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10:22 am
September 6, 2009


Melanie

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OK, everyone, bottom line is if your anti virus software tries to tell you that the file game-r.exe is bad, you should tell it, “No, game-r.exe is good!”  So 

Immune Attack will not work with out that file. 


About anti virus programs: 

As Wolach wrote below, antivirus programs look at certain characteristics of software programs.  Many software programs share characteristics with viruses, but that is just a coincident.  


Please keep your comments and questions coming!!!

Melanie

8:23 pm
September 3, 2009


wolach

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It looks like the reporting of TR/Spy.Gen from antivir is actually just a program routine, not an actual trojan.  From AntiVir's site:

“A generic detection routine designed to detect common family characteristics shared in several variants.”

Given that description from AntiVir i'm confident that game-r.exe is just trying to do something that falls within the defined characteristics, but I'll trust that FAS doesn't have nefarious intent, so this is simply a false positive.  Thanks for your time.


8:05 pm
September 3, 2009


wolach

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Hi Melanie,


I apologize in advance if this comes of as course, but your assessment of DMC's issue is just plain incorrect.

I just experienced the exact same issue as DMC just now after attempting to install immune attack.  To address your point, the archive I used was the complete 519 MB (544,374,784 bytes to be exact).

As a matter of accuracy, virusese cannot simply piggyback on a file I've downloaded. I downloaded only “ImmuneAttackSetup.exe” from your server, nothing else.  The virus in question was located within game-r.exe, the very executable that DMC could not find previously, since anti-vir never allowed it to be copied.

Game-r.exe is the executable that is run when you double-click 'Run Immune Attack' on the desktop, therefore virus is most certainly contained within your installer.

My installation was completely successfull except for game-r.exe not being present as my antiviru software prohibited copying.  I'm still very interested in testing this game; if you could forward this issue on to someone invovled with the game's distribution I would greatly appreciate it, and I'm sure DMC would as well.

Feel free to email me with any follow up: wolach at gmail.com


-Adam

9:54 am
July 28, 2009


Melanie

Admin

posts 16

Post edited 10:23 am – September 6, 2009 by Melanie


Dear DMC,


Thanks for writing.


If Immune Attack installed properly, you should see an icon on your desktop that says “Run Immune Attack.”  If you do not see it then the program did not install.  


You should check the downloaded file.  If the downloaded file is less than 519 MB, then the download was not complete and you need to repeat the download.


Please keep in touch and let me know when you have it working!


Melanie 

2:42 pm
July 27, 2009


DMC

Guest

During installation of Immune Attack, I recieved this message from AnitVir

virus program:


Virus or unwanted program 'TR/Spy.Gen [trojan]'
detected in file
'C:\Program Files\Escape Hatch Entertainment\ImmuneAttack\Game-r.exe.
Action performed: Deny access


I denied the file access to my system.  Installation proceeded and ended with

report that intallation was successfull.  But in the games file folder there was no

.exe file to boot the game.

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