Virus warning when launching CF

No problem on my end (NOD32)

there are other reports of avira false positives in the CF files:

report 1
report 2

probably your avira antivir is reporting crossfire as an heuristic detection... meaning that the antivir cannot recognize the file as a virus, but the crypted structure of the file makes it suspicious...
let me quote myself:

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Originally posted by Arvedui

there is no virus in cf files, but the heuristic engine of some versions of avira detect part of the crypted code of the mod as some kind of unknown virus
the description provided by avira is quite a revelation: "A generic detection routine designed to detect common family characteristics shared in several variants", or, in other words: this file is partly crypted and i dont know what it is so maybe its a virus... or maybe not...

to stop your antivir doing those false positives open the "configure antivir" window (right click on avira tray icon), select expert mode and then, both in "scanner" and "guard", select "scan", then "heuristic" and uncheck the "Win32 file heuristic" checkbox

the file heuristic is only used to search for files that could be a virus but have not been included in the antivir virus definition files yet, so, if you update your antivir in a daily basis, its completely safe to disable file heuristic

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Suggestion: Use Kaspersky

Learn to spell ^^. Anyway that's partially true, it's heavy when it's doing important stuff, but if you don't want your computer to catch a virus in the first day of it's reinstallation: use Kaspersky.

NOD32 is the best in paper but Kaspersky is the best in Performance... at leasy 80% will agree with that (depending on various factors :D)

sudden appearance of a warning should be taken more serious as this file has nothing to do with the CF release

Ive read that some ppl at SP have similar problems with this file... to me it sounds like something is really wrong there and not just a false warning
problems dont start all of a sudden without reason

either that or there was an update of the antivir which causes these messages

Two suggestions since I haven't used that A-V: Find an exception list or change to another Anti-Virus.

And a radical 3rd one reinstall windows.

if its a false positive it should be solved in the next updates of the antivir... so update it asap...

on the other hand my avira is not detecting anything wrong with CF, but i disabled the heuristic years ago and it got updated ths morning

if after updating you still get the same reports, you can wait some days till a new update is released.

anyways, to be sure thats a false positive, you should check that file with other antivirus and see if they see it as a virus or not
there are some that can be used online so you dont need to download and install it...
you can also use www.virustotal.com, where you can submit the file and it will be scanned by several antivirus engines

i have avira too and if i have anything to say about it...it sux:everytime i install CF i get some warnings even if there's no virus

Well I can tell you this. If you want to be secured use Kaspersky, it does miracles to your computer and it creates hell for the viruses

avira is not bad at all, however its known for giving some false positives... is for that i disabled the heuristic long ago and i look carefully every positive before deleting the file

it also has a free version, and that is a big advantage against kaspersky (sry jack, i dont intend to prevent you to get your commission from kaspersky labs sellers department :P)

kaspersky is also a very good antivirus, but its also non perfect... in fact i treated some computers on past december where kaspersky did a false positive in explorer.exe and deleted the file with no warning (search in google if you love technical details :P)

to say it fast: windows wont work if you delete that file so i got some work restoring files that should have never been deleted...
...that means i got some unexpected bucks thanks to kaspersky labs guys and i wish to thank them for that

Well I've been using it for what ? 5-6 years now if I'm not lying myself. It has never done anything worse than protecting my PC 100%

my 2 peneth is use AVG woo hoo

Unfortunatly there is no such thing as a 100% fool proof Anti Virus program out there .... i myself use Bitdefender 2008.....does the job well and doesnt hog resources like most.... there is a league table for Antivirus programs starting at the best and working down and they are as follows each product is graded on its ease of use.... Protection Quality....and customer services:-

1) Shield Deluxe

2) CA

3) BitDefender

4) Norton

5) Kaspersky

6) NOD32

7) Panda

8 ) McAfee

9) Trend Micro

For more info and comments on each AV program take a look here:

http://www.2009softwarereviews…er=2GAS&keyword=Antivirus