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Nyerguds / MobiusMapEditor

Enhanced version of the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert map editor based on the source code released by Electronic Arts.
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Panda detected as exploit #5

Closed tefanga closed 1 year ago

tefanga commented 1 year ago

My antivirus detected it as a virus(exploit), is a way of fixing it without desactivating antivirus? Thanks

Nyerguds commented 1 year ago

Antiviruses are paranoid as heck these days, and mark literally anything they don't know as "potentially dangerous". There is nothing I can do from my side to change that.

If you have the ability to send them files to evaluate if it is a false positive, please do so, but I'm really not going to go and send the files of every new release I make to every known antivirus peddler on the internet just to soothe their insane paranoia.

The most likely cause for this freaking out is probably that the program accesses the Windows Registry to find the Steam installation folder. It uses this as starting point for auto-detecting the C&C Remastered game install folder in Steam. The editor needs to know that folder to know where to read the game graphics from, and if it can't autodetect it it'll need to ask the user to manually point it to the folder when first launching the editor.

So not only does that seem pretty harmless to me, but removing that system will make the editor more annoying to use.