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wa64
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virus issue

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I'm not sure why this is happening. when I start Theotown, I get a virus warning and the game won't start...
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Re: virus issue

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so I ran antivirus and quarantined the Trojan. I reinstalled Steam,ran antivirus and was fine. I reinstalled Theotown from Steam site and when I start Theotown the Trojan is back...
not sure what else I can do...
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Re: virus issue

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Hi, does the issue persist? We've recently updated the version of lwjgl which caused a false positive with Windows Defender. I confirmed that the dll is the original one from here: https://www.lwjgl.org/browse/release/3.3.4/windows/x86 (it's a popular framework for java) and escalated the issue to Microsoft. I did not receive a response from them, yet, but it seems they whitelisted the dll by now.

This can also be seen by these anti virus test results: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/4d8 ... ba1f8ae3f2
Since it's a relatively new version false positives are not that unexpected.
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Re: virus issue

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Looks OK now. I reinstalled Steam and Theotown and the game works. Thank you Lobby
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Re: virus issue

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Sometimes false positives can happen with antivirus software, especially with new updates.
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