Lingon trainers..

[rkaye]

I find it ridiculous that GCW would advise the community to ignore TR/Black.Gen2. There has got to be another way that he can protect his trainers without such a trigger. Even my poopy linux home firewall goes bananas when attempting his recent submissions.

I understand the drive of GCW to be a primary game trainer site, but won't traffic take a dive if GCW becomes associated with hosting infected files, false positive notwithstanding?

The only middle road I see is for Lingon (or GCW) to submit his trainers directly to major AV companies for analysis and approval.

I'd feel better about this if Empire would at least say that they asked Lingon to look into trying to protect his trainers in a manner that doesnt yield AV hits.

[Cowsheep]

He should simply use original or proper cracked VMP and the problems will be gone.

[Joe Forster/STA]

Real anti-virus positives, genuine malware, on GCW are so rare that I don't remember of ever having seen one. (My memory is quite selective, though, so don't rely on it...) Of course, malicious people can upload tricky executables that look like a false positive but are actual positives, however this is unlikely. I suggest that, until you find a provedly real positive, you refrain from even suggesting that GCW may be hosting infected files because that's a serious accusation.

We have no contact to Lingon and, probably, he doesn't visit this forum and, even if he did, he wouldn't give a shit about our opinion - if he did listen to his users, he would've probably removed his "DRM" long ago - so your suggestions are completely in vain. And, I assure you, he won't bother to send samples of his executables to anti-virus companies, especially, if he really is using a (not fully) cracked, illegal version of the encryptor. Also, I don't think that any of us at GCW would have time for a possibly long correspondence, trying to persuade him into dropping the encryption. You see, we suggested Sicheats to remove theirs and they wouldn't listen to us - or their users, for that matter. I'm a bit pleased that you assume us to have such a power or control over the authors of hosted stuff but we have none at all: just like you, we can only make requests which they will or will not honor, it's up to them.

I think everything that needed to be said has been said. For the umpteenth time, I might add, so there's no point in continuing this discussion. In case someone still didn't get the conclusion: just with any other site, benevolent or not, it is up to you to decide what to download and their use on your own computer is your responsiblity and only yours. You can take that as an informal disclaimer.