BMS 4.34 u1 and u2 infected
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Hi.
I have tried numerous ways to download and install update one and i tried to download update 2 and 3 aswell. U1 and U2 are infected with win32 malware-gen. Every antivuris, firewall and core protection programs i have are screaming it in my face and they wont let me install. U3 however is fine according to my PC, but it wont help me right now.So what is this?
are they corrupt or what? and if not, what should i do? I tried to turn my ant virus of and create exceptions but no. I just wont work. So i have searched the internet for a solution but i cant seem to find any, i havent found any answers on the this forum either.I’m turning to you guys, i just want to enjoy this awesome game!
Best regards, David.
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Is this the exe or the Torrent files it is flagging as Malware?
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Both. I tried all the links. U3 is fine though.
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It lets me download but cancels both torrent and mediafire files at the last moment.
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Kapersky picks up nothing - I would expect your software is flagging them up as false positives.
If you are downloading via the torrents from this site then you should be pretty safe to tell whatever software you are using they can be trusted.
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Yeah. I dont think they are infected. It says win32.malware-gen when flagged. I dont really know how to work around it. I tried to false report it and to make it an exception but no. My anitvirus knows best. not in this case though.
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Avast didn’t like U3. I usually disable it while installing but forgot this time. called it a false positive and made the exception… all installed fine…
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Well i Will try again later and disable avast. But it seems pretty stubborn.
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AVG didn’t like U3. Put it in quarantine for malware
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I have run the installer through various Anti-Malware engine Tester. As a Dev myself had Problems with not digital signed installers in the past. AVG and AVAST are the most prominent to report a false positive in that case. So I.e if you check the installers through a engine like virus total 6 out of 72 engines report an issue. 66 engine wouldn’t touch the installer at all.
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Resolved.
I needed to completely shut down my antivirus and tell windows to “run anyway”. The n it finally accepted the files. All is good thanks guys - now i just gotta learn how to start this jet. -
FYI,
I’m using “Bitdefender Total Security 2020” and U3 was not reported infected with anything.
Few months ago, U1 and U2 was reported infected by Bitdefender and I have flagged them as a “False positive” after receiving some answers from the “Dev Team” here.
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All good with Norton 360 Deluxe on all U1, U2 and U3…
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Cap’n Strangelove or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the DL
Legitimate concerns of course, false positives are like that - but we all have several options to verify that the BMS torrent we download is 100% legitimate and unaltered, and same with the exe file it downloads. The BMS team would not intentionally or inadvertently include a truly positive malware in their software, or it would be the last day anyone ever download their software - it would be dev suicide as soon as us lot found out, right right?
How can you verify for yourself a download file from BMS?
Step one is to download the torrent.
Step two is to open Powershell - press Windows Start Key and type, Powershell and press enter
Then, you need the path and name of the torrent you just downloaded - edit my example below and then copy/paste into Powershell’s command line and press enter. (altering the algorithm as needed)Get-FileHash -Algorithm SHA256 "C:\Downloads\Falcon_BMS_4.34_U3_Incremental.torrent"
Should look something like this:
(edit - more info on this command can be found here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.utility/get-filehash?view=powershell-7 )Step three is to go to this page here at BMS website to view the Checksums for the latest release, or the release you are working with:
https://www.falcon-bms.com/downloads/
(link updated for new forums/website Jun2022)Scroll down and you’ll always see something like this:
File: Falcon_BMS_4.34_U3_Incremental.torrent Size: 10.2 KB CRC-32: 1a159171 MD5: 72a3cbd7f6570247ccca6394d6b18691 SHA-1: 225d2585ddb6d4518653fca93e39709b954dbd18 SHA-256: fecab172fd6fcea9786e6ad2ebc1c8a3757a111f50f825a9d9369fd8e111b7ba File: Falcon_BMS_4.34_U3_Incremental.exe Size: 30.6 MB CRC-32: df43d20c MD5: c34e0fcf2d3e1b0a6522b764f0a2a772 SHA-1: 7da1ebbed70265c1f96942b0223bd3b4c802e19a SHA-256: 66f3201cf70dadfc9db72ebcd1ee30ffcc57ae976f7f812b86cdcde31e21b610
You’ll notice that the SHA256 hash we got from the Powershell window matches the SHA256 Hash of the file in the checksum published by the BMS Team.
You can do this for each of the Algorithm methods published (CRC32/MD5/SHA1/SHA256)You can also do this once you have downloaded the .exe through the torrent before attempting to execute it with Windows. If the file-hash matches the published checksum, then it has not been altered in any way, and is trusted/safe as far as we all trust the Falcon BMS Development team, and on that note let’s just say that teams of white-hat developers do not allow people on their teams to inject items that they would not approve of, and it would be a little difficult to “sneak” such things in depending on how the team functions - if it’s anything like most online project teams, these guys all know and trust each other and respect each other’s work. People who like to make creative works don’t decide one day to just screw over everyone with malware for no reason, malware is a thing but not something to worry about from trusted development teams with a very long history of honorable dedication and a track record of dependable and harmless sim software.
Hope that helps anyone not tech minded to rest easier when these things pop up. Especially when trusted developers also publish checksums we can verify before executing a download.
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I too have encountered problems.
Turn OFF AVG for a second and still it won’t let me run or even COPY the file to another folder.
Looks like Windows messages, not AVG….Oh, but now I’ve run it from my download folder and ignored all warnings it looks like it’s running. In BMS I trust
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I have just had problems with “U3” caused by Avast (I think). Even disabling Avast did not help. I only resolved the problem by redownloading “U3”, disabling Avast, and then running the file and it installed with no issues. I presume Avast may have quarantined part of the file the first time I tried installing it resulting in why it would not install in subsequent attempts after Avast had been disabled but looking in the “Virus Chest” nothing has been entered in it today. So its a mystery, perhaps a bad download.
In fact on reflection, it could not have been a bad download as I was getting an error message reporting suspicious files etc. Sadly it was not also reporting what program was reporting an error, just a normal Widows “Window” so could it have been Win 10’s only antivirus program?
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