Re: Survive the Wild Windows Security Threat
Re: Survive the Wild Windows Security Threat To be fair to post four, adding exclusions to any AV tool is very dangerous. Your essentially telling an AV tool that it should never scan that folder. So yes, uninstalling it is more secure than excluding it because your not opening up any holes for malicious software to sneak through. So post four was perfectly right -- irrespective of whether the game is "safe" or not. Adding anything to an exclusions list in an AV tool is playing with fire --and you'll eventually get burned because viruses and malware can put themselves in the oddest of places. (Furthermore, AV tools like Malwarebytes, which have built-in web protection, no longer allow you to visit sites like samtupy.com because it has a supposed Trojan. If you've got an AV that can hook system calls, like networking, and check domains before allowing connections -- and such a thing is very possible (especially with built-in AVs) -- you wouldn't be able to play the game anyway.) STW may be perfectly harmless to us, but clearly the security experts think it is, or the way BGT compiles programs is, otherwise they would've allowed BGT games in particular (there has to be some kind of pattern to identify a BGT game...).Was the idea stupid for those who want to play? Yes. Was it wrong? Absolutely not. Security is a two part job with online products; its not just about whether the game has been hacked or whether the server has been. Local security must also be accounted for. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/512915/#p512915 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Survive the Wild Windows Security Threat
Re: Survive the Wild Windows Security Threat To be fair to post four, adding exclusions to any AV tool is very dangerous. Your essentially telling an AV tool that it should never scan that folder. So yes, uninstalling it is more secure than excluding it because your not opening up any holes for malicious software to sneak through. So post four was perfectly right -- irrespective of whether the game is "safe" or not. Adding anything to an exclusions list in an AV tool is playing with fire --and you'll eventually get burned because viruses and malware can put themselves in the oddest of places. (Furthermore, AV tools like Malwarebytes, which have built-in web protection, no longer allow you to visit sites like samtupy.com because it has a supposed Trojan. If you've got an AV that can hook system calls, like networking, and check domains before allowing connections -- and such a thing is very possible (especially with built-in AVs) -- you wouldn't be able to play the game anyway.) STW may be perfectly harmless to us, but clearly the security experts think it is, or the way BGT compiles programs is, otherwise they would've allowed BGT games in particular (there has to be some kind of pattern to identify a BGT game...). URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/512915/#p512915 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Survive the Wild Windows Security Threat
Re: Survive the Wild Windows Security Threat To be fair to post four, adding exclusions to any AV tool is very dangerous. Your essentially telling an AV tool that it should never scan that folder. So yes, uninstalling it is more secure than excluding it because your not opening up any holes for malicious software to sneak through. So post four was perfectly right -- irrespective of whether the game is "safe" or not. Adding anything to an exclusions list in an AV tool is playing with fire --and you'll eventually get burned because viruses and malware can put themselves in the oddest of places. (Furthermore, AV tools like Malwarebytes, which have built-in web protection, no longer allow you to visit sites like samtupy.com because it has a supposed Trojan. If you've got an AV that can hook system calls, like networking, and check domains before allowing connections -- and such a thing is very possible (especially with built-in AVs) -- you wouldn't be able to play the game anyway.) STW may be perfectly harmless to us, but clearly the security experts think it is, or the way BGT compiles programs is, otherwise they would've allowed BGT games in particular (there has to be some kind of pattern to idetify a BGT game...). URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/512915/#p512915 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Survive the Wild Windows Security Threat
2020-03-27
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AudioGames . net Forum — General Game Discussion : matthew2004 via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Survive the Wild Windows Security Threat @post8, I agree! URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/512839/#p512839 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Survive the Wild Windows Security Threat
2020-03-27
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AudioGames . net Forum — General Game Discussion : haily_merry via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Survive the Wild Windows Security Threat @4, you do realize exactly what you're saying, right? STW comes from a reputable and well trusted developer in our community. It's been played by people for almost 5 hole years without any serious accusations of hacking being made. By now you must also know that BGT games being flagged by anti viruses as unsafe is a common issue, and this extends to other programming languages besides BGT as well, such as auto it and sometimes even python when compiled in certain ways. I'd suggest thinking a little more about what you're saying before you say it in future. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/512817/#p512817 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Survive the Wild Windows Security Threat
2020-03-27
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AudioGames . net Forum — General Game Discussion : matthew2004 via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Survive the Wild Windows Security Threat @1, you can turn off the windows defender realtime protection temporarely. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/512801/#p512801 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Survive the Wild Windows Security Threat
2020-03-27
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AudioGames . net Forum — General Game Discussion : black_mana via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Survive the Wild Windows Security Threat bgt files have bin always a threat for security programs, even malware bightsat post 4 you deserve a cookie, lol URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/512787/#p512787 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Survive the Wild Windows Security Threat
2020-03-27
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AudioGames . net Forum — General Game Discussion : black_mana via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Survive the Wild Windows Security Threat bgt files have bin always a threat for security programs, even malware bights URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/512787/#p512787 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Survive the Wild Windows Security Threat
Re: Survive the Wild Windows Security Threat lol #4 URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/512749/#p512749 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Survive the Wild Windows Security Threat
Re: Survive the Wild Windows Security Threat Well, you can add an exclusion in windows defender, the more secure method would be to uninstall it though.Greetings Moritz. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/512597/#p512597 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Survive the Wild Windows Security Threat
2020-03-26
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AudioGames . net Forum — General Game Discussion : Veljko via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Survive the Wild Windows Security Threat Windows Defender and most anti virus programs consider everything made in bgt a virus. Just add an exclusion for the folder you installed survive the wild in and you should be good to go. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/512596/#p512596 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Survive the Wild Windows Security Threat
2020-03-26
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AudioGames . net Forum — General Game Discussion : Meatbag via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Survive the Wild Windows Security Threat exclude the stw folder from it URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/512593/#p512593 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
