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shooter04

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« on: August 19, 2005, 04:23:46 PM »
i went to the DOWNLOADS from the home page.  i clicked HACKS.  then, i clicked 1.6.  i went to DETAILS and clicked DOWNLOAD THIS FILE NOW!  when i did, my antivirus displayed a warning saying that the file was infected, could potentially harm my computer, etc...  however, i downloaded this file before (got wiped during upgrade) and it was fine for my computer.  so, i closed the box and said SAVE.  i saved it to MY DOWNLOADS, since this is where i saved it before and it saved instantaniousl y.  i closed everything down and went to MY COMPUTER, then to MY DOWNLOADS.  here's my prob.  i double clicked the app, clicked RUN, and i got a dialogue box.  it says, " MAFIA Public v1[1].2.exe is not a valid Win32 application."  what is going on and how do i take care of it?  thanks for the help!
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« Reply #1 on: August 19, 2005, 04:28:20 PM »
Never heard of that problem before. What was your upgrade.
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shooter04

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« Reply #2 on: August 19, 2005, 04:29:17 PM »
it was for my virus protection.  i guess it has ur site's hacks tagged.  i don't know y, though.
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shooter04

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« Reply #3 on: August 19, 2005, 04:32:18 PM »
ok, ignore this thread.  apparently bachelor king is having the EXACT same problem as me.  i'll be there.
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« Reply #4 on: August 19, 2005, 04:33:54 PM »
well there has been people getting warnings from their anti-virus programs that the hack is a trojan horse virus and stuff, and this problem just surfaced for them after updating their anti-virus programs - being norton anti-virus from what I heard.
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« Reply #5 on: August 19, 2005, 04:50:23 PM »
that's me!  i really like Norton.  it's PIOMP and i let it take care of my biznatch.  what do i do?
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« Reply #6 on: August 19, 2005, 05:11:50 PM »
ok, i'm going to explain this.  

ppl have learned how to hack into ppl's computers using game files.  so, Norton is designed to guard against game files that could potentially be a Trojan Horse.  it recognizes these files by recognizing interuptions in code.  the hacks are interuptions of code.  this is how they work.  what Norton doesn't understand is that the hack is used to hack the SERVER, and not the COMPUTER.  that is y, despite the size, Norton thinks it's a virus.  however, there are ways to fix this prob.
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« Reply #7 on: August 19, 2005, 05:12:16 PM »
Quote from: shooter04
that's me!  i really like Norton.  it's PIOMP and i let it take care of my biznatch.  what do i do?

Erm. I don't know. You could ask what Bachlor King did. I think he got some other hacks, not sure.
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« Reply #8 on: August 19, 2005, 05:19:18 PM »
i don't know... i read it and it was EXACTLY like my prob.  v1.6  v1.2  norton givin me crap...
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« Reply #9 on: August 19, 2005, 05:30:10 PM »
Get rid of norton its garbage...
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« Reply #10 on: August 19, 2005, 06:49:49 PM »
That's what i did. :)
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« Reply #11 on: August 19, 2005, 07:14:40 PM »
Norton is hell a lot better what I got. Trend Micro PC-cillin anti-virus and crap. This program is pretty good at detecting viruses and stuff and making u aware of it by closing out the game u might be playing just for a tiny pop up alert but.....it doesn't remove the virus...just lets ya know it's there....
by the way I had Norton, but when upgrading to SP2 got incompatibiliy probs and wouldn't work. I miss my over protective Norton =(

Suggestion. Make a sticky or notice about this now common occuring issue as to minimize repeated threads.
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« Reply #12 on: August 21, 2005, 02:52:26 AM »
delete Norton, problem solved.. have a good day.
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« Reply #13 on: August 21, 2005, 08:33:16 AM »
I had the same problem. So I deleted Norton and installed Macafee. Since then no problems.
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« Reply #14 on: July 07, 2006, 11:13:05 AM »
when did missa get back?
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