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[ArantorParticipant]

Hi, I discovered this language today and it looked like what I’ve been looking for

Unfortunately, working with 1.1.08 has proven complicated. BitDefender Internet Security 2018 declares that the Monkey2 (Windows).exe file is a virus, specifically Gen:Variant.Razy.221535 and immediately quarantines it.

I’m assuming it’s a false positive but without some kind of confirmation I don’t really want to tell BD to ignore the entire folder in general (bearing in mind I had to do that just to get it to install)

Thoughts?

[Mark SiblyKeymaster]

I have never had any reports of a ‘true’ positive so I’m 99.999% sure you’re OK.

[ArantorParticipant]

Thanks, that’s what I figured, but normally BitDefender is pretty good at finding actual threats, this is I think the first time I’ve had a real false positive from it.

[DruggedBunnyParticipant]

It seems not to be an isolated case: http://monkeycoder.co.nz/forums/topic/prebuild-exe-file-missing/

I wonder if it might be worth running the itch.io releases through something like VirusTotal so as to give a wider view of virus test results for peace of mind. (You’d link to the results page, like I’ve done below.)

You can see some VirusTotal output results linked from here (some simple GTA V mods I wrote):

http://hi-toro.com/gtbunnymods/

(These mods will be no use on current GTA V versions, by the way, though source is included for anyone interested!)

Usually, you’ll get 1 or 2 false positives for almost any file, but when only 2 of 55 virus test results give “gen*” (generic) results, it’s pretty easy to see that a file’s safe.

I’ve only ever uploaded one file at a time (zip in this case), so haven’t ever used the API for uploading thousands of files like you’d probably have to do for Monkey2 (though possibly it updates the hashes for all executables in an archive?) — might be worth a look anyway.

I imagine it would be slow as f’ though!

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