Virus Warnings 14 Dec 2007 The Support Dept. has received a number of enquiries from concerned participants who note their security software is detecting the installation of a trojan virus in connection with of our latest Version Update 9.1. We wish to assure all participants that the traffic coming from rp.entropiauniverse.com is safe. A dialogue is currently ongoing with security software providers to update their files and recognize the Entropia application as completely safe. AVG have already completed this update. We expect other providers to update very soon. Thank you for your patience in this matter. http://www.entropiauniverse.com/en/rich/5377.html
The question here is what was in that update that makes virus scanners see it as a threat? Is there some sort of greyware in the latest install? Is this some sort of anti-cheat/anti fraud addition? I find it hard to believe that that is just a co-incidence that anti-virus software would somehow match one of it's virus signatures to the code unless it was performing some similar function? :twocents:
I had this often in the past in our company. If code looks similar to known code of some Virus most scanners will detect a virus. This function was entered in the code of the scanners mainly because of script kiddies, which changed only few bytes in a Virus to generate a new one. but normally they should be categorized as result of an heuristic search
