Hi im new to gog and have just purchased some games from my past, however i have downloaded one of them and been advised that the exe file is infected with a trojan, it was ground control that i downloaded, has anyone else encountered such notifications?

sorry if this is not the correct location for this type of message.

it's false positive

Phew was about to start crying then, lol :O) thank you

No worries, it happens from time to time (I mean false positive alert)

But it's just too big DD store to let thing like this happen.

Or they're secretly implanting viruses into our computers and stealing our personal info and this is all a part of a huge conspiracy.

What is your anti-virus program and what was the game ?

The OP stated in the first post that the game was Ground Control ;)

What antivirus package do you use?

If I have leaned anything from listening to those crazy UFO and conspiracy nut radio shows, its that this conspiracy is mearly a cover up for a much larger, more dangerous, and more real conspiracy. So you don't really have to worry about that personal info. Its just a distraction, and will probably not misused or anything.

GOG sometimes uses cracks for disabling copy protection from games. It's possible that your antivirus found some codelines from such crack and considered it as a threat.

100% false posivite.

I would suggest OP disable their AV during install(or at least the active file scanner part of the AV) as some more agressive AVs will delete anything they consider a virus if they detect it running, and this may mess up the installer exe file. I had it happen with some cracks for some games I downloaded. The AV would detect me un-raring a crack file into a game folder and detect it as a virus & delete it.

I would advice against that, even if you have an A/V solution that allows you to disable it for only a few minutes before it's automatically turned back on (it's not something you want to forget to turn back on).

A better, IMO, solution is to exclude the source and/or destination folders for the duration of the installation. If you're like me and use trainers now and then, make sure you disable the exclusion before running the trainer (lots of false positives in trainers == perfect target for real trojans/virii etc - always check type of virus if alerted; generic/heuristic warnings are usully ok but YMMV) or at least do a custom scan on the trainer (some need to be run to unpack the dangerous code so that's not always enough).

I didn't say to disable the firewall, just the active scanner. And of course if one scans the files before using them then shutting off the active scanner when using such files shouldn't be a problem in most cases.