Author Topic: virus i got tonite (Read 1572 times)

[TiG]Fli · « **on:** February 18, 2005, 10:09:47 PM »

just a heads up guys,ran avg tonite and this little bugger poped up.might be no harm for you to run a scan on your bfv folder just to make sure its ok,it was hiding in the eReg folder btw

[TiG]Devil_Monkey · « **Reply #1 on:** February 19, 2005, 01:29:52 AM »

Scanning...
Just found the same in all EZ files from EA.
1942, '42RtR, '42SWoWWII, NFSU and Nam.
Using AVG, only discovered now.
I assume its an AVG issue.

[TiG]valen · « **Reply #2 on:** February 19, 2005, 09:53:29 AM »

Well spoted!! I got the same and killed the wee fucker!!

:twisted:

Jackabo82 · « **Reply #3 on:** February 19, 2005, 02:09:55 PM »

Whats the virus do ?

[TiG]Devil_Monkey · « **Reply #4 on:** February 19, 2005, 02:39:52 PM »

It more than likely doesn't.
I think it is an AVG false alarm.
Latest Norton on other PC spotted nothing.
It also picks up on some files in sun/java/archives or similar directory.
Did the same to a mate's PC while I was in Limerick.
Just an AVG wobbler.

In fact, scan disc3(red) of Nam. Guess what turns up.
Either EA have been infecting us since pre-NFSU and every other AV-scanner is in on it or AVG is twitchy.

But it is nice to be alerted to the mere risk of a NAM infection.
A real one wouldn't be funny.

[TiG]Fli · « **Reply #5 on:** February 19, 2005, 06:10:48 PM »

i didnt know if it was serious or not,i just wanted to pass the warning round the bfv community

[TiG]Devil_Monkey · « **Reply #6 on:** February 19, 2005, 07:42:44 PM »

Any idea if EA or AVG know about it?

tig|Bosco · « **Reply #7 on:** February 19, 2005, 07:54:22 PM »

It's probably just a glitch as Devil says. Virus scanners work by looking for patterns (heuristics I think they're called) in files that match paterns made by virus infection. Occasionally a file can have one of these patterns in it purely by chance.

...then again...maybe it is a virus, what do I know

[TiG]Devil_Monkey · « **Reply #8 on:** February 20, 2005, 02:26:44 PM »

It locked them away in AVG's equivolent of Guantanamo Bay so it doesn't really matter.
Think it 'healed' the .zip files in the java directory.
I'm happy, not like I needed EZ_registration anyway.

[TiG]Winters · « **Reply #9 on:** February 20, 2005, 04:37:56 PM »

Quote from: [TiG]Devil_Monkey

not like I needed EZ_registration anyway.

Well, even if you did use the registration, EA seem to forget about Ireland.

[TiG]Devil_Monkey · « **Reply #10 on:** February 21, 2005, 02:06:47 PM »

Yeah.

Putting an end to this, new definitions are out and a scan of CD1 of Nam now reveals no issues with EA EZreg stuff.

If it had been true, it would have been scarey.
Cheers fli.

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