Uninstall McAfee

I just purchased the game and right at the launch It fails to open due to Lightning.exe being a "virus". Returning the game and getting my money back, not worth the hassle.

OMG It's what's called a False positive.

Virus Total
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4/73 security vendors and no sandboxes flagged this file as malicious
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4 of the ones that flag the game as a Virus come from nations that disagree with the existence of the developer and publisher of these games.

Webroot SMD
it's as reliable as brick that exists with Virus / Malware written on it, They really have no idea and flag things as Malware.


Network Analysis
DNS Requests

No relevant DNS requests were made.
Contacted Hosts

No relevant hosts were contacted.
HTTP Traffic

No relevant HTTP requests were made

So it's not talking to the outside world great virus for 2024 then.

Originally posted by F340BD - Tampering just Great.:

OMG It's what's called a False positive.

Virus Total
______
4/73 security vendors and no sandboxes flagged this file as malicious
______

4 of the ones that flag the game as a Virus come from nations that disagree with the existence of the developer and publisher of these games.

Webroot SMD
it's as reliable as brick that exists with Virus / Malware written on it, They really have no idea and flag things as Malware.


Network Analysis
DNS Requests

No relevant DNS requests were made.
Contacted Hosts

No relevant hosts were contacted.
HTTP Traffic

No relevant HTTP requests were made

So it's not talking to the outside world great virus for 2024 then.

I know, I just do not care about this game that much to mess with antivirus software that never let me down so far. And I see this as disrespect from devs... they should reapir game so it does not appear as false positive.

Originally posted by NightbladeGreyswandir:

Originally posted by F340BD - Tampering just Great.:

OMG It's what's called a False positive.

Virus Total
______
4/73 security vendors and no sandboxes flagged this file as malicious
______

4 of the ones that flag the game as a Virus come from nations that disagree with the existence of the developer and publisher of these games.

Webroot SMD
it's as reliable as brick that exists with Virus / Malware written on it, They really have no idea and flag things as Malware.


Network Analysis
DNS Requests

No relevant DNS requests were made.
Contacted Hosts

No relevant hosts were contacted.
HTTP Traffic

No relevant HTTP requests were made

So it's not talking to the outside world great virus for 2024 then.

I know, I just do not care about this game that much to mess with antivirus software that never let me down so far. And I see this as disrespect from devs... they should reapir game so it does not appear as false positive.

It will be a false positive because of the AV dev, Submit the game file to your AV company they will probably whitelist it.

Fun fact, the Virus is McAfee.

Originally posted by NightbladeGreyswandir:

Originally posted by F340BD - Tampering just Great.:

OMG It's what's called a False positive.

Virus Total
______
4/73 security vendors and no sandboxes flagged this file as malicious
______

4 of the ones that flag the game as a Virus come from nations that disagree with the existence of the developer and publisher of these games.

Webroot SMD
it's as reliable as brick that exists with Virus / Malware written on it, They really have no idea and flag things as Malware.


Network Analysis
DNS Requests

No relevant DNS requests were made.
Contacted Hosts

No relevant hosts were contacted.
HTTP Traffic

No relevant HTTP requests were made

So it's not talking to the outside world great virus for 2024 then.

I know, I just do not care about this game that much to mess with antivirus software that never let me down so far. And I see this as disrespect from devs... they should reapir game so it does not appear as false positive.

False positive is not the dev's fault. It's McAfee's fault. Also, McAfee is not very good, and unnecessary.

Also, FYI, McAfee has let you down any time you get a false positive - like now for instance.

"Returning the game and getting my money back, not worth the hassle."

I can imagine your computer has almost no software on it...

Originally posted by Troff:

"Returning the game and getting my money back, not worth the hassle."

I can imagine your computer has almost no software on it...

Ney, nothing... I am stupid 50 yo who never had anything form windows 3.11 till now, and I was not living in Serbia in 90s and early 2000s and I never had around 150.000 USD value of cracked softwear when Serbia was under sanctions... And i have ni idea what are torrents or viruses or computer viruses or anything... i just play solitare.
And I am just spoiled to request from devs to solve problem on legal game i want to use without having to manage my antivirus.

Originally posted by NightbladeGreyswandir:

Originally posted by Troff:

"Returning the game and getting my money back, not worth the hassle."

I can imagine your computer has almost no software on it...

Ney, nothing... I am stupid 50 yo who never had anything form windows 3.11 till now, and I was not living in Serbia in 90s and early 2000s and I never had around 150.000 USD value of cracked softwear when Serbia was under sanctions... And i have ni idea what are torrents or viruses or computer viruses or anything... i just play solitare.

Cool no problem (my comment was a joke, not meant to target or poke you directly). I am too 50+ year-old old school guy (but my first computer was a ZX80).

Anyway for your antivirus, due to FPs 'false positives' (where the software thinks it is a threat, but it isn't), you would need to get used to it. Finding out how to stop a FP is just like changing oil in your car - it's not convenient but you need to do it from time to time.

Mostly games are affected by FPs, and due to this game's popularity, if any FP turned out to be a real threat, we would have heard it by now (from people far more experienced than you or me).

Comments before yours were unpleasant so i overreacted.
I had my cup of fun with doing lot of that while i was playing hacked games, now if i pay for the game i would really appreciate plug and play experience. basic respect of devs to money i give to them.
And I do not have any previous experience on Steam with false positive games.

This game doesn't have any virus. And you may also be farming Clown points.

Everyone knows that Steam performs security checks before posting a game to the store. And Opus Magnum was posted long ago. (+5 years)

I wouldn't put it past him so don't be so harsh - who knows he might be using an older or OEM McAfee version, with security settings set to Very High or Maximum (thus throwing FP's all over the place).

But yeah I agree, as mentioned there are some really good (perhaps from a security-background) players on Steam who are actively able to sniff out malware and viruses in packages (mostly to do with DRM crap from EA and Origin etc) and the huge number of players this game has it should be evident from a simple forum search (keyword "Virus") that the few people who have encountered the lightning.exe issue, it was a nothing-burger.