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wargas
Newbie
Joined: 28 Jul 2002
Posts: 1
Location: Sweden
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 Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2002 8:11 pm
Virus ?
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bck/irk.mapsy
When i install the zmud 6.36 b
My virus progam screams about the virus bck/irk.mapsy.
Did a search took away all viruses, and did a new download. Same problem when installing again.
Is my virus program caputt or is it something that doesnt work..
Virus program is Panda titanium |
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Lalaynya
Wanderer
Joined: 23 Aug 2002
Posts: 96
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Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2002 8:16 pm
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If you downloaded zMud from this site, I can gaurantee that there is no virus. Check to see if there are updates available for Panda, if not, you may want to e-mail them and let them know that it's coming up with false positives. I'd e-mail them the link to the download, so they can check/test it themselves.
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Kjata
GURU
Joined: 10 Oct 2000
Posts: 4379
Location: USA
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Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2002 5:34 am
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Yeah, what Lalaynya said. The problem is that some antivirus programs think the zMUD executable contains a virus because it is encrypted.
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Zugg
MASTER
Joined: 25 Sep 2000
Posts: 23379
Location: Colorado, USA
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Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2002 10:41 pm
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Update your virus program to the latest version and make sure you are using the latest virus definition files.
Or, use a more reputable virus checker. I use FSecure myself and it's great. Never heard of Panda.
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Lalaynya
Wanderer
Joined: 23 Aug 2002
Posts: 96
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Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2002 11:27 pm
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quote:
Update your virus program to the latest version and make sure you are using the latest virus definition files.
Or, use a more reputable virus checker. I use FSecure myself and it's great. Never heard of Panda.
Panda is a decent virus checker... Although I normally don't recommend it, because I like Norton better. The one case that I recommend Panda is for Win95 computers... McAffee and Norton no longer support Win95.
I have to use McAffee at work, and hate it, and I've NEVER had a problem with Norton. I love the auto-update of virus definitions, I never have to worry about them. The best I can do at work is to have it notify me that an update is available, and half the time it makes me reboot just to update the definitions. |
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MattLofton
GURU
Joined: 23 Dec 2000
Posts: 4834
Location: USA
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Posted: Sat Oct 26, 2002 6:51 am
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I've got McAffee running and it's been steadily updating itself without raising a fuss or demanding I reboot. It's a damn finicky application to initially install, though, and I used to have all sorts of problems with the AV in general because of a botched install.
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Kjata
GURU
Joined: 10 Oct 2000
Posts: 4379
Location: USA
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Posted: Sat Oct 26, 2002 2:11 pm
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I stopped using Norton myself when they introduced the subscription-based virus definition update. I now use AVG by GRISoft. It's free, the virus definiton updates are also free, it has an auto-update feauture, it uses heuristic analysis to detect unkown viruses, and it has never given me any problems with zMUD or any other program.
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