False positive: NOX game.exe (Gog.com)

[Fthree]

Hello Avast! forum,

My name is Sean, I recently purchased a game called NOX from a website called gog.com (gog being good old games) (http://www.gog.com/gamecard/nox Direct link for those who don't know what i'm going on about). This is a very well known and trusted site, I highly doubt they would have put on a virus on any of the games.

Down to my Issue, I run a win 7 x64 system, when I install the game I get the pop up "game.exe is a trojan horse" (or something of that extent). The same thing happens when launching the game, I am forced to turn off avast for a set period of time- which I'm never comfortable with. I have reported this as a false positive but nothing was done to fix the problem.

I have also added both the folder (i.e E:\games\gog\Nox\*) and several of the executables (i.e E:\games\gog\Nox\game.exe) as exclusions but it simply won't give up trying to report it as a virus.

If anything can be done to sort out this issue, it would be much appreciated.

[Pondus]

have you tested the .exe file(s) at www.virustotal.com  ?....if scanned before, click new scan

when done, post link to test result(s) here 

[Fthree]

https://www.virustotal.com/file/b77315104d95ce9ae34e809fd2570d956d0e2bda3bdbd7973e0dfc326020b886/analysis/

There you go, I assume this is what you wanted.

Thanks for the quick reply!

[Pondus]

I would say that is a False Positive yes   

First seen by VirusTotal
 2011-10-08 20:11:42 UTC ( 1 år, 2 måneder ago )


you can report FP here   http://www.avast.com/contact-form.php

you may add a link to this topic in case they want to reply here

[Fthree]

Once again, thanks for the quick reply! I'll add a link to this post. Hopefully it gets sorted out

Edit: it might be my fault, but when I try to send in the ticket I end up with a "413 request entity too large" error.

[GOGcom]

I have uploaded the executable onto our server. The ZIP is not password-protected - I hope that's not a problem.

http://files.gog.com/support/Game.zip

[Pondus]

Once again, thanks for the quick reply! I'll add a link to this post. Hopefully it gets sorted out

Edit: it might be my fault, but when I try to send in the ticket I end up with a "413 request entity too large" error.

I have uploaded the file to avast lab   

still detected
https://www.virustotal.com/file/82aa28a5112e9e5f7116e4bfc359bde7c59b3ae257e24be1693c696a7399da7d/analysis/1357314482/

[Fthree]

Thank you very much My fingers are crossed it won't be a false positive in the future!