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[Dalinoth]

I am a new player to BG2 EE and I just tried to download the aTweaks file to my BG2 EE steamapps/common/BG2EE folder.  During the download, my McAfee virus protection blocked the file transfer because it contained viruses.  Has anyone else had this happen?  Can someone from the aTweaks team please check on this? Thanks. 

[The Imp]

Well, the only thing I can say is that apparently McAfee is a bad virus protection program, see it checks for virus like code, not virus code and checks it's own database of programs that are allowed to have the same code, and if the program you have doesn't match any, the file is not allowed to be downloaded. See the cash flow problem there in ? Since the weidu.exe(in this case renamed to setup-modname.exe to take orders from similarly named setup-modname.tp2 -file) is a free program made by our own community, we don't have the mula(aka money) to get big cash rackets to allow our small little programs to exist. That is unless you don't trust those entities. Yeah, there are several false virus claims for years now. A little desclamer there, I didn't learn this from Jarno Mikkola, since technically I am him.

Edited by The Imp, 16 April 2020 - 08:40 AM.

[Dalinoth]

Thanks Jarno for letting me know.  Just curious, what virus protection software do you consider not "bad" then?

[Gwendolyne]

I confirm that the DL is safe. Obviously, it is a false positive.

[Cahir]

I had also false positive with either aTweaks or Rogue Rebalancing (don't remember which one now) and also with EEex. I'm using Bitdefender, which I definitely not consider as "bad" virus protection.

[Gwendolyne]

It seems to be due to WeiDU exe. White list it and it should be fine.

[Cahir]

<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote'data-author="Gwendolyne" data-cid="609011" data-time="1587060675"><p>
It seems to be due to WeiDU exe. White list it and it should be fine.</p></blockquote>

Yeah, it's exactly what I did. I'm curious, though, why only some mods get false-positive. Is it possible that some specific WeiDu version is generating these false positives?

[Dalinoth]

Thanks Cahir and Gwendolyne. I adjusted McAfee and downloaded the aTweaks file.  On a complete tangent, do either of you know of a mod (other than an archer kit) that fixes the nerfs made to bows and archery ammunition in BG2?

[ALIEN]

<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote'data-author="Gwendolyne" data-cid="609011" data-time="1587060675"><p>
It seems to be due to WeiDU exe. White list it and it should be fine.</p></blockquote>

Yeah, it's exactly what I did. I'm curious, though, why only some mods get false-positive. Is it possible that some specific WeiDu version is generating these false positives?

It depends on weidu version and antivirus type. I believe main reason for this is the fact that weidu uses UPX executable packer.

[The Imp]

It seems to be due to WeiDU exe. White list it and it should be fine.

Yeah, definitely a bad anti-virus program if a slave can petition to white list a program.

Truly there isn't any good anti-virus programs, just like there isn't any anti-virus hand sanitizers. Because the virus are not living organisms, you can't kill them, you need SOAP. Imagine then finding s news report of a German study of finding dead viruses and RNA in their near enviroments, while saying that they can't find a live one. -right.

My advice, don't use any critical data on your computer you play games with that you aren't willing to abandon on the fly. Credit cards, Social identification, IP address etc. 

Edited by The Imp, 16 April 2020 - 11:03 AM.

[Sam.]

I have checked it out, and can confirm that this is a false positive virus detection.  VirusTotal reports only 4 antivirus products (out of a long list) have an issue with this file, and of those, the only one I even recognize is McAfee.  I have submitted it for review as a false positive to SecureAge APEX, McAfee, and Trapmine.  I don't have contact info for whatever Cylance is.  For reference, fairly extensive instructions for how to submit false positives to most of the anti-virus companies can be found here.