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I think people need to understand the reason THIS file is triggering the security warning.
If you have websites blocked at work, it is likely a list of websites your employer purchased to meet their internet viewing policies. (It's likely a service the company purchased and this list is a part of it) The people making the list, add websites to it all the time, as they created, or as they are discovered as fitting the criteria of the category they are blocking. This is the same type of thing. One of the many players here likely submitted the file to McAfee for evaluation. This may have been malicious, it may have not. McAfee looked at the file and determined "We don't know what this is. It could be dangerous". Not because they KNOW it's dangerous, but because they don't know what it is and therefore can't guarantee it's safety. They added it to it's list of things to flag as "Generic11". You see they didn't give it it's own name. They added it to a list of generic stuff, all of which fits this same category of "we don't know, but just in case here is a warning" warnings. The file is now on a "list" and they buy each others lists. Misflagging happens ALL THE TIME. Google Generic11 to read. Here is one example: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/391984?tstart=0 http://securityandthe.net/2008/11/10...-windows-file/ Quote:
You could play "safe" and not join the fun or you can trust the guy providing free Classic Everquest gaming to thousands of people for the last five years without incident. | |||
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Lyra - I copied your post into it's own brand new thread b/c I thought you did a good job of explaining this. I'd like to add this as well:
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I'm told a number of high end scanners like Kaspersky's (read: Mcaffee, Norton, are horrible at virus protection. Biggest scam in the industry IMO. AVG is good but since a lot of their business is free I'm betting they don't have the staff to check for false-positives like this and remove them). For the longest time this file didn't get picked up on any scanner (~4ish years) and no one has ever reported it doing anything malicious to their computer. This leads me to believe the "someone submitted it" theory, possibly to try to thwart Project 1999 (Disclaimer: I'm pulling this out of my ass, but it makes sense). The DLL literally has not been touched in forever, so it's not like we added something in that would make it start getting flagged as malicious. Quote:
In order to circumvent the DLL flagging, simply disable your anti-virus software and re-enable it after launching EQ. This shouldn't be required with better scanners. | ||||
Last edited by Derubael; 09-18-2014 at 07:10 PM..
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