SRL Archive - General

Guys .. I hesitated to even post to ask the question because I know how it can get when people talk about trojans and viruses, but when I woke up this morning I noticed that Kaspersky popped up a window saying my laptop was infected with the game thief trojan via SCAR.

Unfortunately, I had to leave like 10 minutes later so I didn't have a chance to do anything about it .. and I'm at work right now and don't know the exact version I am using.

I do know I downloaded it off of Freddy and I do know I've had it on my laptop for a long time - and never had this happen until today.

When I get home I will post more information .. which version I'm using; screenshots; etc.

But whilst here at work, I wanted to at least ask if anyone else has had this problem?? While I don't play Runescape anymore, I do conduct a lot of personal business on my laptop and I've had one Facebook account and my primary Hotmail account "hijacked" in the last few months.

Thanks everyone!! :) Like I said, I will get screenshots up tonight.

~ G

It's probably a false-positive, if you got it off Freddy's official site. Don't worry about it, I wouldn't think :)

Okay .. I decided to come home for lunch and figure this out.

The trojan is Trojan-GameThief.win32.lmir.pli .. Kaspersky picked it up around midnight from scar.exe.

I downloaded version 3.22 in December 2009.

Attached is the Kaspersky screeny.

Any thoughts?

Gill, if you got it off Freddy's site then its safe. The way SCAR works and runs may make anti-virus programs alert you about it. If its off Freddy's site then its 100% safe unless he gets hacked etc etc.

And welcome back.

Crazy though, eh?? Anywho, I did get it from Freddy's site and I'm not overly stressed about it, but figured I would pass it on. I've never had any false positives from SCAR so …. always good to be careful :)

xoxo

You mean false positives from Kaspersky?
See if it works in Simba, and see if that also gives you a virus problem.

No, I've never had any false positives from SCAR, i.e. it's never set off ANY anti-virus like it does for some people .. I've run a few in the 3 years I've been using SCAR :) it's never set off anything until now. I will try Simba :) ty!!

O jeepers .. I had NO idea you guys had put that out .. wow .. I'm downloading it now ;)

I heard that rs-hacking.com got hacked? Dunno though.

If you tried with either norton or mcafee they shouldn't show up as trojan, as e fortunately one of the member here got in touch with them and got it verified as a non virus.

Pretty specifically says Kapersky. :p

am just saying:P

Its because of how freddy packages his .exes. I wish I had more information to give you, but I remember someone else posting it.

I believe it was Wizzup, but I'm not sure.

I think its false positive, maleware bytes recognise scar as a trojan aswell.