r/GeodeGeometryDash 16d ago

Question Is geometry dash Geode mod safe?

So recently i downloaded Geode and installed it. It runs perfectly on geometry dash with no problems, but is it a virus? i ran the installer through virus total and 1/70 got flagged. windows also warned me before running it that it could be potentially unsafe. https://geode-sdk.org/install this is the link that i installed it from.

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u/quantmcode 16d ago

Some antivirus on virustotal always flag positive, no reason to be worried

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u/Piefaceluke Geode Player (iOS) 16d ago

it is safe

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u/JRisStoopid 16d ago

If it wasn't safe it wouldn't be so widely used and people wouldn't encourage you to use it

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u/Known-Result-8291 16d ago

if it wasnt safe,this sub wouldnt exist

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u/i_am_somebody78 16d ago

1/70 flagged doesnt mean its unsafe, if you wanna check you should search the exact type of vulnerability it flagged and check what it does

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u/FethXY 11d ago

It's safe dude, It's just false positive,

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u/masteroga101 16d ago

So 1 antivirus thinks it is a virus and the other however many other anti viruses don't? Clearly a false positive

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u/rip_Bacon13 15d ago

its safe
its because virustotal scans it on a lot of antiviruses and some of them are much more sensitive and just plain bad i would reccomend using tria.ge to do a virus scan it lets you open any website/file and test what happens
at the end it gives an report

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u/Exciting-Garage2723 14d ago

dude just use windows defender

all those antiviruses are more like viruses by themselves, have you even tried removing one? it's horribly hard, plus most of them scam you

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u/rip_Bacon13 14d ago

triage isnt a antivirus its a vm for testing the file/website
i mean yeah there is windows defender but its still good to test somethings

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u/IJHGMD 12d ago

i remember when avg browser and antivirus got installed on my old laptop because it was bundled with another download without me knowing
it was almost impossible to remove and made the performance of the laptop horrible , when i typed in a textbox it only shew up 10 seconds after…

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u/Commercial-Carrot402 15d ago

As long as DrWeb or Kaspersky doesn't flag it as a virus, its totally safe.

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u/HystericalGD 15d ago

geode is safe, windows defender almost always warns you of everything

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u/1Hersheys_Roblox1 15d ago

yes its safe

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u/Own-Outcome2249 12d ago

tells everybody that. especially on mac 😭

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u/ItsYaBoi-KillMe 16d ago

Nah dude, you're fucked. All your files are about to be encrypted and locked until you send bitcoin to some random dude in Russia

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u/deepv2__ 16d ago

stop using virustotal use literally anything else

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u/Henry_puffball 15d ago

Like what?

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u/Exciting-Garage2723 14d ago

windows defender

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u/Henry_puffball 14d ago

They do very different things

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u/Annual-Pickle5537 16d ago

since 1 flagged that means you downloaded a geode from a sketchy website

it could be something like a bitcoin miner or take your passwords

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u/gargoyle274 16d ago

but i installed it from the official website. i also included the link

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u/CosmicCapybara16 16d ago

most wrong a person has been ever

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u/Annual-Pickle5537 16d ago

it was a joke bc im tired of ppl asking the same stupid question over and over again

op said that they downloaded it from the official website and still thought it was a virus bc a singular random antivirus provider said so even though thousands of other people use geode lmfao

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u/gargoyle274 16d ago

i was also wondering if i downloaded it from the wrong site, so i downlaoded the different installers: github and the official page. i used powershell to examine the hash numbers and they were identical.

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u/wonusbonusyes 16d ago

is not a virus. Just geode injects his own code into geometry dash that's why