Malicious Script in Visual Pinball

[terabit]

My norton antivirus pop up a "Malicious Script Detected" when I try to run many of my pinball games. Should I run the game or is this something anyone has seen before? Norton says the activity is "OpenTextFile", Object is "File System Object" and File is "VPinball.exe. Any ideas on what this is?
Thanks
Glenn

[lucindrea]

try going to trends site and scanning that dir , also scan the dir that vpinball lives in when it's not running with norton , odds are their is nothing wrong with it just norton doesnt like the way it's handling the files while it's running , if on the other hand it finds somthing in that dir when it is not running then deffintly look into it ... install vpinball from a fresh download into another dir and see if you get the same message.

[ITrek]

All you need to do is select the "Authorize this script" option when Norton pops up the warning message.  Norton is just complaining because Visual Pinball is running a Visual Basic script directly.   It's not a real threat.

[Howard_Casto]

Being a CIS major, specializing in IT I can tell you, without any uncertainty that any commercial anti virus program for home use is absolute and utter crap.  Their "active scanning"  is too paranoid in places where it shouldn't be yet they easily allow more malicious viri to slip in.

Do yourself a favor, never waste money on an anti virus program again. 

Download the freeware version of AVG anti-virus  from grizsoft.  It is actually more efficient at stoping viri than any commerical program out there.  Plus, it's less bloatware, it has a smaller footprint and it'll only bother you when it finds a real virus, not a "potential one". 

Also on a side note do NOT pay for the deluxe version.  Even by thier own words they only reccomend it for a corporate setting. 

Of course people won't beleive me.  It's hard to swallow that you've been throwing away 40-100 bucks every few years for nothing. 

[Minwah]

Of course people won't beleive me.  It's hard to swallow that you've been throwing away 40-100 bucks every few years for nothing. 

I believe ya, we use Norton at work and I've only ever used AVG at home.  I'd take AVG anyday.

[ErikRuud]

I would like add a vote for AVG.  I have been using it for less than a month now, but I am already pretty impressed.

They do seem to be having a problem with there Auto-Update servers right now.  You can download the latest file and update locally until theu get there server problem fixed.

[jcrouse]

I'm curious, do you guys run AV software on your cabinets?

John

[Minwah]

I'm curious, do you guys run AV software on your cabinets?

Not me, I don't want it to have to connect to the internet (although ****ing XP forced me to do it once or twice)...

[jcrouse]

I do connect to the internet with both of my cabinets but only the Windows update site. I run XP SP2 on all my systems. Like or dislike Microsoft it's awfully hard to ignore that their OS's have some issues and the updates help resolve the issues. I do most of my management remotely using a mapped drive from my main system.

[ErikRuud]

Yes, I run AV software on my cab.  It is connected to the internet, and has become my primary PC at home.  My wife uses the regular desktop upstairs.

I use it for MAME, Non-Emu games, JukeBox, Email, Net Surfing, Video Capture/Editing and DVD burning.