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Game Thief Trojan?
Guys .. I hesitated to even post to ask the question because I know how it can get when people talk about trojans and viruses, but when I woke up this morning I noticed that Kaspersky popped up a window saying my laptop was infected with the game thief trojan via SCAR.
Unfortunately, I had to leave like 10 minutes later so I didn't have a chance to do anything about it .. and I'm at work right now and don't know the exact version I am using.
I do know I downloaded it off of Freddy and I do know I've had it on my laptop for a long time - and never had this happen until today.
When I get home I will post more information .. which version I'm using; screenshots; etc.
But whilst here at work, I wanted to at least ask if anyone else has had this problem?? While I don't play Runescape anymore, I do conduct a lot of personal business on my laptop and I've had one Facebook account and my primary Hotmail account "hijacked" in the last few months.
Thanks everyone!! :) Like I said, I will get screenshots up tonight.
~ G
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It's probably a false-positive, if you got it off Freddy's official site. Don't worry about it, I wouldn't think :)
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Okay .. I decided to come home for lunch and figure this out.
The trojan is Trojan-GameThief.win32.lmir.pli .. Kaspersky picked it up around midnight from scar.exe.
I downloaded version 3.22 in December 2009.
Attached is the Kaspersky screeny.
Any thoughts?
http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/3575/scar3.jpg
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Gill, if you got it off Freddy's site then its safe. The way SCAR works and runs may make anti-virus programs alert you about it. If its off Freddy's site then its 100% safe unless he gets hacked etc etc.
And welcome back.
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Crazy though, eh?? Anywho, I did get it from Freddy's site and I'm not overly stressed about it, but figured I would pass it on. I've never had any false positives from SCAR so .... always good to be careful :)
xoxo
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You mean false positives from Kaspersky?
See if it works in Simba, and see if that also gives you a virus problem.
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No, I've never had any false positives from SCAR, i.e. it's never set off ANY anti-virus like it does for some people .. I've run a few in the 3 years I've been using SCAR :) it's never set off anything until now. I will try Simba :) ty!!
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O jeepers .. I had NO idea you guys had put that out .. wow .. I'm downloading it now ;)
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I heard that rs-hacking.com got hacked? Dunno though.
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If you tried with either norton or mcafee they shouldn't show up as trojan, as e fortunately one of the member here got in touch with them and got it verified as a non virus.
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Pretty specifically says Kapersky. :p
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Its because of how freddy packages his .exes. I wish I had more information to give you, but I remember someone else posting it.
I believe it was Wizzup, but I'm not sure.
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I think its false positive, maleware bytes recognise scar as a trojan aswell.