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Revolver and Co

Take control of a revolver that asks trivia questions, and discharges its ammo the more wrong you are! · By Chequered Ink

Norton Security Freaked Out, Help?

A topic by MantaRayFish created Oct 24, 2022 Views: 219 Replies: 2
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Hey, lol, I know security features often give a lot of false positives so I'm hoping you can help me figure this out.  As soon as I tried to launch, Norton freaked out so bad it deleted the .exe and made me restart my computer.  One of the alerts said it found "SONAR.ProcHijack!g45" which the internet tells me is most likely an alert that triggers based on a specific behavior and not necessarily a trojan virus or anything.  Then it also said they detected a 'suspicious process' used to try and open a file in C:\Windows\INF\hidserv.PNF which I don't understand at all but seems to be doing something in the computer?  I don't even know what INF or PNF are, I'm really not an IT person, just using web search and it failed me.  

Could someone please tell me what's going on?  

Developer

Heya,

From what I can tell through Googling, the SONAR.etc alert appears to be a semi-frequent false positive result with games made in GameMaker. The latter, I cannot find any results at all about. The native game should not be accessing any area of your PC other than Localappdata (for storing your save file), and needless to say, there're no harmful files in Revolver and Co. Besides save files, everything in the game happens locally and offline.

My recommendation would be to perform a thorough scan of your PC just incase you have anything malicious hijacking .exe downloads, then delete Revolver and Co as you downloaded it and try redownloading it again and see if the issue repeats. If it does, you could try reporting it to Norton as a false positive. 

Let me know how things progress, am happy to help out further.

Allison James
Chequered Ink Ltd

Thank you, I did what you suggested and this time everything started up fine; though Norton still claims it's blocked the app from accessing the INF/PNF thing, the game seems to be working.   Weird random thing maybe. Thanks again for your time :)