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IDP.ARES.GENERIC virus detected in 6.11 update?


TCommTek

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Hi all.  I'm currently running LaunchBox 6.10.  When I launched it this morning I saw the popup for an update.  When the update starts installing, I got a notification from AVG that the IDP.ARES.GENERIC threat was detected.  I checked my other machine and have the same issue.  Is this an issue for anyone else?

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It is not official. Jason usually announces versions at the beta test thread and LaunchBox social accounts like twitter and facebook and I haven't seen any official post about the 6.11 update.

I have contacted him directly and linked this thread to him, but he is not currently online.

It just seems weird to me because they were at the Retropalooza convention this weekend so I thought there wont be any update those days.

Anyway there has been multiple user reports similar to this one in the past and it seems that the conclusion is that the antivirus is reporting a false positive.

I will wait for Jason's answer and let you know.

 

 

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On this last update (6.10 not 6.11) Avast actually did prompt with a window that said something like "Hang on, this file might be malicious..." but after a few seconds of scanning it said it was all clear. I can only assume there's something weird prompting a false positive for some AV software. This has been reported a few times previously on earlier updates, though it's the first time anything has presented itself for me.

If I had to throw something out there, I'd wager it had something to do with Controller Automation+AHK for controlling things outside of LB/BB. That's not exactly new though so I'm not sure why it would present an issue now.

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