Mass Effect 3 ME3Explorer trojan

[annoyinganakin]

Hi. I want to download an EDI face mod that, like 95% of all other ME3 mods, needs ME3Explorer to install. However, at the moment I'm wary because when try to I download ME3Explorer, one of my AV software, 360 Total Security quarantines it because it says it has a trojan horse. 360 might be misreading it, and I've got nothing to worry about, but I'm sure as hell not taking any chances. Is this happening to anybody else, and if so, is my AV's warning legitimate? I hope it's not.

Edited September 27, 2016 by annoyinganakin

[KkJiro]

This is a very common error caused by the AV misreading the texmod program as a virus.

[moho25]

Yep, what Kkjiro said.

 

You can view Nexusmods virus report associated with the file, and see that it's due to Texmod -- which is a widely used program in its own right. Luckily, we've figured out how to use TPFs w/o Texmod, so those EXEs will no longer be present in the toolset with the next stable release. Which will be soon.

 

Btw, you can pretty much count on every file on Nexus being virus free. I've never had a problem in... 6 years. And, if a file has almost 30K downloads on Nexus (like the toolset) and your AV is reporting it as malicious, it's virtually guaranteed to be a false positive. If it actually contained a virus, Nexus would have pulled it long before 30K downloads.

Edited October 2, 2016 by moho25

[itchyburny]

This is a very common error caused by the AV misreading the texmod program as a virus.

Not to necro an old thread, but I wanted to add not only does my own antivirus not read ME3 Explorer as a virus but Nexus itself lists some of the files as manually verified. I also have never had a problem with any viruses coming from files hosted on the Nexus, OP.