was optional Though I'm using one not because of this particular reason.
Next time, please don't panic and don't haste and rush in with your judgement, because there are people who definitely will feel offended.

Did you get the new version already?
Does it work now?

[mwillams73]

Actually, I remember something. Nexuiz 2.3 was indeed flagged as a possible trojan by some antivirus. The cause however was laughable: it was TGA files with a very high compression ratio in the .pk3. The antivirus thought Nexuiz was an attack on virus scanners like 42.zip (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decompression_bomb), but all it really was was a mostly black TGA file and 7zip compressing it well.

But this has been fixed, by RLE compressing the TGAs that (in that case in the past) ClamAV reported, so RLE does part of the compression and zip doesn't do such a high compression ratio. In any case, a clear example of stupid heuristics.

As you can plainly see fronten its not an opinion but a fact and call me a piece of crap all you want but human never!

[mwillams73]

Im downloading it now unfortunatly i have avery slow connection so itll be awhile which is why i was so peeved originally but im keeping my fingers crossed

[HarryButt]

Try a download manager like GetRight. You can pause your download and continue at any time, whenever your want. I used this stuff a lot when I still had dial-up connection.
Though I don't know if the SourceForge servers support these download accelerators...

[mwillams73]

Your antivirus software has just informed you the package you downloaded has a virus, do you:

a) Verify the source you downloaded from is legit
b) Alert the developers to a possible issue
c) Bitch, moan, threaten, post incorrect information on wikipedia in all caps to warn people of this false positive you are assuming is a real virus because you are not one to be reckoned with.

You forgot D) All of the above