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Help Support Topics Archive / Re: Virus reported in the 2007 snapshot torrent
« on: November 03, 2011, 23:33:48 »
It depends on the stupidity of your AV and your AV's Heuristic scan level - the higher it is, the more useless info it gives to You - but it may be useful for sb else.
Those specific chiptunes probably were used in some viral tool.
For example, if you download yourself a trojan builder, even the included readme.txt file is improperly reported as virus. It is actually wiser to report it as a part of tool set, but AV companies are lazy..
Or, if a chiptune was used in a patcher or a keygen program..
There are some rare occasions, where a virus disguises it to be something else.
And there are also very special and rare Windows exploits... so...
Partially true.
A torrent connection can be hijacked and malicious code can be injected. I've seen that a lot.
Btw, some files, I didn't care to write down their names, but some zips in modarchive's torrents are indeed broken. And there were about 4500+ duplicates and...
Somebody should make a new snapshot and erase all of the previous torrents. I'm tired of downloading all top tunes with score 10 to 7 one by effing one and from time to time read about that I'm a "Webspider" or a "Download Hammer".. wooo.. I'm above human! I have spider and hammer skills! And I don't even have fiber optics! 0.o >.<
What's the point of making such an easy download list, if your server is weak to handle even 2 pages of download. Why not add timers, code verification or smthn like that?
Hmm, one more thing, that torrent link on Download Hammer page is obsolete...
Those specific chiptunes probably were used in some viral tool.
For example, if you download yourself a trojan builder, even the included readme.txt file is improperly reported as virus. It is actually wiser to report it as a part of tool set, but AV companies are lazy..
Or, if a chiptune was used in a patcher or a keygen program..
There are some rare occasions, where a virus disguises it to be something else.
And there are also very special and rare Windows exploits... so...
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A virus needs to be executed.
Partially true.
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A torrent can't be recreated once it's spread around.
A torrent connection can be hijacked and malicious code can be injected. I've seen that a lot.
Btw, some files, I didn't care to write down their names, but some zips in modarchive's torrents are indeed broken. And there were about 4500+ duplicates and...
Somebody should make a new snapshot and erase all of the previous torrents. I'm tired of downloading all top tunes with score 10 to 7 one by effing one and from time to time read about that I'm a "Webspider" or a "Download Hammer".. wooo.. I'm above human! I have spider and hammer skills! And I don't even have fiber optics! 0.o >.<
What's the point of making such an easy download list, if your server is weak to handle even 2 pages of download. Why not add timers, code verification or smthn like that?
Hmm, one more thing, that torrent link on Download Hammer page is obsolete...