malware

Tantoro - Heavens Tear
Tantoro - Heavens Tear Posts: 6 Arc User
edited November 2012 in Support Desk
my internet security detected malware from the patcher.exe should i be worried and take extra steps?
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  • Melora - Lost City
    Melora - Lost City Posts: 69 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    Uninstall whatever garbage one you have and install Avast or MSE.
  • Bubbles - Morai
    Bubbles - Morai Posts: 1,143 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    Speaking of garbage av, which one are you using?
    I'd love to know which crappy av thinks patcher.exe is a virus.
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  • Tantoro - Heavens Tear
    Tantoro - Heavens Tear Posts: 6 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    webroot
  • Melora - Lost City
    Melora - Lost City Posts: 69 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    Tantoro - Heavens Tear wrote: »
    webroot


    That even sounds like a malware of it's own, definitely replace it with something better...
  • Paulrogers - Harshlands
    Paulrogers - Harshlands Posts: 653 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    I thought everyone just used norton cause they couldn't be bothered uninstalling the trial...
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  • Bubbles - Morai
    Bubbles - Morai Posts: 1,143 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    Just ditch it, and get avast or microsoft security essentials
    One of those + malwarebytes is all you need.
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  • Melora - Lost City
    Melora - Lost City Posts: 69 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    Paulrogers - Harshlands wrote: »
    I thought everyone just used norton cause they couldn't be bothered uninstalling the trial...

    Norton is the worst... it has a tendency to totally botch your Windows install when you uninstall it...
  • Geckofreak - Sanctuary
    Geckofreak - Sanctuary Posts: 2,280 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    for awhile my security, trend micro, detected pwi's forums as dangerous, but that was only due to the botting on forums.

    this game is clean, as long as you operate through this website alone. people who have tried to find ways to cheat in this game with external website content get messed up
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  • Paulrogers - Harshlands
    Paulrogers - Harshlands Posts: 653 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    Melora - Lost City wrote: »
    Norton is the worst... it has a tendency to totally botch your Windows install when you uninstall it...

    Kinda why I didn't lol last laptop I ran the norton uninstaller It stopped my fingerprint scanner from working, but it comes pre loaded on like every PC over here.
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  • Tantoro - Heavens Tear
    Tantoro - Heavens Tear Posts: 6 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    lol i will soon pwi has been my favorite game since 2007 best game by far
  • Bubbles - Morai
    Bubbles - Morai Posts: 1,143 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    Geckofreak - Sanctuary wrote: »
    for awhile my security, trend micro, detected pwi's forums as dangerous, but that was only due to the botting on forums.

    this game is clean, as long as you operate through this website alone. people who have tried to find ways to cheat in this game with external website content get messed up

    You are so terribly misinformed...

    Trend micro is also another crappy av. Avast or MSE. Now.
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  • Melora - Lost City
    Melora - Lost City Posts: 69 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    Paulrogers - Harshlands wrote: »
    Kinda why I didn't lol last laptop I ran the norton uninstaller It stopped my fingerprint scanner from working, but it comes pre loaded on like every PC over here.

    That's why it's just best to do a clean install of Windows as soon as you get it, get's rid of all crapware in one go and doesn't take that long to do...

    You can get the ISOs from Microsoft for free and only need key on machine itself
  • Paulrogers - Harshlands
    Paulrogers - Harshlands Posts: 653 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    Melora - Lost City wrote: »
    That's why it's just best to do a clean install of Windows as soon as you get it, get's rid of all crapware in one go and doesn't take that long to do...

    You can get the ISOs from Microsoft for free and only need key on machine itself

    I just opt to restore from a system image every 60 days to refresh the trial (that's me getting them back for being annoying) and really if left alone norton is a pretty decent anti virus anyway.
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    HE'S OVERALL KNOWLEDGE OF THE CLASS IS LEGIT.
  • Melora - Lost City
    Melora - Lost City Posts: 69 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    Paulrogers - Harshlands wrote: »
    I just opt to restore from a system image every 60 days to refresh the trial (that's me getting them back for being annoying) and really if left alone norton is a pretty decent anti virus anyway.

    Not really, it could explicitly tell Norton that it's a virus and it'd miss it...
    //Norton Source Code, Copyright 1913
while(true){
    bloat();
    makeSystemSlow();
    sleep(1800);
    sendVirusDetectedAlarm();
}
  • ovenusarmanio
    ovenusarmanio Posts: 6,695 Community Moderator
    edited November 2012
    Webroot is so expensive for the poor job it does. >< I got sweet talked into getting it with my dell machine at Best Buy. As soon as my license expired I ditched it. One version of it didn't even let me add exceptions. b:surrender

    Anyway, moving this to the tech support forum because this question has been answered there many times. And since you're having this issue you may need additional help since some people had to disable their av completely.

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  • Melora - Lost City
    Melora - Lost City Posts: 69 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    oVenusArmanio wrote: »
    since some people had to disable their av completely.


    You should never ever have to, or do, that...

    Provided you use one that isn't ****... such as Avast or MSE...

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