GSC12 .exe virus notifcation

Jake Adams · Jul 18, 2012

I start up my comp today and AVG say GSC exe has a Trojian.
It wants to put the file in the vault. WTF man
Anyone else get this today? It was working great yesterday

EDITED INFORMATION BY REIZA: We´re contacting the companies responsible for Norton, Avira, Avast, McAfee and AVG to get the files whitelisted ASAP.

These are false positive reports and neither the GSC installer, GSC.exe or GSC Dedicated.exe pose any kind of security issue to your system. However the fact that it is triggering false positives is an issue in itself, and that´s what we´re working on resolving.

We apologise in advance for any inconvenience this may cause.

Jari Vinnari · Jul 18, 2012

Rhys has AVG and had problems starting his game-> http://www.racedepartment.com/forum/threads/game-startup-problem.53714/#post-1200252

Ivo Simons · Jul 18, 2012

Had the same problem yesterday also suddenly with AVG.
Just allowed it and it was oke.

Jake Adams · Jul 18, 2012

I had to go into AVG and select the exe as an exemption. Works now. But why all of a sudden did this happen?

Paul Lock · Jul 18, 2012

Was there an AVG update perhaps?

Ivo Simons · Jul 18, 2012

Maybe someone reported it as Trojan so they probably added in their update.

Damian Henderson · Jul 18, 2012

It also happens on AVAST.

Patrick Giranthon · Jul 18, 2012

Yes, 3 poeple at SRE couldn't launch GSC because of the avast update.

Scott Webber · Jul 18, 2012

i know reiza studios have contacted various anti-virus companys about this, not sure what is gonna happen.

Rhys Gardiner · Jul 18, 2012

Right, so I wasn't the only one. And all on the same day too. How unusual...

Graham Laing · Jul 18, 2012

I had this with GFI''s Vipre Internet Security. It only cropped up on execution, and I simply told the program to restore it (from Quarantine), and ignore it.

I also reported the false positive to the Company. In this case it was reported as Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT, a common positive in virus checkers, and more often than not, a groundless positive

AlexReis · Jul 18, 2012

I got the same problem with AVAST. No solution yet. Put GSC.EXE on exception and did not work.

Anestis · Jul 18, 2012

I'm also using Avast free,today happened to me as well, but i put the Whole GSC folder into the exclusion list and it's working fine now.

Emerson Meyer · Jul 19, 2012

The same with Avira

Jan-Olov Johansson · Jul 19, 2012

Symantec Endpoint Protection also reacts on the exe files, both in 2011 and 2012 version.

Fergus O'Daly · Jul 19, 2012

Didn't you hear? GSC put spyware into the exe files so they can gain access to your computer and steal your porn.

Yeah, PCTools Spyware Doctor and AntiVirus detects it too. Later after I "allowed" the files it told me that the infection had spread, which seemed very strange. Anyway, they need to fix their exe files and re-release them, because every known Antivirus program on the market is detecting the exe's as being a Trojan virus, which is not good. Not good at all. If it's not a Trojan virus, then why is it being detected as such? I shouldn't have to go to some other forum post and read all about why this is happening, so please don't ask me to do so.

Graham Laing · Jul 19, 2012

Fergus O'Daly said:
Didn't you hear? GSC put spyware into the exe files so they can gain access to your computer and steal your porn.

..... and this thread just informs Alex from Reiza Studios, which virus checkers are responding with false positives to the 2012 gsc.exe.

Nobody thinks they have a virus .....

Paul Lock · Jul 19, 2012

Fergus O'Daly said:
Didn't you hear? GSC put spyware into the exe files so they can gain access to your computer and steal your porn.

Yeah, PCTools Spyware Doctor and AntiVirus detects it too. Later after I "allowed" the files it told me that the infection had spread, which seemed very strange. Anyway, they need to fix their exe files and re-release them, because every known Antivirus program on the market is detecting the exe's as being a Trojan virus, which is not good. Not good at all. If it's not a Trojan virus, then why is it being detected as such? I shouldn't have to go to some other forum post and read all about why this is happening, so please don't ask me to do so.

False positives in free AVs arent exactly uncommon, although I understand that some paid AVs are also doing this now.

Just for the record, my Eset Security Suite is not detecting anything bad with the .exe