Spring RTS Engine

Just got SPRING the other day. Used it about a year ago for a few days then wiped my PC out and did maintenance and all that fun stuff. Forgot about it for a while, finally got it yesterday I believe. Fun game, but the information below is depressing

Using: COMODO Internet Security [free, antivirus, firewall, defense+]

It's a super great suite and works like a charm without interfering with my data/games/software.


While installing SPRING, I get a virus (win32 Trojan downloader, do not have details as I am at work posting this)


What's the deal? I have never gotten this. I am going to assume it's one of those "harmless" viruses? Or a "mistaken" one? Wrote it off as an exclusion and then uninstalled SPRING+deleted the file. I don't want anything like that in my machine if it contains a Trojan.

Any information is nice!

That antivirus really sucks if detects a nsis installer as a virus, anyway, get a good antivirus like avira antivir personal

the installer contains code to download support software, like lobby clients and the settings program. i'd say it's a false positive.

tizbac wrote:That antivirus really sucks if detects a nsis installer as a virus, anyway, get a good antivirus like avira antivir personal

But wouldn't that mean it's doing a great job, because it detects even the smallest hint of a virus?

I think I will stick with it. Avast hasn't done anything this one has. Nor AVG.

psychosocial08 wrote:But wouldn't that mean it's doing a great job, because it detects even the smallest hint of a virus?

If you think false positives are a good thing because they are positives....I guess you're all set.

Downloading isn't a hint of a virus, half your apps probably do that. It's nothing more than broken detection. It only sees a specific method of downloading that some viruses use. On the bright side, the .79 installer doesn't download anything with it.

And if something flags as a virus, use one of many internet virus scanners.

It isn't a trojan, your program is mistaken. The program merely downloads other content to supplement the initial installer. Reinstall as normal, ignore the complaints and have fun.

Thanks guys. I was almost positive it was a false positive. But didn't want to take that chance. As to reply to the

@Peet
"If you think false positives are a good thing because they are positives....I guess you're all set."


I do, in a way. That tells me the antivirus software I have chosen has noticed something the others haven't. And that something could pose a threat. I would rather know better, but still detect it, than not know about it and never find out. I have been using computers almost ever since they came out with the original Windows; and have done everything from start them up to build them to completely rewrite AI scripts to 3D to anything in the book. Viruses annoy me, and I have gotten one or two in my life that AVG and Avast have missed (During those years I have erased many a hard drive). Some of which disabled my PC, others just opened a popup once a month. So I take it as a blessing that the one I use now can tell me if there is even a possible threat of one.


P.S. - I'm not bragging, many people in this very forum post of mine can outdo me in any way. I was stating that I know what I'm doing, not just a n00b coming in here afraid of viruses. I prefer a clean PC without a game over an infected PC with a game.


Thanks again everyone!

Recentry I installed 0.79.0.2 game and could not figure out why tasclient could not launch the game (on Windows XP). Some good guy pointed me that I probably don't have a spring.exe inside the Spring directory . What actually happened was NOD32 restricting the creation of spring.exe in the file system so installer skipped this file silently every time I tried to extract and 7zip extractor showed me senseless error after showing "361% extracted" . Also any downloads of spring.exe failed for the same reason or had 0Kb length.
So beware if you have ESET NOD32 installed!

I recomend all of you linux. Is easy, most of them free. Have folders and windows like win and i cant remember what is an antivirus. More faster. Same programs , Transgaming CEDEGA and wine for playing win games .....
Respect o the threat of virus, i think you can view the source an judge by yourself if there is a trojan inside or not.