December 13, 201114 yr Hi all,I went to purchase the Citation X v2 this evening, and AVG is flagging it as a virus...has anyone ran into this? From reading up on the reported virus "thermida" apparently this is possibly a type of piracy protection....but I don't care to run this until I get some confirmation....Thanks Cheers, Jonathan
December 13, 201114 yr Have a look here http://www.eaglesoftdg.com/faq.htm about half way down the page...Please note this is a common occurance and has been for years.
December 13, 201114 yr Author Hey thanks for the quick response.... off to purchase now! This message will self destruct in 3...2....1 Cheers, Jonathan
December 13, 201114 yr I have a similar issue with FSDT's KLAS with Norton Internet Security. It reports it as malicious, FSDT support also says it's a false positive, but I'm not sure about this one, because none of their other products has this issue. If it was a false positive from their copyright scheme, I would think their other products would exhibit this behavior as well, since they use the same scheme? Also FSDT doesn't host the file on their servers, they use MediaFire, which is what's making me so leery of it. Thanks Tom My Youtube Videos! http://www.youtube.com/user/tf51d
December 13, 201114 yr Tom, I grabbed FSDT's KLAS and installed about two hours ago without any sirens going off. Using Avira for AV. And FSDT uses a paid account at Mediafire, so unless someone knows the U/N and password to switch out the files I consider it OK.
December 13, 201114 yr Commercial Member It depends on the product and whether it uses the full possibilities of F1's systems. As an example, all of our products do exactly the same thing. (flagged as virii). They, of course, are not but... good luck convincing some people of that.... Please contact oisin at milviz dot com for forum registration information. Please provide proof of purchase if you want support. Also, include the username you wish to have.
December 13, 201114 yr Moderator Themida is a copy protection ... a very bad oneNo argument there, but the point is that this is a false positive! Themidia is not used at all... Fr. Bill AOPA Member: 07141481 AARP Member: 3209010556 Avsim Board of Directors | Avsim Forums Moderator
December 13, 201114 yr The Citation X...she's a beauty!I have to agree with you Barbarian, I purchased the Citation X recently and haven't flown much else since then. It's very in-depth, great FMS, and I get a pure sense of accomplishment when I land at the destination. Excellent job Eaglesoft.Chris Bremmer Chris Bremmer
December 14, 201114 yr Author I have to agree with you Barbarian, I purchased the Citation X recently and haven't flown much else since then. It's very in-depth, great FMS, and I get a pure sense of accomplishment when I land at the destination. Excellent job Eaglesoft.Chris BremmerI know...even though I had to work this morning, I was up until 2:30a ...I read the docs and then flew a flight from Naples, Italy to Athens, Greece LIRN --> LGAV.... extremely nice airplane. I got to thinking...you know I don't really care how MS Flight shapes up...I'm a happy camper with FSX. I just hope developers don't ditch it as a platform, I develop software for a living, and there is some awe inspiring software out there for FSX. It makes me want to get out of enterprise java web development and go back into desktop C++ doing software that isn't business related. Cheers, Jonathan
December 14, 201114 yr Commercial Member Call me if you do!!! Please contact oisin at milviz dot com for forum registration information. Please provide proof of purchase if you want support. Also, include the username you wish to have.
December 14, 201114 yr Commercial Member Just had one such report from one of our users, who was unfortunate to use Avast. None of the other users reported this.These days with many free anti virus products (AVG, Avira, Avast etc...) competing to lure customers to buy their pay ware products, there is increasing pressure on them to show that they are actually doing something on the machine.The result is a tendency for AV products to be trigger-happy and flag exes or dlls as viruses on a whim.In the past we had AVG do this frequently, until we told them to be careful.The funny thing is, with exactly the same C++ code, you compile it to make the exe, anti virus A doesn't flag it as suspicious, anti-virus B does.You then re-compile exactly the same code, and none of them complains.Compile a third time and one of them or anti-virus C, D or E will complain.It's called "heuristics" (better called speculation)Anyway to cut a long story short, unless you downloaded the file from non-official channel (and I am not suggesting you did), it’s very likely a “false positive”Will probably have to recompile and post another package later on, because people who are about to use the software first time might get the wrong impression. Gerald R https://www.multicrewxp.com
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