Virus in Cannon Fodder?

[hultsfred]

So I just tried to download Cannon Fodder from here, and as it finished downloading my virus scanner informed me that it had a virus:

http://files.abandonia.com/ramdisk/09f87ff34fcf6f74e9efd56658f978b31f931377229157ca73 419483508/Cannon%20Fodder.zip\CANNON.EXE

And that it was a virus/worm named PS/MPC-gen3. Is that meant to be there?

[verek_22]

Not this again. Okay, I'm gonna post some quotes:

I am using F-secure (Anti-Virus for Workstations 7.00 build 220) and according to it Cannon Fodder is clean, it might be a false positive. However, leave it untill you are completely sure. You could try some different AV scanners to find out if it might be a false alarm, for example you could test it on kaspersky's online scanner: http://www.kaspersky.com/scanforvirus

This is actually mentioned in the cannon fodder thread (http://www.abandonia.com/vbullet/showthread.php?t=107&page=6), so you might want ot read that too, not really any clear answers though, but it seems it's only Avast! that complains of it.

- Arand

That's ok, it seems that some EXE's of older games occasionally become wrongly reported by single antivirus programs as viruses. I have the same thing happening all the time with Avira's Antivir and Dungeon Keeper Gold - the world editor for creating own levels is reported as being some WIN95/INACTIVE virus or something, and of course it isn't.
Just ignore the warning, there's definitely no virus in any game you get from Abandonia.

All games on Abandonia are virus-free.
The same thing happened to me with an old antivirus called "Pc Cillin" when I was playing Metal Slug.

What AV scanner did you use? Was it Avast?

[hultsfred]

It was Avast as it happens. Thanks for clearing that up for me. I'd seen a few posts about abandonia being virus-free and I trusted the claim, but I thought maybe better to be safe than sorry. Nostalgia with Cannon Fodder here I come. :bleh: