Malware

[Darkomenlol]

Is it safe to play this server? Will I lost my money and got malware and lost all my crypto money ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-HYi2z2xBE

Can u adress problem from that video ?
I just dont want to lose money or infect my computer with viruses

[Shlind]

Just because the ownership uses anonymous techniques to host to avoid being shut down and saved a project from completely vanishing off the internet does not mean its fraud or malware, if it was sketchy it would have been known by the community by now. Obviously you can assume things, but it would be very well known by now by the community that it is bogus by now. Blizzard wants you to think its a trojan, its just a client with wow on it though.

[Yuryilxg]

Hello dear community! I am not IT security specialist, just a simple guy who decided to participate in testing of this new and really great project, after TWow end..
I am running the game now on Windows 10 with it's native security updates.
While installing the game and it's mods via Octo Launcher I was several times warned by Windows security that some files had severe 'trojan' threats. Especially it was about one of built-in addons like 'vanillaFixes'.
Could I get any opinions about this and how to deal with that? Is it true or false detection? Or maybe it's just the matter of trust for today?

[Faint]

Brother ask yourself don't you think there are easier ways to get your malware into people's computers than to pay for server hosting that can host 500+ concurrent players out of pocket. Yeah, contrary to popular belief, server hosting isn't free. Plus the developers are actively bugfixing every day. If that's still not enough, the launcher is open-source so you can inspect and fork it yourself if you want. You could even connect to the server with a TWoW client by just changing realmlist. Windows Defender does give false positives, though, but this isn't exclusive to the OctoWoW launcher, it's also Ascension, it's also Turtle WoW launcher itself... Malware and scam allegation fearmongering is so fucking laughable can't wait to see all these content creators and clickbaiters eat their words.

[Yuryilxg]

Brother ask yourself don't you think there are easier ways to get your malware into people's computers than to pay for server hosting that can host 500+ concurrent players out of pocket. Yeah, contrary to popular belief, server hosting isn't free. Plus the developers are actively bugfixing every day. If that's still not enough, the launcher is open-source so you can inspect and fork it yourself if you want. You could even connect to the server with a TWoW client by just changing realmlist. Windows Defender does give false positives, though, but this isn't exclusive to the OctoWoW launcher, it's also Ascension, it's also Turtle WoW launcher itself... Malware and scam allegation fearmongering is so fucking laughable can't wait to see all these content creators and clickbaiters eat their words.

Ok. You may misunderstood my case here. It was not about all those current rumors about the project. It was only about some exact Defender detections in addons installations (which are probably not a part of Launcher itself) that I met. That's it. However thanks for your reply.

[Thedoc59]

VirusTotal (only TrendMicro and TrendMicro-HouseCall tho, so 2 out of 54 AV) detected a trojan (TROJ_RENOS.BHAM) in wow.exe in the client folder. I expected the executable to be as clean as a surgeon scalpel. Someone can please explain why is wow.exe infected by a trojan?

[Nseternal]

durka durka hurr durr durka durka can't even understand wtf the "cat" in the video is saying.

it's a well known FALSE POSITIVE that has carried over from turtle wow.

all these 1 post, 2 post accounts concern trolling lol fuck off.

[Atriana]

Spin up a windows VM and play from there, ez.

[Crimsonclaws]

Im confused! Why is this even being talked about? We all already know this! It's a false flag!
I mean come on this isn't new, TWoW had a false flag as well ya know!! So we already know its just Windows Defender falsely flagging something it misinterprets as a threat!