Gothic 2 Gold Edition crack virus? Nice.

[Greyslayer]

Okay, I just tried the crack by Reloaded and my AntiVir said something about a virus signature of "Ider.A.Rkit". My AV was going crazy trying to block it and delete it so I got paranoid and deleted it out of the game folder then system volume file wtf. Anyone else get this msg?

[nea]

Same with me

[Sidney]

A couple of happy Norton users no doubt.

[Greyslayer]

Norton? What a amazing guess you've made! Eh, no. I'm using AntiVir a german AV. Norton must be what the people at Nforce bitching about the crack are using. And isn't the problem with Norton that it does NOT detect viruses? I'm not quite sure what you were trying to say with Norton. I'd rather have false positives than complete failure to detect. But I'm thinking something is amiss based on it's behaviour for me and others.

[Grumpy]

@Sidney
A couple of happy Norton users no doubt.
Personally Ive never had a problem with Nortons! ;)

[munsterbuster]

Thats why I have gone away from Norton and free AV-Software. They are not always knowing what they are doing. :D
The "crack", its more a loader, has a rootkit package included. Its fine.

[DABhand]

Yeah this time norton isnt the culprit for false reports.


Its called scaremongering, they see something similar to a trojan/virus and the program raises shields and goes nuts.


Ever since symantec did this system of figuring out if a known virii has varients just by extrapolating, its all gone down hill.

[Joe Forster/STA]

That system is called "heuristics" and it works very well, IF designed properly. (See F-Prot and NOD32 for two good examples and a lot of others for bad ones.) ;)

[DABhand]

Yeah, I mean what it does is scaremongering, creating a sense of insecurity when there is none.

[Joe Forster/STA]

Perhaps. However, false positives are still much better than false negatives!