Incidentally has anyone gotten the server working properly with Bitdefender Firewall?  I have added an exception for simserver.exe (all ports and all protocols) but it doesn't allow my devices to connect (though I can connect to is from the PC itself).  However when I turn off Bitdefender Firewall and enable the regular Windows 10 firewall, it works ok (and yes I added a similar exception to the Windows Firewall).

Regards,

Thanks for the feedback. Let me wait 24 hours before uploading this, since yesterday my original 3.1.0.1 version also passed without errors.

In the meantime, feel free to use this version, since it will match the AVSIM version.

I don't believe the upload process breaks anything, as I did a byte-wise comparison and the AVSIM version matched my .zip. So that's not a source of error.

Regards

Mark

I wanted to let everyone know that I heard back from Kaspersky, and after a few emails back and forth they determined it was indeed a false positive. There was never anything wrong on Marks end or with the software. 

However, as Mark fixed the issue before Kaspersky got too it, this all may be a moot point. Thanks for the quick response to your customers Mark! Excellent service as usual. 

Hi Mark

Great, you have managed it. Also Kaspersky (at least in the environment I am current running) doesn't complain anymore on the download drawn from your google drive.

Thank you

Andreas

Thanks for the feedback!

I've now uploaded that version (3.1.0.2) to AVSIM and once its available, I will update the links.

Hope that finalizes this topic :-)

Link has been updated!

Hi Mark.....think we still have a problem.

I am doing a flight and realized I didn't have simserver running so I went to start it....and noticed my exe was missing.  I went back to the zipfile and tried to extract it from there and sure enough, Bitdefender didn't let me.  I then uploaded the last file I donwloaded (which was ok at the time) to the online virus scan and again sure enough 7 scanners detected viruses/malware:

https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/564c9339f90279ae78e6e211eb34e0434e46669aeb5d5e7d5d05a3ed7b7de63d/analysis/1499308249/

 

I then used your link (http://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?DLID=200324) and redownloaded the zipfile and ....viruses detected.  I am thinking, could it be some sort of timed malware which is dormant which then 'wakes up' after x number of days or hours?  Can anyone else try and see if they are getting malware detection also?

The MOST easy and pretty safe way to solve that problems:

Setup proper exceptions in your AV suite for ALL folders of your sim, addons etc....

Deactivate your AV suite during your sim session, as long as you don't surf to suspicious websites during flyling you won't need it.

On 7/6/2017 at 4:35 AM, Hilkiah said:

Hi Mark.....think we still have a problem.

I am doing a flight and realized I didn't have simserver running so I went to start it....and noticed my exe was missing.  I went back to the zipfile and tried to extract it from there and sure enough, Bitdefender didn't let me.  I then uploaded the last file I donwloaded (which was ok at the time) to the online virus scan and again sure enough 7 scanners detected viruses/malware:

https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/564c9339f90279ae78e6e211eb34e0434e46669aeb5d5e7d5d05a3ed7b7de63d/analysis/1499308249/

 

I then used your link (http://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?DLID=200324) and redownloaded the zipfile and ....viruses detected.  I am thinking, could it be some sort of timed malware which is dormant which then 'wakes up' after x number of days or hours?  Can anyone else try and see if they are getting malware detection also?

Hi Hilkiah,

sorry for not responding until now, but I have contacted BitDefender in the meantime and asked them to do a more in-depth analysis of the application. If you run a new scan via VirusTotal, you should see that no major AV software is reporting anything suspicious, including Kaspersky and BitDefender. At least, that's the case as per today, see also:

https://virustotal.com/en/file/95fe6149536d26381ecda35900dd2c06c43693f5e774154ea773de0321458529/analysis/1499612242/

I hope this reassures everyone that there is indeed no virus/malware contained within SimServer.

PS a binary executable contained in a zip archive doesn't change. A virus is not something biological which changes over time. Malware either exists or it doesn't - but the compiled binary will not change over time. And AV software doesn't actually run the application (such as VirusTotal), it just scans for patterns within the binary file.

Best Regards

Mark

Could this be why whenever I right click or click on SimServer.exe my system goes to a crawl.  This also happens with the OverheadClient.exe too... note.. no other files exhibit this behaviour..

On 8/29/2017 at 8:27 PM, craig_read said:

Could this be why whenever I right click or click on SimServer.exe my system goes to a crawl.  This also happens with the OverheadClient.exe too... note.. no other files exhibit this behaviour..

Hi Craig,

I would be very surprised by this.

SimServer should not cause high CPU usage (you can check it with the Task Manager).

The OverheadClient does cause a CPU load, but since this is designed to run on a different PC, I think this is acceptable.

Regards

Mark

Running the application is fine, simply highlighting it in explorer causes this, not execution.

Craig,

are you using some antivirus software?

I use standard windows anti-virus, so windows defender.  Like I said simply selecting the file, for example if I want to look at the properties of the file takes an age.  I'm assuming the machine is doing some background checking and this is why it takes so long.

Try temporarily disabling defender and see if the problem goes away.