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Reality Factory + Virus = yes?

Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 7:10 am
by Zentu
While installing Reality Factory my Anti-Virus (Avira Antivir) detected a Virus.
[HEUR/Exploit.HTML] in file "Reality Factory\tools\is-NFPOB.tmp". I have used
Reality Factory on other computers with no problems. Why does the
download have a Virus on it now?

I hope its a false positive so I can start using RF on my new computer.

Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 12:10 pm
by Sph!nx
Well, I have no idea actually. I've had a similair problem once before, although not with Reality Factory. In my case, the download went wrong and the file got corrupted.

My suggestion is to re-download RF and try again.

Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 12:27 pm
by bernie
Could be your virus scanner giving a false positive. It does happen with some porgs although I've never known it happen with RF. You can be rest assured there is definately no virus in RF

Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 8:03 pm
by QuestOfDreams
There is no virus/dialer/trojan/etc. in RF.
In this case Antivir is giving a false positive as bernie suspected. The file Antivir is complaining about is a temporary file created by the Inno Setup program (the installation program RF075A is packed with). I thought Avira had solved this problem months ago but apparently they re-introduced this problem in a later version. You may ask about it on the Antivir support forum if you want this statement confirmed.