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Virus Scanner - Trojan

kikinchazkikinchaz Member UncommonPosts: 562
in Lineage 2

After the latest L2 update my virus scanner is reporting L2.exe as a trojan.

 

Is anyone else getting this or have an update on the issue?

 

Im using Avast, but I found some unofficial L2 forums where people were complaining about the same thing with other scanners....

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  • eq2jseq2js Member Posts: 94

    It is not a trojan. It is an error with one of the files being replaced with different content but the same name, which makes your anti-virus think it is a Trojan. This once happened to me with WoW and AVG.

  • thamighty213thamighty213 Member UncommonPosts: 1,637

    AVG thinks its a trojan also and stops it updating and running correctly AVG uninstalled

  • kikinchazkikinchaz Member UncommonPosts: 562

    You can add the L2.exe to your exceptions list in the virus scanner which usually sorts it.

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  • MmoSwanMmoSwan Member Posts: 134

    You can't define exceptions in many free virus scanners. But you can always switch or report the problem to the virus scanner developers and wait for them to fix it.

    You'll get bigger problems with anti rootkit scanners and the likes because NcSoft chose two "protections" named game guard and Themida that use root kit techniques. Great software. Cause -_-loads of troubles and is unable to detect bots nor hacks or keyloggers. But it's marvelous at giving false alerts and killing applications like Firefox, Explorer and other normal programs.

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  • mrbishworkmrbishwork Member Posts: 44

    same thing happen to me but when i update my antivirus l2.exe not anymore detected as virus. . you just need to  update your  anti virus. . your anti virus detected some files of lineage 2 as virus. .  thats why we encounter problems like this. .  

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  • Shadow0429Shadow0429 Member Posts: 22

    Ignore it, don't let it ruin your fun on playing this game.

  • bojinxbojinx Member Posts: 172

    I checked around and found that this issue was posted on the official Lineage 2 forums

    boards.lineage2.com/showflat.php

    Here is an insert that I copied and pasted from the official forum boards written by Rohirrim:

    I searched around a little and found out that NOD32 flags L2.exe because it contains "Themida" (unless you have the latest update). It is used by NCSoft to hide some game processes, but the problem is that some viruses uses it to hide itself from windows and AV programs and that why it got flaged.

    NOD32 is a very good anti-virus  for detection rates and uses minimal resources (great for online gamers)..... I was very surprised about the false positive.

     

  • XenAeonXenAeon Member Posts: 52

    I know McAfee fixed the issue with their virus scanner.  I believe the issue was over the weekend.

     

    Do a check files to update any missing files that your virus scanner deleted.. should be good now.

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