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Ladies and Gentlemen:
Can you set my mind at ease? I just bought Imperialism II from GoG yesterday. I tried to download the game without using the GoG Downloader tool. The download failed but most concerning was that my AVG antivirus said the file included Trojan malware. I didn't write down the exact message, sorry.

Has anyone heard of contaminated downloads from GoG? This is my first time purchasing from them. They seem trustworthy but malware is scary. Was AVG being hyperactive?

Note: I also bought Alpha Centauri and Conquest of the New World and used GoG Downloader to install them without incident. Could AVG be interpreting something in the file as a Trojan?

Please advise and thanks ahead of time for your help. Imperialism II is one of my all time favorites. The games always go the same way yet it is somehow highly replayable.

-Muhdock
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muhdock: Was AVG being hyperactive?
Hi muhdock,

I would guess AVG found a false positive (thinks there is a virus when there is not). I use Avast and there are a handful of games that Avast finds false positives on. GOG is a reputable site. All downloads should be clean. Also any reason you are not using the GOG downloader? It allows you to resume the download if it is interrupted and it checks the file integrity to ensure you have an error-free download.

Anyway I just scanned it with the latest Avast, Malwarebytes and SuperAntiSpyware. Did not find anything suspiscious.

Here are the checksums for my download if you want to verify you have an identical installer as someone else:

setup_imperialism_2_2.0.0.4.exe
MD5: 49C71A331613C1476FFA00A8BD982029
SHA-1: 22C4ECDD60F71378392757EEE7F705A5DB5B04E9

You can use a tool like MultiHasher to determine the checksum of a file. If two files have the same checksum, then they are identical.

http://www.abelhadigital.com/multihasher
getlogan:

That's just the reassurance I needed. Thank you. Already downloaded it with the GoG tool. No issues....yet. I'm kidding. I'm sure it's fine. Looking forward to playing! And again, thank you.