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In a routine scan Kaspersky Total Security marked CrashReportClient.exe as Trojan-PSW.Win32.Stealer.xqy
Now I’m sure it’s just a false positive, the only thing that gives me to think is that every time Conan Exiles crashed in the past few days, I had a hard time getting Conan to COMPLETELY close, so Steam would let me start it up again without restarting Steam completely.
Again, I’m sure it’s nothing, I just want to make sure and report it just in case.
I would upload it to Virustotal and stuff, but the file is “in use” despite the fact that I have just started the PC and it should not be running. (ignored in Kaspersky)
And thats how companies like mail . ru or my . com infest your computer with intrusive software. I’m not saying Funcom is doing that, but I wouldn’t white list anything unless the company approves it or at the very least, do some research on the particular file.
Pretty sure it’s a false positive Kaspersky has done the same thing in the past, apparently it has something to do with how the reporter writes its logs (and other possible reason noted below):
While I disagree that antivirus is unnecessary, they are definitely not infallible and I would be inclined to trust most of what Steam lets on their distribution servers…
Edit 2 - Ignasis also commented on a similar issue some time back:
Kaspersky has done the same thing in the past, apparently it has something to do with how the reporter writes its logs (and other possible reason noted below):