I Got A Trojan From Nexuiz 2.3

[mwillams73]

I went to wikipedia and saw a link to download Nexuiz so i did after It finished i went to extract the zip file and my AVG 8 said it caught a general trojan, Has anyone else had this problem and dont blame it on my AVG its never been wrong and it updates every 4 hours, keep in mind that the link brought me to this website so what gives is this place a trap? I dont who your trying to fool but im not one to be messed with and rest assured i will be writing many reviews about this site in the future. I hope that the administraters of this site read this and are prepared to fix the problem, by the way i went back to wikipedia and posted on the history of this game what i have written here. I just realised that i downloaded an older version and that may be the problem but if i download 2.4.2 and have the same result i will be very unhappy.

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Yes, this game is designed to trigger antivirus software as to increase the difficulty of playing the game. If you have a good hex-editor, you should easily be able to remove this false virus from the game's binary and begin enjoying the game.

[Alien]

Firstly learn to use your PC before writting anything. Otherwise other people will laugh from you.

There is Nexuiz listed here. Check before downloading.

[Ed]

I dont who your trying to fool but im not one to be messed with and rest assured i will be writing many reviews about this site in the future. I hope that the administraters of this site read this and are prepared to fix the problem

Go on then, prove in the source code that Nexuiz is a trojan.

Why are you downloading 2.3? Why aren't you downloading 2.4.2? Where are you downloading it from? Why are you still running an OS thats so fundamentally insecure that you have to have 3rd party software to protect it from attack?

[divVerent]

Without the NAME of the suspected trojan, nothing can be checked. What is the NAME of the trojan AVG reported?

[halogene]

Why are you still running an OS thats so fundamentally insecure that you have to have 3rd party software to protect it from attack?

That's a good one - I must remember that

[HarryButt]

So, to give a résumé on the points that were mentioned here.

To avoid such a mess in the future, you have to make sure, that:
1) If the game is obviously freeware and you can get it legally, then get it from the OFFFICIAL website and only the NEWEST version.
2) Avoid third party websites when looking for Open Source software, especially the ones with "crackz hackz warez" tags all around.
3) [optional] Screw Windows and use Linux or a Macintosh for surfing, so that you don't have to care about all this virus stuff...
4) Stop threatening the developers, this crap is frustrating to read and is just plain stupid.
If there is a solution, you're gonna get it here, just stop whining.

What is the NAME of the trojan AVG reported?

[Daedalus]

by the way i went back to wikipedia and posted on the history of this game what i have written here.

he really did it.
some people never stop to surprise me.

[divVerent]

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.

[C.Brutail]

Apart from that, I'm truly disappointed in some of you guys
Clearly he was frightened.
Or...