Posted October 30, 2008
Recent avast! antivirus database update comes with a surprise feature - it finds gogwraper (gogwrap.exe), which comes with some of our games, to be a trojan or malware.
Imagine our surprise when we found out that avast! treat our software as a virus. There is no easy explanation why this happen, we're thinking that avast! heuristic technology didn't work well this time and found some parts of gogwrap.exe to be close enough to some kind of real virus and triggers alarm. In the same way word 'antivirus' contains word 'virus' and that would be a good reason for avast! to trigger warning as well.
All games that triggers avast warning are already replaced with new one.
We've already informed avast! about that problem, but we'll try to solve it by ourselves.
Imagine our surprise when we found out that avast! treat our software as a virus. There is no easy explanation why this happen, we're thinking that avast! heuristic technology didn't work well this time and found some parts of gogwrap.exe to be close enough to some kind of real virus and triggers alarm. In the same way word 'antivirus' contains word 'virus' and that would be a good reason for avast! to trigger warning as well.
All games that triggers avast warning are already replaced with new one.
We've already informed avast! about that problem, but we'll try to solve it by ourselves.