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[0.14.9] Kaspersky thinks factorio.exe is Trojan!

Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2016 9:28 pm
by DRY411S
Possible memory leak?
factoriomalware.txt
(328 Bytes) Downloaded 89 times

Re: [0.14.9] Kaspersky thinks factorio.exe is Trojan!

Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2016 10:18 pm
by Loewchen
That is simply a false positive and needs to be fixed by the developers of the software that made that mistake.
NaB.

Re: [0.14.9] Kaspersky thinks factorio.exe is Trojan!

Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2016 1:48 pm
by kovarex
I wrote email to them, let's see If anything happens.

Re: [0.14.9] Kaspersky thinks factorio.exe is Trojan!

Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2016 9:43 am
by kovarex
Hello,
I got an answer today and they told me that it was false positive and that it was fixed.

Re: [0.14.9] Kaspersky thinks factorio.exe is Trojan!

Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2016 8:34 am
by Philip017
i had this same issue when i started playing back in v.13,

my solution was to add factorio as a trusted program and then i had no more problems,

imo it's a game in development, kaspersky sees the changes and thinks it's a virus but doesn't quite understand, that is why the user is allowed to take control of the anti-virus and simply instruct it to ignore the program activity and treat it as a trusted application.

Re: [0.14.9] Kaspersky thinks factorio.exe is Trojan!

Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2016 10:48 am
by DRY411S
Philip017 wrote:i had this same issue when i started playing back in v.13,

my solution was to add factorio as a trusted program and then i had no more problems,

imo it's a game in development, kaspersky sees the changes and thinks it's a virus but doesn't quite understand, that is why the user is allowed to take control of the anti-virus and simply instruct it to ignore the program activity and treat it as a trusted application.
Yes that's a very individual solution. The reason that I raised this was:

1) to confirm that the developers weren't accidentally distributing a virus
2) so that the developers could contact Kaspersky to make sure that Factorio version was whitelisted so that nobody else would get the message I did. :)

Re: [0.14.9] Kaspersky thinks factorio.exe is Trojan!

Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2016 12:04 pm
by Philip017
i contacted kaspersky myself and they informed me that every time the game updates kaspersky has to re-whitelist the program, and this caused issues with the rate at which the developers released their updates and the frequency at which i play the game on the latest experimental updates, to solve the immediate issue, white listing the game is MY best option.