Virus?

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I don't believe a word of that "Paradox put a virus in the files." stuff. It's just the way the editor works. If people were having their private information stolen by the game, and enough people told about it and it turned out that it did have a virus - then you would have the basis to point the blame at Paradox. But in all modesty, I think that it's just the editor.

Even if there was a virus, I don't think it would be intentional. The best security networks can be cracked - look no further than Microsoft...

 

[coreymas]

It is not a virus. Simple... and this is not the first time that the editor has been detected erroneously as a virus.

None of the other virus programs are detecting it as a virus....

If you dont use the editor then quaranteen it/delete it move it somewhere else....

As an editor it is of very limited use anyways....

Corey

 

[Ruisert]

Yes, I'm pretty sure this is a false positive. I just updated AVG and got the warning. Scared the holy crapola outta me because I have been doing some dodgy things lately (I'm an IT security student). I ran a full system scan and this was the only problem I found with AVG. Spybot and BOClean didn't squawk at all, but you never know. That's why I run several of those things, you never know what one will miss. And since I don't use the editor and I'm running out of disk space anyway I went ahead and 'cured' it.
Then I Googled downloader.agent.akrq (what AVG says it is) and this forum is the only hit I got. So, in my somewhat professional opinion, it's a false positive due to a bad definition. But you can quarantine it until we get an official false alarm alert from Paradox.