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Astropilot / ValheimTooler

A fancy cheats tool for the Valheim game
MIT License
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Windows claims to detect a trojan #34

Closed tofferlicious closed 1 year ago

tofferlicious commented 1 year ago

I ran ValheimToolerLauncher.exe and updated to 1.9.1. Then installed it, launched Valheim and then launched the Tooler. Overlay is shown in Valheim, but Windows gave me a warning on the file ValheimTooler_1.9.0\ValheimToolerLauncher.exe and calls the threat "Trojan:Win32/Bearfoos.A!ml"

It is under quarantaine now. Anyone else experiencing this?

Astropilot commented 1 year ago

Hi @tofferlicious ,

Yes my launcher is detected as a virus by most of AntiVirus, see this report: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/b552f8cea2acbb9cb4496742c5f4d88cfd3c84ff106db3ac38b1f4324bfd2110/detection The reason is legitimate, since one of the purposes of my launcher is to force the game to execute code that comes from an unofficial external source. From a technical point of view, this technique is called DLL Injection. As this technique can also be used for malicious purposes, antivirus software automatically detects it and lists my software as malicious. Unfortunately, there's not much I can do about it. The best to do is define an exception on my tool in the antivirus.

Kind regards, Astropilot

tofferlicious commented 1 year ago

Hi @Astropilot, thank you very much for the fast answer and in general for this great tool! Will close the ticket, thanks again!