Imnothere44 wrote:Not trying to accuse anyone of anything, and I feel like it may just be a file being read weirdly or something going wrong but how come when I download this my antivirus tells me there's a trojan in it?
It's an issue with some RPG Maker games - Here's a bit of info I found about it.
Here is some background info on why this happens and why it will always happen again:
Known viruses are mostly harmless, because they are known and filtered everywhere.
The biggest thread are unknown viruses - viruses that are so new that no one knows they are out there and infecting systems.
But how do you protect against unknown viruses? You scan for number sequences that are the same as command sequences used to execute code or infect files.
Unfortunately not every number sequence is actually command code of a virus - it is even possible to identify a picture as a virus if the pixel color numbers accidentally create the same number sequence as the bad command sequence.
That is what is creating all those false positives - and RMMV and RMMZ have even more problems here because they are using HTML technologies to load and save their data, and a heuristic scan cannot see if that is a local program working correctly or a website trying to infect the local files - HTML code is code after all.
So it's always a balance - making the heuristic scan more aggressive will cause it to find more false positives but also increase the chance to find new and unknown viruses.
It's the user who must decide how aggressive (s)he wants the scan - if the computer rarely goes to the internet a low scan might be enough, if you regularly visit the darker sides of the internet you should use a very strict heuristic scan.
The game is safe, don't worry.
