S.T.A.L.K.E.R. XR_3DA.exe file is a trojan?!?

TBE on 7/8/2008 at 23:19

I just recently installed S.T.A.L.K.E.R. again, and when I got done, AVG Antivirus says that the XR_3DA.exe file is a trojan horse downloader of some sort. I have a legal copy I bought brand new in the box. It didn't do this before, what could cause this to change? I put it on the list of files to exclude from the AVG sweep, but some people may end up not being able to play as their exe file gets put in quarantine.

Bjossi on 8/8/2008 at 00:23

Just a false positive. The best way is to exclude the file, it will require a reInstall if the exe gets eaten up by the AV program though. (unless the game is available in raw form on the DVD)

Rogue Keeper on 8/8/2008 at 07:11

Antiviruses can be pretty sensitive about any hint of "malicious code" these days. But better safe than sorry.

Duncan on 8/8/2008 at 12:09

Once upon a time, Thief did the same thing. It happens.

Absconditus on 20/8/2008 at 21:58

As the others say its just a false positive just disable your scanner during installation or set it to accept the stalker exe as non virused.

Axon1988 on 10/9/2008 at 22:37

Right I got the same error today on my girlfriends pc, she wanted to play stalker mp against me!
I'm a lucky guy, she's pretty and likes computer games.

Anyways I dont know how to tell avg to bypass it or whatever. So it was a no go.

Hope you get it right.

driver on 11/9/2008 at 01:30

Best solution: Ditch AVG and get NOD32.

Axon1988 on 11/9/2008 at 10:20

Wow nod... Hell, I sell Nod32 for the compny I work for.
It sucks!
Hundreds of clients complaining about it...
So my sales for Nod is very low... zero if I remember right.