Portal 2 flagged as containing a virus by Norton

Last night I got this notice from Norton Internet Security reporting Portal 2's exe as containing a high risk trojan...



Doing a Google search on it brought me here... Portal 2 flagged as containing a virus by Norton :: Steam Discussions so yeah something is going on. Anyway I'm going to leave mine quarantined till I hear more on this and delete if necessary. It wouldn't be the first time an AV gave a false positive so we'll see.

With that anyone hear anything else?

Thanks.

Fake don't worry about it.

Im using avast free and can recommend it.

badger906 said:

its not a trojan.. do you think valve, the biggest games supplier in the world for pc games would infect one of their best selling titles?? its just norton being norton..

I read an article today about how norton makes almost no money a year from paid for subscriptions. Their only income is because they are bundled with new build, everyones realises its crap so uninstalls it instantly with all of its bloatware, hence they get no new licence income or money from renewals! says something about their service if you ask me!!

Well I'm one who never bought into the fear mongering hype of Norton is crap. Anyway this was also posted as info. As to the issue at hand, yeah it is false positive. The Steam forums are all over it.

Oh BTW, Norton isn't the only AV company to issue false positive results, and they won't be the last. It happens.

Later.

sygnus21 said:

Oh BTW, Norton isn't the only AV company to issue false positive results, and they won't be the last. It happens.

Later.

Hm not really from what i heard/read they flag game.exe files so they will scare pirates lol...but it's only a myth still could explain why portal 2.exe glows red i don't have portal 2 so can't confirm it.

You got game from Steam/Value so why worry i don't get it.

I have Avast Free as well and I get those from time to time, annoying and the truth is that, unless you are a PC guru, you can never know for sure so I just take it easy and take a few gambles if I know that it comes from a game or something that I believe to be real... sometimes that has failed!

MrNeeds said:

Isn't the portal 2 executable file called hl2.exe? I may be wrong, but it's using the half life 2 engine so it should be using the same executable.

No, its not.

Half-Life 2 and Portal 2 are two completely different games. And yes... I have both games.


Anyway this issue is resolved as its been determined this is a false positive on Norton's part. Something in the new Av updates that suddenly flagged the Portal 2's exe.

Thanks

Well, duh. OF COURSE Portal 2 has a virus: GLaDOS.