Hello Everyone! New guy here.

[anonist]

Hey everyone, I've been a lover of the GS mod series for a while now (I think back when it was still only 5 beta?) However, I recently decided to start playing LoM:SE again, so I checked back up. It looks like the progress is fantastic, amazing work guys!

I am happy to say that LoM:SE is one of my favorite games of all time; there is just something about it that is so unique, so charming, and so awesome to play. As a big time role-player, many of the concepts from LoM:SE have become staples of how I think of fantasy ideas such as magic, elements, and conflicts between opposites (Yes, I'm a nerd ). To know that there are so many other lovers of the game, and even a dedicated group who would see to it that it only gets better... well, that is just amazing.

Unfortunately, I do also have a rather severe question to ask. I rather paranoid when it comes to the internet; thus, when anything I have even remotely suggests I might come across malware, I refuse to deal with the subject in question until I can get a solid answer otherwise. I was just trying to download the PIC5R3.mpq; however, when I began downloading, my McAfee Site Advisor warned me of potential malware. Given that this has not been a problem in past downloads, and my equal distrust of big companies' quality, I am torn between considering it rubbish, yet also still want to be cautious. So I am asking of anyone who has downloaded it, is there anything that could be picked up as spyware, adware, etc. by anti-malware programs?

Sorry again for making my first post be something other than a well deserved praise for you guys. I just really love this mod, and I don't want to be kept from playing it because my site advisor is being silly.

[thomas420]

No malware. It is safe. I downloaded it a while back and have had no problems.

[anonist]

Alright, thanks!

Now, if I could just get an idea of what happened. I have read in some areas that very recently Site Advisor has been acting very strangely with Cnet, considering just about every download unsafe for some people. I wonder if that might be happening with Megaupload (wouldn't surprise me, I only go there when I know the link should be safe in the first place.)

I'm probably going to download it soon then; if anyone else has any info, it would be appreciated. Thanks again!

[Boaster]

I've noticed, in the past with other LOMSE things like the 301beta patch, is that virus scanners sometimes come up saying it's a virus. Clearly, it is not a virus.

No virus scanner is perfect. Some coding in patches and programs of years past can actually have some of the same binary that games and patches might use. Sometimes my virus scanner detects some windows files as viruses. I have learned that these are almost always FALSE positives.

A false positive is a file being flagged as a virus or a trojan, but it is not in fact a virus or a trojan.

Imagine a virus being coded as AABCAAB and a patch for a game being coded as AABCAAA. It might be enough of a similarity for a virus scanner to detect it as a virus.

All my site content is safe, unless otherwise noted. If you see on the front page of the website that things were closed off due to a detection of a virus, then be worried.

[anonist]

Thanks! Don't worry, I know about false positives. I half-figured that it was one, especially considering, again, that I have had no such trouble with your mods in the past, and I somehow doubt you would just decide to throw everyone for a twist and throw something in there!

I'm about to download now (scan with malwarebytes and clam, to be sure, but I have no doubt they will turn it up clean.) Thanks again for all of your help!

Now I just need to find a way to get involved here. Too bad I am worthless at all except the most fundamental and basic uses of coding, programming, game design, etc (if even that.)