edit: It appears to be the most likely scenario, anti-virus being stupid. Nothing to see here.
This started happening today, never happened before and I've had minecraft on my computer for well over half a year.
I just noticed my minecraft.exe shortcut was no longer on my desktop, so trying to find it, I couldn't, I went to redownload it from minecraft.net and it gets quarantined by my antivirus immediately, saying it has a trojan. Basically I looked at my antivirus quarantine list, and it deleted the shortcut and the .exe file.
I can still play it in browser fine though.
Here is the info from my antivirus.
RISK NAME: Trojan.Win32.Generic.pak!cobra
Catergory: trojan
Threat Level: Severe
Risk Traces: 1
(external hard drive file path)\minecraft.exe
I'm not about to force my antivirus to ignore this if it really is infected.
1st Get A better FREE Program Like Microsoft Essential
2nd It Might Have A Virus Because You Got Maybe A Cracked
3rd You Might Have Gotten A Virus Through Something Else And It Conflicted With MineCraft.Exe
Hm. Well I just find it odd because I've had minecraft and this software installed for months and had no problems with the two.
You probably just downloaded a new update that causes it to decide its a trojan based on its new database of what classifies as a trojan. The game is in a hidden directory by default so it probably thinks its a trojan trying to change files in hidden directories.
I can say with fair certainty it didnt BECOME a virus siting on your computer unless it had been infected by a virus you got elsewhere.
You probably just downloaded a new update that causes it to decide its a trojan based on its new database of what classifies as a trojan. The game is in a hidden directory by default so it probably thinks its a trojan trying to change files in hidden directories.
I can say with fair certainty it didnt BECOME a virus siting on your computer unless it had been infected by a virus you got elsewhere.
That makes sense. I just grabbed a new copy and told my antivirus to ignore it, so everything seems normal, must be just my anti-virus being stupid.
This started happening today, never happened before and I've had minecraft on my computer for well over half a year.
I just noticed my minecraft.exe shortcut was no longer on my desktop, so trying to find it, I couldn't, I went to redownload it from minecraft.net and it gets quarantined by my antivirus immediately, saying it has a trojan. Basically I looked at my antivirus quarantine list, and it deleted the shortcut and the .exe file.
I can still play it in browser fine though.
Here is the info from my antivirus.
RISK NAME: Trojan.Win32.Generic.pak!cobra
Catergory: trojan
Threat Level: Severe
Risk Traces: 1
(external hard drive file path)\minecraft.exe
I'm not about to force my antivirus to ignore this if it really is infected.
I use Fix-it utilities 11.
2nd It Might Have A Virus Because You Got Maybe A Cracked
3rd You Might Have Gotten A Virus Through Something Else And It Conflicted With MineCraft.Exe
You probably just downloaded a new update that causes it to decide its a trojan based on its new database of what classifies as a trojan. The game is in a hidden directory by default so it probably thinks its a trojan trying to change files in hidden directories.
I can say with fair certainty it didnt BECOME a virus siting on your computer unless it had been infected by a virus you got elsewhere.
That makes sense. I just grabbed a new copy and told my antivirus to ignore it, so everything seems normal, must be just my anti-virus being stupid.