SH3.exe infected?

[Al Lowe]

Now I have a whole new problem. When I try to run SH3, the protection system pops up and tells me the sh3.exe file has been changed, it may be damaged or infected with a virus.

I've run my anti-virus program various times, no change. I've reinstalled it, no change.

Anyone have any ideas or suggestions?

[_Seth_]

It shouldn contain anything bad, unless you have obtained SHIII from other places than those recommended. Some virus programs hate .exe files, btw..
Have you tried to run SHIII?

[Al Lowe]

I have the DVD version. It's been running for over a year with no problems. Now, all at once, for no apparent reason, this happens. And I have the patch for it also.

[_Seth_]

Originally Posted by Al Lowe

I have the DVD version. It's been running for over a year with no problems. Now, all at once, for no apparent reason, this happens. And I have the patch for it also.

If you have used this from the same DVD for a year, there should be no problems with it. If you also have downloaded the 1.4 patch from ubisoft, there shouldn be a problem there either. And if you use GWX: It isnt infected, trust me. I think it might be that your virus program has a hickup...What antivirus-program are you using?

[Finback]

I agree with Seth. The chance that a virus would go for SH3.exe are slim to none. Hackers aim for bigger game. As a computer tech by trade, you've caught my interest and I'd also like to know what anti-virus you're using.

There is also the possibility that you're a victim of a simple corrupted file... Does SH3 if you shut off your anti-virus?

[Von Taticus]

Your Anti Virus software is trying to tell you something .....

You have a Virus ...

Virus' , are written to do all manner of things. Some of then sit resident in memory and then infects any .exe / .com file on the drive when it is loaded into memory. It spreads throughout for drive and then onwards. This is how some / lots virus' spread.

There is no such thing as a 100% safe antivirus software. To limit the risk, you must ensure that the virus detection tables are bang up todate and kept up todate by its auto updating feature. This still doesn't garrentee that your machine is safe. Some virus checker installations become "compramised", so they will let some resident stuff get through.

Corrupt files don't flag as virus'

What I suggest.

Unistall your anti virus, and reinstall it, This will catch most situations (although it depends how old and what make your AV software is), Secondly ,Go to you AV's website and download there boot scanning application for a better chance.

After you have cleared the virus, then you have to clean up the damage, SHIII seems to be one, but there will probably be others too. But don't fix SHIII and ignore the cause, because it'll come and bite you again.

Steve

good luck,

[Gizzmoe]

Good!

[DarkPa]

OK, Al Lowe, here is the solution exactly as Starforce support emailed it to me - it worked straight off for me with no problems:

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First of all you should learn the path to the game: right-click on the icon of the game, select Properties -> Shortcut -> Target. It should be like this, for example: "C:\Program Files\Company name\Product title\game.exe". Here "game.exe" is the name of executable file & "C:\Program files\Company name\Product title" is the folder with the game.
Second, you should unpack UpdateModule.exe from UpdateModule.ZIP to the folder with the game (Download UpdateModule.ZIP from here: http://help.starforce.ru/tmp/UpdateModule.zip).
Then press Start -> Run... and type manually "cmd" (here and below you should type the commands without quotation marks).
Type in, command by command:
"cd <folder with the game>" (in my example it will be "cd C:\Program Files\Company name\Product title")
"updatemodule <name of the game's executable> <any name of executable, other from the original>" (my example: "updatemodule game.exe game2.exe")
"copy <name of executable, other from the original> <name of the game's executable> /y" (my example: "copy game2.exe game.exe /y")
"del <name of executable, other from the original>" (my example: "del game2.exe")
"exit"
Try running the game now.

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I hope that solves it for you, I'm sorry I didn't have time to synthesize their turgid prose into something more digestible, however if you have problems with the procedure I will step you through what I did in plainer english.
Best of luck!

DarkPa

I have not had any problems after running the Star Farce stuff but.
As I was looking at some files like the DLLs and EXE (with notepad)
I remember seeing a scarey statement!
"DestroyDevice List"
Nice.

[gdogghenrikson]

I have had that problem before when I used Panda online active scan..

[Al Lowe]

I just wanted to say "THANKS" to everyone. It's working fine now.

Oh, and GWX is FAN "bleeping" TASTIC!!

Originally Posted by DarkPa

OK, Al Lowe, here is the solution exactly as Starforce support emailed it to me - it worked straight off for me with no problems:

----------------------------------------------------

First of all you should learn the path to the game: right-click on the icon of the game, select Properties -> Shortcut -> Target. It should be like this, for example: "C:\Program Files\Company name\Product title\game.exe". Here "game.exe" is the name of executable file & "C:\Program files\Company name\Product title" is the folder with the game.
Second, you should unpack UpdateModule.exe from UpdateModule.ZIP to the folder with the game (Download UpdateModule.ZIP from here: http://help.starforce.ru/tmp/UpdateModule.zip).
Then press Start -> Run... and type manually "cmd" (here and below you should type the commands without quotation marks).
Type in, command by command:
"cd <folder with the game>" (in my example it will be "cd C:\Program Files\Company name\Product title")
"updatemodule <name of the game's executable> <any name of executable, other from the original>" (my example: "updatemodule game.exe game2.exe")
"copy <name of executable, other from the original> <name of the game's executable> /y" (my example: "copy game2.exe game.exe /y")
"del <name of executable, other from the original>" (my example: "del game2.exe")
"exit"
Try running the game now.

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I hope that solves it for you, I'm sorry I didn't have time to synthesize their turgid prose into something more digestible, however if you have problems with the procedure I will step you through what I did in plainer english.
Best of luck!

DarkPa

I don't know how many people still remember batch files, but this looks like
one we should create!

[Al Lowe]

Originally Posted by privateer

I don't know how many people still remember batch files, but this looks like one we should create!

I used to work heavily with batch files back between 1992 and 1999, when I worked for Underwriters Labs. Back then, it was in DOS. Man, do I miss DOS.