nucular's Mod has a virus?
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I don't know what's happening, I downloaded the mod a month ago and a virus was detected (some few days after the 1st download). I had to uninstall the mod. After a month I took the desicion to download it again and the same problem, except that it's worse now. My laptop was littarely lagging and I had to restart it. I really don't know what's happening; other people seem to have no problems with it. My suspicion is that the aplication "Powder.exe" has the virus; I read that most of the time files, archives and aplications that end with "exe" turn out to have a virus. Please respond, I like this mod but I also don't want to ruin my laptop, I want a solution. The only way to get rid of it is deleting it. Well, that's all I got to say. Bye. -KadenKat
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It's definitely not true that most applications that end with ".exe" are viruses, but many viruses do end in ".exe". I'll look into that.
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A .exe file is just a standard Windows executable, so unless most Windows programs are viruses, that's probably not true. windows does have the most viruses though
I tried running it - there's nothing really suspicious about it, although it is prone to crashing and occasional massive lag.
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There are lots of viruses from exe files, but that doesn't mean having lots of exe file isn't safe, in fact your computer has A LOT of exe files (like Paint, Photoshop, your web browser, your anti-virus/internet security, etc...). The only thing is that it's possible to make viruses out of exe files, I haven't heard that you can make a virus out of a png/jpg/mp3/mp4/wav/midi (and even more that I can't list) file.
So if you want to download a software, make sure that it's not suspicious and download it from it's official website.
Nuculars mod is safe, maybe you have a virus from another software or from visiting an unsafe website like what johnpears said :P
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It should take you to dropbox.com because @nucular used this website to upload his mod. If it takes you to dropbox.com then you are fine (I don't think it's possible to take you to another website though).
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@KadenKat (View Post)
Unless you can prove that it is infected (and find no other infected executables which could've spread to it), it has no virus.
Source: https://www.virustotal.com/file/d8a290f60a7c5430c1bb366ce34f04d37a78587811829f8f2566f6a788a7e652/analysis/1421423007/Edited once by nucular. Last: 16th Jan 2015 -
@KadenKat (View Post)
Do you have an antivirus program installed, or did you think it had a virus just because your laptop is lagging?
