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I am writing to the people involved in the development of this module, hoping for a prompt response to my problem. 

 

After a while I install DCS from scratch, I download my modules, and when I go to run the simulator, Windows Defender tells me about an existing threat, why is this happening?.

For security reasons, I have uninstalled the module and used several tools to eradicate the threat, but it is still active... it is really a headache.

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Edited by lvl4f

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2 minutes ago, razo+r said:

Highly likely a false positive. 

Do you work at Razbam? How can you assure me that it is a false positive?.

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6 minutes ago, lvl4f said:

How can you assure me that it is a false positive?

 

We can't .. so if you trust your AV more than you trust ED & RB, then just refrain from using that Module and send the DLL to Microsoft to ask for confirmation that it is indeed a virus.

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14 minutes ago, lvl4f said:

Do you work at Razbam?

No

14 minutes ago, lvl4f said:

How can you assure me that it is a false positive?.

I cannot assure you anything, not even your Anti Virus is sure. It says it's potentially and not that it's confirmed.

Besides, you can count the amount of people who had gotten a likely false positive with one hand (or maybe two...). So again, the likelyhood of it being a false positive is very high.

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Did RB used VMProtect for their dll's?

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Do you work at Razbam? How can you assure me that it is a false positive?.
Numerous threads on this, it's an FP.
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Thanks to the excellent support from eagle dynamics, my problem was resolved, so you can mark this post as solved, thank you very much.

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I've just received what are probably false positive reports on AV8B_FM.dll and M2KC_FM.dll, from a full scan of my system.  

If they are false positives however, maybe someone at RAZBAM or ED ought to check why these reports are suddenly occurring, when there's not been a sniff of any issues for years?

Posted

Touch wood so far, all my RB bits are as they should be. Haven’t had anything pop up and have flown them recently.

Good luck with clearing it up.

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Well I've just updated DCS, to the latest version, and both aircraft seem to be working OK, despite me having real-time AV scanning activated, so maybe that's sorted it.  A full scan of my system takes and age, so if I can't figure out how to just point a scan at the DCS folder and as they are/were very likely to be false positives anyway, I'll probably not repeat the scan just yet.  🙂

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On 6/13/2024 at 3:24 PM, Greyman said:

I've just received what are probably false positive reports on AV8B_FM.dll and M2KC_FM.dll, from a full scan of my system.  

If they are false positives however, maybe someone at RAZBAM or ED ought to check why these reports are suddenly occurring, when there's not been a sniff of any issues for years?

Add to that the F-15E module also started triggering walware reports a couple days ago on its DLL (including on my machine). All this on Razbam modules only, and within a short span of time.
Either something on the shared code used by Razban modules suddenly started showing as suspect to antivirus software (maybe a similar threat was added to malicious code databases that looks like Razban's code), of something less neat is going on. 

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F-15 E latest update triggered Norton antivirus on my machine and it helpfully removed ARF.dll from the F-15 module with bothering to ask me.   Cited the threat as Trojan.Gen.MBT

Callsign "Auger". It could mean to predict the future or a tool for boring large holes.

 

I combine the two by predictably boring large holes in the ground with my plane.

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Windows Defender found Trojan:Win32/Wacatac.B!ml today when I updated to DCS 2.9.7.58923 using Steam in the following files:

  • \SteamLibrary\steamapps\downloading\223750\Mods\aircraft\AV8BNA\bin\AV8B_CPT.dll
  • \SteamLibrary\steamapps\downloading\223750\Mods\aircraft\M-2000C\bin\M2KC_CPT.dll

Given recent events I have elected to not install the M2000 or AV8B until this issue is resolved.

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Issue with false positive for AV-8B and M2000 CPT.dll files now resolved - install OK and working OK, no viruses detected.

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