Beamng exe has a trojan?

Well ... trojan Dont have to be placed into the Files by the Devs Right ?? ... but i dont think Steam itself would allow anybody to add anything to the games either

 

I have gotten this as well. Even steam wont launch it because they found a virus. i was looking forward to the new update...

 

despite it being unlikely that the devs have put a virus in their game deliberately, it is not impossible.

i would NOT disable antivirus to play the game. it puts our computer at huge risk from other threats

if this game has got a trojan in it, you are basically giving it free rein over your computer and data.

i would not exclude beamng either, id wait until it is completely fixed before playing

 

It's been proven via some people in discord it is a false postive.

 

it may be a false positive, but i would still not allow it access over my pc. id still wait for the devs to fix

 

I went into Windows Security when it detected the 'virus' and set it to ignore it and it fixed the issue.

 

Well i did the same ... File hide itself i tried to start up the game and It just showed me exactly the same problem with file despite the fact i allowed it

 

getting the same issue

 

It's the first time this has happened for me. But as stated by those above, allow it to run past defender and it'll migrate the files it needs and you won't have any problems after that.

The way I got past it: anyone who doesn't know how, open your local files of beam through steam and find the executable. BeamNG.drive.exe
- right click it and scan with windows defender
- it'll say threat found trojan or whatever.
- click the down arrow and allow it to run.
- run the file from the folder, and it'll initiate moving the beam files you had to the new directory and the game will run fine afterwards

 

Mine's running fine now anyway says 0.22.0.1
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You can do that, I just found it easier to disable AV, exclude the "program filesx86/steam/steamapps/common/BeamNG.Drive" (Mine's not there but thats where it is by default) folder with my AV, reinstalled the file that was missing via steam, and then reactivated my AV.

 

I looked Up the game files Opened Steamapps/Common/BemNG.Drive/Bin64 and launched the App there
Started perfectly On Beta 0.22.0.1 and shows me all of the mods
Dosent Show that im playing it On Steam Tho but idc bout it

 

Yup. having the same issue. Game worked fine yesterday.

 

You can do that, I just found it easier to disable AV, exclude the "program filesx86/steam/steamapps/common/be

Read mine and ThingThing62's last posts in this thead

 

What is naive about that. This is the first time they are seeing this issue. It wouldn't be the first time a disgruntled employee or hacker inserted a virus into reputable software. Take CCleaner for example. either way, bringing it up to the devs is the right move.

 

It was confirmed by the devs that it's a false positive.