fce ultra trojan horse question

[majax79]

When I tried to access fce ultra, AVG popped up and said trojan horse, Dropper.Agent.GNP

I downloaded the fce ultra from emulator-zone. Does anyone know what I can do?

[azoreseuropa]

Try download different emulator to see if you got the same message.

[majax79]

Nesticle or Nestopia doesn't give me the same error.

It's weird though because I've played like 40 games and it was working fine last night. AVG auto updates in the morning.

[azoreseuropa]

Okay, to be safe.. Go to:

http://fceultra.sourceforge.net/

ENJOY!

[majax79]

I did download and unzip the source files from fce ultra but it seems confusing on how to install without an exe file.

Why would avg say that fceu.exe has a trojan after using the same file for months now?

I get a win xp error popup even if I turn off avg "windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item."

[ohnoihavenoname]

Same happened here. Had it installed and working fine for almost a year, and today AVG detected that trojan. It must have been sleeping until today.

[majax79]

I'm glad i'm not the only one to have this problem. So, where does that link on emulator zone for fceu download from? Someone should be notified about this so they can look into it.

I liked fce because I could click f5 or f7 to save or load state but I guess I can configure that with any emulator.

[Jale]

Most modern antivirus programs use an heuristic technique for virus detection. Even though FCE Ultra is not a virus, it may have a similar code of a virus and that's why AVG detects it as a threat.

This heuristic technique is there to prevent infections of unknown or new viruses.

[majax79]

Why would it detect it after months of use though? A new virus definition in updated in avg?

Is there anyway around it?

[ohnoihavenoname]

If it were a heuristics thing, it wouldn't have detected it for two different people on the same day after months/years of being installed and used. Nothing in FCEU should be programmed to change (and run) on a specific date. It's an infection.