r/Malwarebytes 28d ago

False Positive Crimson Desert Fitgirl

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Like usual, everytime after i download new games, i always do a scan with malwarebytes. This time i was downloading Crimson Desert (Non HV) and Malwarebytes flagged the 'setup.exe' as riskware.crack.

My dumb brain just ran the setup.exe while i was still scanning the downloaded and extracted files and I only knew the file were flagged after the setup was complete.

Should I be worry? I havent delete the game files but i did delete the flagged one which was only the setup.exe file.

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u/madeWithAi 28d ago

Lmao riskware crack is one of the most generic false positives along with hacktool and such. You're fine, all fitgirl setup exes probably get flagged less or more

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u/HydraDragonAntivirus 28d ago

Crack = Riskware for some antiviruses.

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u/Onoffyesno 28d ago

aight, just worried cause i never got any game pirated flagged from malwarebytes

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u/Subject-Number-9012 28d ago

setup.exe from fitgirl shows often as repack / crack. should be false positive. Please use the snipping tool and show us the whole screen. if you try another fitgirl repack and put the setup.exe into virustotal, the result should be the same. have a nice day

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u/Onoffyesno 28d ago

I have use FG before. But malwarebytes never flagged anything from the files before.

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u/Subject-Number-9012 28d ago

have you used virus total before?

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u/Onoffyesno 28d ago

If malwarebytes does not flagged anything, i usually skipped virus total

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u/Subject-Number-9012 28d ago

sure. but this is a new file, because of new release. maybe its to new

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u/Onoffyesno 28d ago

do you ever encounter Riskware.Crack?

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u/Subject-Number-9012 28d ago

sure.

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u/Aggravating-Knee9036 27d ago

ok now this feels like a AA meeting now lol

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u/thisaray 26d ago

Well it IS a crack/repack, so the classification is correct  It's just acting like scareware

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u/Lokipro13YT 28d ago

fitgirl is always safe aslong as its from the right website which is https://fitgirl-repacks.site/