OHRRPGCE stable release (Etheldreme)

The OHRRPGCE has a lot of .exe files, and is only used by a relatively small number of users, so false positives on Virus scanners is going to be an on-going problem we have to deal with.

The best (and only?) way I know of to solve the problems is to report the false positives.

Each different antivirus company has their own procedures for false positive reporting.



Here is the process for reporting false positives to Malwarebytes:
https://support.malwarebytes.com/docs/DOC-1164
https://support.malwarebytes.com/community/consumer/pages/contact-us

This can probably only be done by someone who has Malwarebytes installed on their computer, and has a copy of game.exe or custom.exe that it is blocking.



AVG's instructions for false positive reporting are here: https://www.avg.com/submit-sample

I ran Etheldreme through VirusTotal. It doesn't include AVG anymore. No scanners had a problem with custom.exe. Baidu claimed game.exe had a trojan. Another scanner flagged wget.exe in the minimal zip as unsafe, and two more reported something in two of the other .exes in the full zip file... but I don't know which, because the VirusTotal interface is really terrible!

If your virus scanner reports a problem, please try to report a false positive, because often we can't do anything about it without having the virus scanner installed.

I guess signing the .exes might also help to avoid false positives, if the same certificate is used for lots of different harmless .exes. Some antivirus companies like Comodo even let you get a certificate whitelisted.

It might also help to have a link to the executable on each update on a non-wiki subfolder. everything file on fyrewulff.com used to get flagged, but a month after i actually made it a website and linked to jade's files on it, it stopped getting flagged.

My suspicion is that links to files on forums and wikis are ignored (as possibly being botnetted onto the wiki/forum) whilst top level direct links build it's web of trust when the webcrawlers see them. That's just a personal theory though. I've had to do the false positive stuff too. Annoying.

(Noone really knows how these scanners make their diagnostications)

i've spent some time working on anti-cheat stuff.. i just see everything as heuristics now. Help.

Now, it seems to run with the installer. But meanwhile i installed Ubuntu in order to avoid these anomalies with virus scanners.

Haha, that's the most complete solution to the problem :)
Do you mean it used to block the installer, but no longer does? That's good news.

Yes, it would be a complete solution. But i have a problem again. I haven't found i386 version from ethelderme, just the amd64 version, which doesn't run on my laptop.

Try the .tar.bz2file instead of the .deb file

You can also see https://rpg.hamsterrepublic.com/ohrrpgce/Linux_library_requirements for how tough apt-get the library requirements

MalwareBytes seems to be giving false positives less, but still seems to go off if it scans a GAME.exe that had its name changed, and this still includes C. Kane.

It might need to have multiple copies reported as false positives, of different versions.

I would suggest at least submitting ckane.exe as a false positive. (That one is probably still an older stable version? I imagine The Wobbler has not already updated the Steam version to etheldreme)

I can't check the version right now but the build of C. Kane on Steam is likely a nightly build from mid-2016.

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It's okay now. I'm not quite familiar with the Ubuntu system, just installed in order to run the custom stable. Finally, the 32bit x86 version runs. Now, it works properly. Anyways, it's awasome. Both Ubuntu and OHR. I kept Win7 too, but i think Ubuntu is better. Thanks to OHR for setting up this Linux distribution!

I'm new aboard the Ubuntu train myself. It's a bit of a runaround doing a few things, but that's the price you pay for FREEDOM!

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