I’ve built a JME game project and now I’m setting up a web site to distribute it.
I’ve created a Windows .zip file to be downloaded by the user. When I use my own site on localhost to test download the zip file, my McAfee virus software says its detected a virus or spyware in the ZIP file. Obviously I don’t want users to be put off by this.
What’s the cause ? The Clean and build process says it is signing the JARS so why is there a problem ?
If I right click on the Windows zip file in Windows Explorer and select “Scan”, the virus scanner finds no issues, but when I try to download from local host it gives an error ?
Sigh… got that shit at work too, it finds virus where they aren’t and miss viruses where they are…
I’d try to chnage my anti virus…
Try Avast or AVG.Both have free plans that are efficient.
From what i remember, usually antiviruses give you an id for the type of the virus, that looks something like that W32/EvilVirus.
If you search for it here: http://home.mcafee.com/virusinfo/ you can get the full description that could probably help in understanding why mcafee doesn’t like your software.
It’s not my virus software I’m worried about, it’s what the users will think will they get a message saying my game file has a virus.
I sent the file to the site below and about half the virus checkers thought it was ok, the other half didn’t. I scan my pc regularly so I don’t know where the warnings are coming from.
You said that half the antiviruses thought there was a virus in the file, but this link says none of them think there’s a virus. Can you post the right link?
I assumed that where there was a green tick, the file passed, otherwise it didn’t. I probably didn’t read the results properly. However McAfee still reports an error when I try to download the file from localhost.