VN Others Completed Hardcoded [v1.08 Itch] [Ghosthug Games]

[LonerPrime]

This is not a trojan. Wacatac behavior is to copy or create files, then allow malicious people to take control of your system. Copying or creating files is a behavior of this copy of the game, given it's one big executable. The game has to unpack some files in order to work. That's what is getting flagged.

I've personally dealt with Microsoft when it comes to Trojans, and it's not a pleasant experience. One of the games I work with was flagged for carrying Doplik virus. After thorough investigation we found that the nwjs version used in the game was no longer being supported and they flagged it as Trojan intentionally to force developers to upgrade. While "newer is always better", in this case it broke backwards compatibility with Windows 7/8 as the newer nwjs did not support older OSes.

Long story short, MS didn't budge and a lot of players lost access to the game. It's rarely a "simple" choice with detection these days. Even false positives are being engineered on purpose. As a dev the choice is to eat the AV flags and have average joe panic or make changes that aren't exactly ideal.

PS: You spending money on the game doesn't really give you an edge in this conversation.

 

[fakyort]

save or gallery pls

 

[liukt]

Have you ever found a version without malware?

 

[MoreNow]

This is not a trojan. Wacatac behavior is to copy or create files, then allow malicious people to take control of your system. Copying or creating files is a behavior of this copy of the game, given it's one big executable. The game has to unpack some files in order to work. That's what is getting flagged.

tbf and tbh i recently culled duplicate games - zipped archives and unzipped folders. all from this website.
realistically from those hundreds of files, NONE of them gave me this warning. None of them flagged that specific threat.
so its beyond reasonable for me to appreciate what youre saying, even if it is 100% true and accurate; how did and how do all the other games, of all various kinds, do what youre saying, without also having this antivirus flag/"trojan"?

obviously its not worth ignoring, even if im completely wrong, and there is absolutely zero threat in actuality.

ill be unwatching and unfollowing this game; its 2025; the dev can figure out how to fix this, since it is again, the singular game/download out of around 100 that ive downloaded, that has flagged like this, from this website.

 

[jems666]

tbf and tbh i recently culled duplicate games - zipped archives and unzipped folders. all from this website.
realistically from those hundreds of files, NONE of them gave me this warning. None of them flagged that specific threat.
so its beyond reasonable for me to appreciate what youre saying, even if it is 100% true and accurate; how did and how do all the other games, of all various kinds, do what youre saying, without also having this antivirus flag/"trojan"?

obviously its not worth ignoring, even if im completely wrong, and there is absolutely zero threat in actuality.

ill be unwatching and unfollowing this game; its 2025; the dev can figure out how to fix this, since it is again, the singular game/download out of around 100 that ive downloaded, that has flagged like this, from this website.

Like I said before, Defender hates large .exes, just about every update for this game people mention it, search virus or trogan and you'll see
Bet if you bought the game from itch.io it would flag it aswell
Actually just searched the itch.io and yeah same thing

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138 days ago(-1)
Hi, I just now bought this game (been a fan for years and finally got to buy it!) and every time I've tried downloading the Windows file, my computer detects it as a "Wacatac.B!ml" file, a trojan virus.. Is there a way to fix this? I am so sad if my mom spent good money on a virus /:

Also searching the word virus brought up 10 people mention it, so yeah false positive because the dev mentions it every time it's safe
Also weird his mom bought him a porn game

 

[BobCarter]

Does anyone have a guide for this? Last time I played I remember there being a lot of things you could easily miss out on.

 

[leequangson]

any full save for v1.08?