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Dungeonlike

Turn based roguelike with an advanced health system · By Sheriour

Virus

A topic by Mark Alan created Apr 18, 2018 Views: 438 Replies: 6
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Google Chrome and Panda Anti-Virus regard your archive as a virus.

Developer (1 edit)

Will investigate why that is. Removed the archive from the downloads section for now.

First, when I download Dungeonlike archive in Google Chrome, I get the message "Dungeonlike v.03.1.exe in not commonly downloaded and may be dangerous."    So I select "Keep" to download the archive to my desktop.  Then Panda Anti-Virus intercepts it by deleting the archive giving me the following message:  "Virus detected W32/Exploit.gen".  Hope that helps.

Developer

I've done some research and it seems this is a false positive for Panda that comes up from time to time on their forums, and it's affecting some of the .exe files. As I keep uploading Dungeonlike in a SFX archive, it's always a different .exe file each time, so maybe I should just do a simple .zip instead, as many people on Itch.io seem to be doing. 

Not sure how up to date your Panda is (it being out of date seems like the only explanation as to why my freshly installed version does not flag any issues while your does), but I see they keep getting posts on their forums about this (bunch of forum posts), then developers submit apps to be whitelisted and that gets updated in next versions.

Anyway, thanks for raising this and for the follow up with details! Got me quite scared there for a second when I realised that I don't perform any scans on these archives before uploading them, so there always was a chance for a virus to tag along. Added a routine antivirus scan to my list of "deployment procedures" I perform before any version is released, just to keep it safer.

Developer

I ran Sophos on it, in both archived and extracted formats, didn't bring anything up. Would you be so kind to show me some report from Panda Anti-Virus which identifies the virus it found in the archive?

Developer

If anybody is waiting for the file to be back up for download, I will install and run Panda Anti-Virus on the archive at home later tonight (seeing as this is the antivir which found the issue) and if it doesn't pick anything up in there, I will re-enable the download. I'm pretty confident there is nothing wrong with the archive, but I'd rather check it out myself.

Developer
Got Panda Anti-Virus, ran a scan of that archive and as you can see below, nothing was detected. Considering that I've run two antivirus programs on it by now without any finds, I will re-enable the download. I suppose you had a false positive there, but not sure why I wouldn't get it as well in my scan, considering that we are using the same software.

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