dsetup.dll is setting off malware alert

[Ambrotos]

Originally Posted by Pringles [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

So confirming there is no way it can capture my banking passwords etc? I've honestly started thinking about building a box that literally only runs P99 in it so I dont have to worry about what this DLL is doing (ie: wont do my online banking, bills etc on it)

Unless the countless times we talked about it has changed, no one can gain access of any personal information or anything. It only has to do with eq.

GMs/Guides can't even read tells/groupchat because Rogean want's to keep the privacy of the players. So I doubt he would go so far where he can be arrested for stealing numbers to bank accounts when he limits the staff to not reading people cyber tells.

[Korben]

Originally Posted by Ambrotos [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

GMs/Guides can't even read tells/groupchat because Rogean want's to keep the privacy of the players. So I doubt he would go so far where he can be arrested for stealing numbers to bank accounts when he limits the staff to not reading people cyber tells.

That's exactly what he would want us to think.

/tinfoilhat

[phacemeltar]

Originally Posted by Pringles [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

So confirming there is no way it can capture my banking passwords etc? I've honestly started thinking about building a box that literally only runs P99 in it so I dont have to worry about what this DLL is doing (ie: wont do my online banking, bills etc on it)

ive been thinking of running a virtual machine with only p99 in it. would probably run way better, and could isolate it from my system.

[Artaenc]

Originally Posted by phacemeltar [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

ive been thinking of running a virtual machine with only p99 in it. would probably run way better, and could isolate it from my system.

I run it on a virtual machine sometimes at work, video is slow. Let me know if you find a way to speed it up plz. I'm using VMware Workstation 9.x with a dedicated NIC for that VM.

[sabinrf24]

Originally Posted by Ambrotos [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Not sure if you'll get an answer. Rogean had made a post in the past in response you can look up. I will say from what I know it doesn't do that at all. If it does other shady things I wouldn't have rl friends playing on the server, along with myself.

I expected worse, the functionality in the .dll seems reasonable honestly. I'm usually pretty privacy conscious, but after taking a look at it, I'm not concerned.

I know my opinion doesn't mean much, but I'm not involved in the development of the product, and I am not concerned by what it's doing...so I guess that's something?

[lvpa]

Well, AVG blocked it again; now EQ won't start.

Originally Posted by sabinrf24 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I expected worse, the functionality in the .dll seems reasonable honestly. I'm usually pretty privacy conscious, but after taking a look at it, I'm not concerned.

Can you give a rundown of exactly what it does? Or anyone?

I'm trying to figure out how to unblock it. In the meantime, this is not something I'm super happy about. Obviously it's a free server so I can't complain very much, but it is something I've gotten attached to, and it's not something the real EQ ever felt the need to do (or any other game I've played since I've had this computer. So, 2011.).

Edit: One of the processes blocked was in Windows/System32? No. I won't be unblocking that. That's not cool.

The other is eqgame.exe. I'll unblock that one and see what happens.

Edit2: Nope. I'm going to see if I can edit the DLL itself. If I can, and it works, then this whole thing is pretty silly because that's the first thing any malicious hacker would do.

The sytem monitoring is bad enough, but no one's making changes to my Windows system folder. One typo and I've let some amateur coder on the internet turn my computer into a brick.

[sabinrf24]

The AV is triggering on the obfuscation, not on the functionality of the .dll btw.

All I did was add the eq directory to my exceptions list under Tools --> Advanced settings --> Resident Shield --> Directory Excludes in AVG and all was good.

[Man0warr]

Avast! and Bitdefender don't flag it, and those are two of the better free antivirus solutions out there.

[phacemeltar]

gosh darn i hate cheaters

[Huck]

So if I have business version of AVG and it flags the .dll file - does some tech nerd at my company get an alert of this "virus" in my laptop or am I still okay to play on a work machine? LOL!