False Positive for Viruses?

[Reddoman]

Hi,

I had shared my game (using the updater) for friends to play, but for some reason their Windows Defender had flagged it. This led me to using VirusTotal to double-check and, lo and behold, it ends up detecting a few viruses. It looks similar to another user that had used VirusTotal, so I'm assuming these are false positives. I still want to ask about this because I want to make sure.

 

So yeah, I'm wondering if it is common for anti-viruses to flag games made by Intersect.  Does anyone else have the same issue and are these false positives? If anyone else has the same problem, please feel free to share. It's a bit hard to get them to play when they do not trust it lol.

VirusTotal Results: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/15942dd181998d288217840b47b3c74f6a969ad4db82ae9dca35e750ed57d3f0/detection

Note: I also want to share some quick background info about my laptop. I had recently done a factory reset on my computer, so my laptop should be virus-free. I pulled a few game files from cloud storage from before the factory reset, but I don't think those were infected either.

[panda]

13 minutes ago, Reddoman said:

EDIT: Oh, I didn't read the entire post and skimmed over it. My question was answered, sorry and thanks lol.

@panda Thank you for the response! I figured it was the game launcher too.

I used VirusTotal for just the game and not the launcher this time, if that makes sense. Results seem a bit better. Do you think this is a false positive as well?

 

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/d30bd47c272dbebe49f22a6c64876107cd37feb77baff3b8dc1ea5bc62372b2b/detection

 

That was the one that only popped up on one of the three different ZIPs I tried, and yes I think it's a false positive.

 

I'mstarting to realize why people say to exempt Steam and steamapps folders from AVs, and not just for performance. 🤦🏻‍♀️

[panda]

Oof. No, this is not expected.

Note, it's specifically the game launcher, and I think it's because it downloads files and launches one of them (the client itself).

Your original link (9/61 hits): https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/15942dd181998d288217840b47b3c74f6a969ad4db82ae9dca35e750ed57d3f0/detection

Game Launcher 2.3 Github Release (15/61 hits): https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/bbd4ef2e58617dbb44c6fe105424f536c132045337fc4dc5829e13f58b9641b0/detection
Game Launcher freshly recompiled from source on Github (2/61 hits): https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/57adafae1b018e9dfcc655f08fd85d8f5b8071cb7453844e96d0fceddfed14c2/detection

Build 143 Full (1/64): https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/e3042939185c3cea2640969c7609f37f325adb9984f3b87e14f8f79a2d078bf1/detection
Build 143 Patch (0/62): https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/08094217f2e8b52f8d6d31d3e2fe37814e7b3f2f42d3c2fce696a9e0711e85ed/detection
Build 143 Upgrade (0/61): https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/afe74f68a843c24411d9fda55d337f8c41744fdbac0cf0e502da8e721a982add/detection

Note that the engine that detected a "virus" on 143 Full was BitDefenderTheta which did not find anything for Patch or Upgrade (which both have the same binaries as Full does).

These are definitely false positives though, unless one of the dependencies referenced in the Game Launcher is bugged and vulnerable to something and is being flagged as a virus (dependencies haven't been updated in a while).

[Reddoman]

EDIT: Oh, I didn't read the entire post and skimmed over it. My question was answered, sorry and thanks lol.

@panda Thank you for the response! I figured it was the game launcher too.

I used VirusTotal for just the game and not the launcher this time, if that makes sense. Results seem a bit better. Do you think this is a false positive as well?

 

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/d30bd47c272dbebe49f22a6c64876107cd37feb77baff3b8dc1ea5bc62372b2b/detection