Hey, thanks for the comment, I was totally unaware of this. How likely does this mean I have a trojan on my PC? or is it possible its a false positive?
Either way I'll remove the download and try to figure it out in the morning, Thanks again for the heads up.
I'd say the chances for false positive are rather high. If you have a reputable antivirus like bitdefender, check your PC for viruses. If it wont find nothing, then this is a false positive. However keep in mind that I am scanning every UE5 game before playing and this is a second one so far (out of like 30 scanned) which got me a positive, which means you might have some minor crap on yours, just not malicious enough to be recognized by others (some antiviruses install their own spyware in files though so this might be that). Zillya is not a super reputable antivirus as well, it often flags potentially malicious stuff as trojan.
Hi, thanks for the comment again, you've been really helpful and I really appreciate it.
I've done a bunch of research and like you said it seems its a reasonably known issues that can happen with UE5 games. Either way I've done a full pc scan with both MalwareBytes and Bitdefender as well as individual scans for all the files uploaded to itch and nothing has been flagged at all.
Overall I'm confident that it was a false positive so will be re allowing the downloads now.
Thanks again for the taking the time to help, always better safe than sorry with these things, and thanks as well for the kind words on the game jam page too.
One detection from a not well-known AV brand on virustotal is tantamount to a false positive. This really isn’t anything to worry about imo. I sometimes scan my tiny programs which I wrote and know don’t do anything nefarious and I get several detections on those, so yeah. Nothing special here.
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Just a headsup dev, and players - the game files seem to be infected with trojan virus. Might be wise to double check with an antivirus before playing
Hey, thanks for the comment, I was totally unaware of this. How likely does this mean I have a trojan on my PC? or is it possible its a false positive?
Either way I'll remove the download and try to figure it out in the morning, Thanks again for the heads up.
I'd say the chances for false positive are rather high. If you have a reputable antivirus like bitdefender, check your PC for viruses. If it wont find nothing, then this is a false positive. However keep in mind that I am scanning every UE5 game before playing and this is a second one so far (out of like 30 scanned) which got me a positive, which means you might have some minor crap on yours, just not malicious enough to be recognized by others (some antiviruses install their own spyware in files though so this might be that). Zillya is not a super reputable antivirus as well, it often flags potentially malicious stuff as trojan.
Hi, thanks for the comment again, you've been really helpful and I really appreciate it.
I've done a bunch of research and like you said it seems its a reasonably known issues that can happen with UE5 games. Either way I've done a full pc scan with both MalwareBytes and Bitdefender as well as individual scans for all the files uploaded to itch and nothing has been flagged at all.
Overall I'm confident that it was a false positive so will be re allowing the downloads now.
Thanks again for the taking the time to help, always better safe than sorry with these things, and thanks as well for the kind words on the game jam page too.
One detection from a not well-known AV brand on virustotal is tantamount to a false positive. This really isn’t anything to worry about imo. I sometimes scan my tiny programs which I wrote and know don’t do anything nefarious and I get several detections on those, so yeah. Nothing special here.
Yea I came to the same conclusion myself. Thanks for commenting though its reassuring.