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1776 Virus infected patch? - The Scribbler - 01-17-2016 Hello.  Well, I've been away from playing for close to ten years now, and just this weekend went down into storage and dragged all my old computer wargames out.  I spent most of the day installing and updating my old HPS games and was surprised when I came across the update from HPS for 1776.  I was unable to update it as Norton found a virus in the download.  Has any one else received this message? ****Start of copy**** Filename: campaign1776_109.exe Threat name: WS.Reputation.1Full Path: c:\games\hps simulations\campaign 1776\campaign1776_109.exe ____________________________ ____________________________ On computers as of  1/16/2016 at 7:18:55 PM Last Used  1/16/2016 at 9:02:40 PM Startup Item  No Launched  No Threat type: Insight Network Threat. There are many indications that this file is untrustworthy and therefore not safe ____________________________ campaign1776_109.exe Threat name: WS.Reputation.1 Locate Few Users Hundreds of users in the Norton Community have used this file. Mature This file was released 5 years 9 months ago. Medium This file risk is medium. ____________________________ http://www.hpssims.com/Pages/Updates/up_EA/up_1776/Campaign1776_109.exe Downloaded File campaign1776_109.exe Threat name: WS.Reputation.1  from hpssims.com Source: External Media campaign1776_109.exe ____________________________ File Actions File: c:\games\hps simulations\campaign 1776\ campaign1776_109.exe Removed ____________________________ File Thumbprint - SHA: 067e89ed5dbfef792786ab32a6f3d57251fab6749b971cea95354c46769d13d4 File Thumbprint - MD5: Not available ****End of Copy**** Any ideas?  I get a similar error for Eagle Strike.  All my other games are fine.  Just wondering if there's a way to update around this problem or if it's just me and something's off.  Would there be a similar problem with the game if I were to buy it from the John Tiller Store?  Or is this not a real threat and I should just override Norton somehow and let the file go through (not sure how to do that though)? RE: 1776 Virus infected patch? - Compass Rose - 01-17-2016 I would email HPS support and ask them to make sure. [email protected] I am no tech however, I'd being willing to guess that you may have a false positive. Also, since you have HPS titles, make sure you are using HPS updates; don't use JTS updates. RE: 1776 Virus infected patch? - SLudwig - 01-17-2016 I get the same issues too. Caught me off guard at first, but then I overrode & no issues. Still, check with JTS/HPS. I think the new patches take care of the issue. 1776 has yet to get the new updates..... RE: 1776 Virus infected patch? - rahamy - 01-17-2016 Its a code signing issue - so a "false positive". Basically, in the Antivirus world these days you are guilty until proven innocent... RE: 1776 Virus infected patch? - The Scribbler - 01-18-2016 Thanks to for your replies. I've overridden Norton and installed both Eagle Strike and 1776.   Glad to be playing them again.  Thanks for the reassurance.  I suspected that would be the case as I couldn't imagine a virus attached directly to the stores download, but still... you can't be too naïve however if others are using it and there's no issue, I'm okay with it too.  Again thanks!! RE: 1776 Virus infected patch? - SLudwig - 01-18-2016 Glad to see it worked out. I knew it would, but wanted Rich to come along & say so. Thanks Rich! :)