I use Spybot, AVG & Ad-Aware. It was the AVG program that flagged the file. It's not likely to have come from somewhere else. I run these programs every day. I hadn't run the patch yet (so how would it 'absorb' a trojan?) and, as you can see, the AVG flagged that specific file. I ran my anti-virus software again today and got no new hits. I just felt a duty to report the file as soon as the warning popped up, and yes, Goldflash's warning rang in my ears. That's as techno-savvy as I get, unfortunately. Now it's up to someone who knows their way around file security to tell me that this is guaranteed trojan-free, and plausibly explain how my machine got a false positive. If I turn out to be wrong about it, I apologize in advance for the alarm. Better safe than sorry, etc. etc. Too bad there isn't an "official" patch for this (and a way to insert the function into mods without altering any other scenarios). It would sure be handy. Where's the geek squad when you need them?Hey, Balthasar, what anti virus software are you running?
EDIT: Could it also be that the Trojan came from somewhere else and copied itself onto that file?
It has to do with antivirus heuristics. Heuristics are designed to detect previously unknown viruses, that is to say, viruses that are newly released into the wild for which antivirus vendors have no specific definition files to address the threat. Unfortunately, heuristics are not very successful in catching newly released threats - mainly due to consumer demand for an unobtrusive scanner. To minimize the risks of false positives, some vendors have cut back on the level of heuristics employed, or given users configurable options to lessen or increase heuristics as desired.
No you can not because it is a written over main executable file.
