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So my anti-virus picked up a Trojan last night emminating from a game I got off gog.com "Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds".
appeared to affect the player.exe file flagging as a PHW-Banker Trojan, I've had this game for a long time and it never flagged anything before in previous scans.
however around March 3rd, players who'd bought the game from steam, humble bundle and gog all started reporting recieving different hits from antivirus, one Trojan, the other an info stealer file, no one has both, but it did seem to depend on their antivirus.
Some people have said flat out its a false positive created by the player.exe file because it was the multiplayer file from way back when and something to do with that.
I'm inclined to believe it's a false positive because I immediately quarantined the file, deleted the game completely, ran a full system scan and nothing, I then proceeded to run a thorough no holds barred full system scan in safe mode and malware byte scan and nothing at all came up.
However what irks me about when the virus scanner prompted the alert was when my wife visited the wal mart website to do online shopping, could it have laid dormant in my Mozilla? I have deleted that as well just to be safe as I know sometimes that is possible.
What do you think?
appeared to affect the player.exe file flagging as a PHW-Banker Trojan, I've had this game for a long time and it never flagged anything before in previous scans.
however around March 3rd, players who'd bought the game from steam, humble bundle and gog all started reporting recieving different hits from antivirus, one Trojan, the other an info stealer file, no one has both, but it did seem to depend on their antivirus.
Some people have said flat out its a false positive created by the player.exe file because it was the multiplayer file from way back when and something to do with that.
I'm inclined to believe it's a false positive because I immediately quarantined the file, deleted the game completely, ran a full system scan and nothing, I then proceeded to run a thorough no holds barred full system scan in safe mode and malware byte scan and nothing at all came up.
However what irks me about when the virus scanner prompted the alert was when my wife visited the wal mart website to do online shopping, could it have laid dormant in my Mozilla? I have deleted that as well just to be safe as I know sometimes that is possible.
What do you think?