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Off Topic => Test/Spam Forum => Topic started by: Leviathan on February 16, 2005, 08:46:26 AM

Title: optrailmaps.exe
Post by: Leviathan on February 16, 2005, 08:46:26 AM

Opened one of my many Outpost folders and avast came up with this:

Win32: Trojan-gen. {VC}
optrailmaps.exe

Is this because it uses back door somthing or other to get into the outpost2.exe process ??

Im not to sure what the exe did any way.

Title: optrailmaps.exe
Post by: Eddy-B on February 16, 2005, 12:12:49 PM

don't know - i had the same warning, i suppose i thought someone made this as a backdoor thing, and never bothered to join our OPU community anymore.. lol  so i removed it without debugging it or anything.   It didn't work anyway.. the trails!

Title: optrailmaps.exe
Post by: BlackBox on February 16, 2005, 05:33:26 PM

It uses WriteProcessMemory() to get into the EXE.

Which is also used to inject trojans at times into running processes.

Yea, the person who made it hasn't been here for quite a while, and it's not really that useful (all it does is show the route a vehicle will take to its destination).

Title: optrailmaps.exe
Post by: OP2Patriot on April 06, 2005, 07:42:29 PM

Well, it'd sure be news to me if that file was a trojan.

Title: optrailmaps.exe
Post by: CK9 on April 06, 2005, 08:09:52 PM

I used it when WON was still up.  It was usefull in some multi games (and yes, I told everyone I was using it while in game) ad it helped me with waypoint setting...does anyone else even use the waypoints?

Title: optrailmaps.exe
Post by: Leviathan on April 06, 2005, 08:17:12 PM

Yea I use waypoints all the time.

Oh yea it would be cool to show the units path when u set waypoints.

Title: optrailmaps.exe
Post by: CK9 on April 06, 2005, 08:21:13 PM

it shows only the path to the one you are immediately going to

Title: optrailmaps.exe
Post by: Phantom on May 03, 2005, 06:54:59 PM

I think Avast! thinks everything is a virus. I know it kept detecting my roms as trojans. lol

Title: optrailmaps.exe
Post by: Mez on May 04, 2005, 09:58:08 AM

Thats prolly cos the roms appear to use/point to certain dll/s etc which could be containe din your windows directory (system 32) maybe
 

Title: optrailmaps.exe
Post by: Phantom on May 04, 2005, 11:09:50 AM

It's wierd though, PC-CILLIN, McAffe, and Norton wouldn't detect them as viruses. Only avast! did. I think it's something in it's detection libraries.

Title: optrailmaps.exe
Post by: BlackBox on May 04, 2005, 02:21:40 PM

The roms should be fine, if they're from a different platform. (They couldn't link to DLLs on your PC nor cause any harm since they aren't executable on an x86 based machine)

Avast! probably uses a heuristic system to find what it thinks is damaging code or a virus (that's how polymorphic viruses are detected). However code in some of the files triggers a sort of false alarm. (It's heuristic is probably faulty)