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Ysoft_Entertainment · Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 3:37 pm Post subject: Virus in a nightly???

OK guys, I downloaded the latest nightly(25/5/2007, native) and it seems that there is some kind of virus in it. I ran game.exe and my computer crashed, and started running a program called dl.exe, which is a form of a virus. So be careful out there. I had to reinstall XP because of it.

The virus itself blocks out the internet connection, and rewrites any exe program it finds.
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Blue Pixel · Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 3:39 pm Post subject:

if the virus blocks out the internet how are you posting this?
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Ysoft_Entertainment · Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 3:48 pm Post subject: Re: Virus in a nightly???

Umm...

Blue Pixel · Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 3:51 pm Post subject:

o sorry didnt read that part.
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Rinku · Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Posts: 690

This sounds exactly like the virus Harlock got from SoJ -- that virus too overwrote every single exe on the computer and required a re-installation of the operating system. This is getting dangerous.
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Kizul Emeraldfire · **Type: Cyber Dragoon** Joined: 26 Mar 2004 Posts: 229

D:

Man, I hope it's not possible to get this virus from downloading the revision via Subversion and building it myself. 'Cause that's what I do. >.>

Onlyoneinall · **Bug finder** Joined: 16 Jul 2005 Posts: 746

O_O Yikes

I almost began using that nightly, I'm glad I didn't. Thanks for the warning.
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Inferior Minion · Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 12:38 pm Post subject: Re: Virus in a nightly???

Fenrir-Lunaris · **WUT** Joined: 03 Feb 2003 Posts: 1747

Which basically means that the nightly, although ridden with bugs, does NOT have a virus in it. You probably picked up the virus from somewhere else. Coincidentally, I've never seen this virus, even after grabbing SoJ.

Ysoft_Entertainment · Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 1:01 pm Post subject:

Well, I guess it reacted when I played pliptamer with the latest nightly. Oh well, perhaps the virus was hiding in my folder and activated when I ran game.exe

The program opened when I opened game.exe was dl.exe in the background of game.exe.

Oh well, I will try downloading nightly again and play it.
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Rinku · Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Posts: 690

That's sorta how the SoJ one activated -- it waited until Harlock got near the end of the game, then BAM.
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Ysoft_Entertainment · Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 3:21 pm Post subject:

Alright, I just tested the latest and its virus free, so in the end it was my computer's fault.

Sorry if this scared you guys, but I just wanted everyone to be safe(and not have to reinstall OS, its a pain in the butt), and my crash really happened due to me running OHR, oh well.
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TMC · Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 7:27 pm Post subject:

The virus you described (dl.exe, losing internet connectivity) appears to be W32/Bagz-mm, which isn't a virus but an email worm. Hopefully you didn't lose anything (I assume reinstalling doesn't imply formatting)

And FL, the SoJ virus was only in a nightly copy Fyre hosted separately from the main download. (If I remember correctly that it actually was infected?)
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FyreWulff · Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 8:10 pm Post subject:

the first Jade virus was in the installer, and that might have been me - the virus attached to it wasn't ID'd until a few months after the game came out, so it's possible it made it by all my scanners.

the most recent Jade virus was infected on the nightly .exes hosted on CP, and they ended up in the nightly because the nightly script just copied the .exes to the .zip

Ysoft_Entertainment · Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 8:59 pm Post subject: