Hi, just me with another of my offbeat computer stories...
I recently have been playing a steam game called - Alien breed: Impact - it is a top down shooter (very cool game, by the way)
I had been playing for around 4 hours with no problems at all.
Then recently, my anti virus - Kaspersky 2019 free edition - detected that the game had a virus. It deleted the game immediately, not giving me an option, so I guess the program thought it was a pretty severe and clear virus.
It said it was "PDM:Trojan.Win32.Generic" to be precise.
Ok, so this Kaspersky has been outstanding as an anti-virus program for me, for the around a year or so that I have had it, and it is a top rated anti virus program, even the free edition. So I trusted it.
Then I downloaded the game from steam again, thinking maybe it was because I had recently signed up for Discord for the first time, and joined a particular Discord "room" or "server" and they made me go through what I thought was a shady process where I had to clink a link and then I don't know what the link was, but then they said that I was "verified" to join the server.
Anyway, it made me suspicious because as I said, the previous 4 hours I had played the game in previous days before I installed Discord, I never had gotten that warning before. So I thought that maybe the shady Discord server people gave me a virus in the verification process.
Long story shorter, I deleted Discord entirely. Don't really need it anyway. I also don't like how Discord was starting up every time my computer rebooted and trying to connect for an "update", it was annoying and shady behavior.
I then did a system restore to a prior time when I knew I had not installed the Discord program, just to be sure. The system restore worked flawlessly. And then I re-downloaded the game from steam, and then started it up (Alien Breed: Impact) and all seemed well, no warning while I was playing. But then, alas, it was not to be!
Around 10 minutes into my game session, I got the exact same warning from the Kaspersky anti-virus again! The exact same thing happened. It deleted the program entirely, and told me to reboot to make sure everything was cleared.
I couldn't believe it. Very frustrating. So then I wondered if maybe it wasn't Discord after all. I downloaded the game from steam (yet again) and then ran Malware Bytes, to see if it could find anything or maybe the same virus. Nope! It said my system was clean.
Now I started to suspect that this was a false positive. In fact, I'm almost certain of it. So, I put it on the exclusion list of Kaspersky, and that did the trick. It no longer interrupts my game and deletes the game when I'm playing.
Just wanted to see what others thought about all this, if they think I did the right thing, or if they think steam actually has a game with a virus in it! I doubt it, but I guess you never know.
I recently have been playing a steam game called - Alien breed: Impact - it is a top down shooter (very cool game, by the way)
I had been playing for around 4 hours with no problems at all.
Then recently, my anti virus - Kaspersky 2019 free edition - detected that the game had a virus. It deleted the game immediately, not giving me an option, so I guess the program thought it was a pretty severe and clear virus.
It said it was "PDM:Trojan.Win32.Generic" to be precise.
Ok, so this Kaspersky has been outstanding as an anti-virus program for me, for the around a year or so that I have had it, and it is a top rated anti virus program, even the free edition. So I trusted it.
Then I downloaded the game from steam again, thinking maybe it was because I had recently signed up for Discord for the first time, and joined a particular Discord "room" or "server" and they made me go through what I thought was a shady process where I had to clink a link and then I don't know what the link was, but then they said that I was "verified" to join the server.
Anyway, it made me suspicious because as I said, the previous 4 hours I had played the game in previous days before I installed Discord, I never had gotten that warning before. So I thought that maybe the shady Discord server people gave me a virus in the verification process.
Long story shorter, I deleted Discord entirely. Don't really need it anyway. I also don't like how Discord was starting up every time my computer rebooted and trying to connect for an "update", it was annoying and shady behavior.
I then did a system restore to a prior time when I knew I had not installed the Discord program, just to be sure. The system restore worked flawlessly. And then I re-downloaded the game from steam, and then started it up (Alien Breed: Impact) and all seemed well, no warning while I was playing. But then, alas, it was not to be!
Around 10 minutes into my game session, I got the exact same warning from the Kaspersky anti-virus again! The exact same thing happened. It deleted the program entirely, and told me to reboot to make sure everything was cleared.
I couldn't believe it. Very frustrating. So then I wondered if maybe it wasn't Discord after all. I downloaded the game from steam (yet again) and then ran Malware Bytes, to see if it could find anything or maybe the same virus. Nope! It said my system was clean.
Now I started to suspect that this was a false positive. In fact, I'm almost certain of it. So, I put it on the exclusion list of Kaspersky, and that did the trick. It no longer interrupts my game and deletes the game when I'm playing.
Just wanted to see what others thought about all this, if they think I did the right thing, or if they think steam actually has a game with a virus in it! I doubt it, but I guess you never know.