castnet
Member
Posted this before and it disappeared?
Tried to install on win7 64 4 times and I always get: failed to launch program” and virus engine tells me removed:” GEN:Variant.Symmi.26620, or 23691″ anyone knows why? Hope this get trough and is not removed.
T/Y
Seems like this post is not going anywhere either, thus trying here for answers. T/Y again
update: checked post and again this post was removed?????????
ChrisS
Administrator
If you have a virus then it almost certainly didn't come from the giveaway. All files are scanned for viruses prior to release and the comments section for the OCR program isn't deluged with complaints about a potential virus.
So, it's either a false positive or you picked up a problem somewhere. I suggest you run a full system virus scan, download and run the latest Microsoft "Malicious Software Removal Tool", then download and run Malwarebytes, SuperAntiSpyware, and AdwCleaner. You can find the 3 programs at MajorGeeks or other similar sites.
castnet
Member
Thank you for your response, but not really relevant to my problem. I do not have a virus, as stated, the installation would not start. I got a message : "failed to launch program". Then I quickly got a message from my virus protection that" GEN:Variant.Symmi.26620, or 23691" had been found and removed. A consequent scan found no viruses in the computer. Same result in the four times I tried two with 26620 two with 23691. As far as not being deluged with this problem, I posted this 3 time and all were removed from the post, if all virus posts are removed not much chance of being deluged. My main purpose for the post was to see if I was getting a false positive, or to worn other of a possible problem. I might have gotten an answer in time if posts had not been removed, but did not get any suggestion in time for the giveaway. Again I thank you for you taking the time to respond.
Whiterabbit-uk
Games Guru
Hi castnet.
On the game side, no virus warning from a community member is ever removed. I always answer these, though sometime I will wait till later in the day once I've determined that it's a false positive because when virus warnings are posted by well meaning community members despite it having been shown to be a false positive, the downloads for that day are severely reduced. Basically just the mention of a virus scares many community members from downloading the program despite the giveawayofthedays exemplary record.
The game giveaway site has never had any games infected with malware since its inception back in December 2006 and the giveaway site had one instance earlier this year (Sound Frost) that has some vicious ad-ware that managed to get through the giveaways malware testing process.
They also used to run a freeware library that was linked to from the main site, which had a program uploaded way back in the second year of the project that was shown to have a virus. That was removed the same day. The freeware library was finally closed down early last year due to a lot of suspicious activity from some community members (posting links to sites with loads of ad-ware and other potential threats).
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