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General FreeSpace => FreeSpace Discussion => Topic started by: Yarn on January 18, 2012, 05:23:38 pm
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For those of you who don't have the extra Sci-Fi Sim of the Year missions, I have uploaded them as a VP here:
http://www.freespacemods.net/download.php?view.824 (http://www.freespacemods.net/download.php?view.824)
Because the FS2NetD multiplayer pack has all the multiplayer Sci-Fi Sim of the Year missions, I have included only the single-player missions.
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For those of you who don't have the extra Sci-Fi Sim of the Year missions, I have uploaded them as a VP here:
http://www.freespacemods.net/download.php?view.824 (http://www.freespacemods.net/download.php?view.824)
Because the FS2NetD multiplayer pack has all the multiplayer Sci-Fi Sim of the Year missions, I have included only the single-player missions.
Hmmm, why am I getting a red-flag from my Anti-virus when I proceed to open this?
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For those of you who don't have the extra Sci-Fi Sim of the Year missions, I have uploaded them as a VP here:
http://www.freespacemods.net/download.php?view.824 (http://www.freespacemods.net/download.php?view.824)
Because the FS2NetD multiplayer pack has all the multiplayer Sci-Fi Sim of the Year missions, I have included only the single-player missions.
Hmmm, why am I getting a red-flag from my Anti-virus when I proceed to open this?
Looks clean to me? (https://www.virustotal.com/file/28d74162c5e67c2646d965eb98371f285b2e687dbe5845299f8790f302475967/analysis/1327748532/) What specifically does your antivirus report? It's fairly common for certain products to very easily report false-positives on legitimate files purely for heuristic reasons.
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For those of you who don't have the extra Sci-Fi Sim of the Year missions, I have uploaded them as a VP here:
http://www.freespacemods.net/download.php?view.824 (http://www.freespacemods.net/download.php?view.824)
Because the FS2NetD multiplayer pack has all the multiplayer Sci-Fi Sim of the Year missions, I have included only the single-player missions.
Hmmm, why am I getting a red-flag from my Anti-virus when I proceed to open this?
Looks clean to me? (https://www.virustotal.com/file/28d74162c5e67c2646d965eb98371f285b2e687dbe5845299f8790f302475967/analysis/1327748532/) What specifically does your antivirus report? It's fairly common for certain products to very easily report false-positives on legitimate files purely for heuristic reasons.
"Address:
http://www.freespacemods.net/download.php?view.824
Trend Micro has confirmed that this website can transmit malicious software or has been involved in online scams or fraud.
Please close this page.
Still want to open this page, despite the risk?
Copyright © 1995-2010 Trend Micro Incorporated. All right reserved."
Idk, but maybe my antivirus is just weird... :lol:
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"Address:
http://www.freespacemods.net/download.php?view.824
Trend Micro has confirmed that this website can transmit malicious software or has been involved in online scams or fraud.
Please close this page.
Still want to open this page, despite the risk?
Copyright © 1995-2010 Trend Micro Incorporated. All right reserved."
Idk, but maybe my antivirus is just weird... :lol:
FSMods has a comment about this (from 2009!): http://www.freespacemods.net/comment.php?comment.news.17 (http://www.freespacemods.net/comment.php?comment.news.17)
Either Trend Micro still thinks it's a malicious site, or they now know it's safe but your database isn't up to date.
Anyway, the file is safe as far as I know. It's just a short text file and a VP with unmodified files that were installed with an official version of FS2.
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i'll take this opportunity to submit my opinion that trend micro is a worthless pile of ****.
that is all.
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i'll take this opportunity to submit my opinion that trend micro is a worthless pile of ****.
that is all.
I know!! (you must be the 1000th person to tell me that) but its just that I got it free withe my HDD... and I am to Lazy to buy/download a better one...
BTW, yeah my databases are updated as of 28-01-2012!
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I know!! (you must be the 1000th person to tell me that)
He is! Click here to claim your prize! (http://bannerlink.derp)
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i'll take this opportunity to submit my opinion that trend micro is a worthless pile of ****.
that is all.
I know!! (you must be the 1000th person to tell me that) but its just that I got it free withe my HDD... and I am to Lazy to buy/download a better one...
BTW, yeah my databases are updated as of 28-01-2012!
you don't even need to buy one. AVG or MSE would both be better, and either is about 30 seconds to download and install.
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Try COMODO Internet Security. IMHO, it beats all other antivirus/firewall programs I've used. And it's also free.
The downside is that it's a little paranoid, so you have to "teach" it about all programs you want to use. You have to do this only once though.
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sometimes once is enough to royally bork you though. i had one catch a file in the middle of a patch installer. it halted the ONE file from being copied, but the installer (sort of) carried on. the result was some godawful mess of a patch job that left the game in a state where it wouldn't work, and flat out wouldn't run the patch again or its uninstaller (kinda like how the 1.06 patch wouldn't go over ST in FS1 retail). i don't remember exactly, but the final solution was something like manually delete the install folder and run a registry cleaner to get rid of leftover references, and then reinstall the 10+ GB. and i didn't even have the install disks with me at school, i had to wait for the next holiday break i went home for.
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sometimes once is enough to royally bork you though. i had one catch a file in the middle of a patch installer. it halted the ONE file from being copied, but the installer (sort of) carried on. the result was some godawful mess of a patch job that left the game in a state where it wouldn't work, and flat out wouldn't run the patch again or its uninstaller (kinda like how the 1.06 patch wouldn't go over ST in FS1 retail). i don't remember exactly, but the final solution was something like manually delete the install folder and run a registry cleaner to get rid of leftover references, and then reinstall the 10+ GB. and i didn't even have the install disks with me at school, i had to wait for the next holiday break i went home for.
This has happened to me like 5 times already... Why do they make AV's so ****ty?
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because most review publications rate it on the number of detections, and it hasn't been until very recently that anyone paid attention to false positives. and slapping a "highest rated" sticker on the box of antivirus does wonders for sales.
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Microsoft Security Essentials (http://windows.microsoft.com/mse) (free, great, I use it)
AVG Free (http://free.avg.com) great, I used to use it but switched to MSE when it started getting bloated around version 9. Not sure, they may have fixed the bloat by now.
I know a lot of people also use Avast! Personal Edition and are happy too.
As always, make sure you uninstall your other Anti-Virus before using these.
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i use MSE on my desktop and AVG on my laptop (which is used for more... dubious tasks... :nervous:)
AVG is still a bit heavier, yes, but it also is a bit more powerful with the link scanner/bad page blocker and whatnot. i'm not sure i'd call it bloated, other than the little bits of nag trying to get you to buy pro (don't bother with the system scanner or any of that mess).
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They must have fixed the bloat then. I guess there was a version 10, and now they've switched to using the year, and it's version 2012.0.xxxx http://www.filehippo.com <-- get yer good here.
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Thanks guys, will try them both. I used to use AVG some 5 years ago, wasn't that good then, will try it out now..
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Just to re-iterate, don't try them both at the same time... ;)
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Just to re-iterate, don't try them both at the same time... ;)
Heh... I know that!( not to toot my own horn, I am a registered comp. tech). I remember this one dude of mine who had five AVs at once, and worst of all, he set them all to run a boot scan (to clear up all the viruses, he said ;) )
Needless to say that he need a re-format.
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:lol: