Got Virus from Virtual Villagers download.

I was downloading Virtual Villagers from the official Games4theworld website. I was scanning it with AVG and it found two viruses or something on it. I just thought I should let someone know so they could check it out and fix it or something.

SarcasticallyDances wrote:I was downloading Virtual Villagers from the official Games4theworld website. I was scanning it with AVG and it found two viruses or something on it. I just thought I should let someone know so they could check it out and fix it or something.

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Hello and welcome to the Forum,

I'll keep it short: that was a "false-positive". See the explanation here:
http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/false-positive

You often have the case that with cracked games, they are being detected by anti-virus software as malicious, while there is no issue whatsoever. You may or may not believe me at this point, and that is that I suppose, but you may also want to think about this here: who exactly is benefitting from the fact that cracked games are being 'destroyed' by anti-virus software? 

If you plan on downloading more cracked games/software in the future, you will have to get used to these false alarms I am afraid.

That makes sense. I just knew that I had downloaded a cracked game before on here and didn't get that false positive so I was confused. I am trying to be careful where I get games from so I don't mess up my computer.

SarcasticallyDances wrote:That makes sense. I just knew that I had downloaded a cracked game before on here and didn't get that false positive so I was confused. I am trying to be careful where I get games from so I don't mess up my computer.

Yes. For example, the crack of The Sims 2 for some strange reason gets purged very often, whereas the cracks for The Sims 3 don't. Things can be strange at times, I guess. Was there anything else about Virtual Villagers 2 that you wanted to know?

Not specifically about the virtual villagers but more about what it "detected". The security system detected Win32/heur virus. Is that the only thing it mistakes it as or could my security stuff mistake the cracked games as anything?

By the way: AVG suck$. I myself use avast, though it may not necessarily be 'the best' (what is the best will greatly depend on the individual user and what exactly the computer/device is also used for) - but avast is still good enough for me.