[nicke157]

Hey. I tried download the GameCreate Client for windows but my antivirus application (Eset NOD32) blocked the download.

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[ryguy222]

Virus scanners are given a list of possible threats from the security compnay that sells or distributes the scanner. However, there are also mechanisms within the virus scanner that look for patterns that usually all virus's have. These patterns are various binaries, and also messages that could be executed when started.

A trojan is normally a desireable piece of software, that often will spam you with uncontrollable advertisements, or can give someone un-authorized access to your computer.

This IS true about the game create client (except for the spamming part it doesn't do that) It needs to be able to accept commands from the control panel (the online interface) and from that execute commands on the remote system. Because of it's ability to do such actions, many virus scanners mark it as a Trojan.

Since this program sort of has a decent level of access to a system, I would never run it on my personal computer. Not to say that GameCreate has ill intentions, but if anything were to ever be changed, or hacked, I wouldn't want hackers to have a front door into my personal computer.

Instead I have a few systems that I rent at Data Centers, and keep weekly backups on it that go to an offsite location. None of my personal info is stored on those machines, and none of my clients info is on there either. Just game servers, which isn't really valuable to most hackers. If something were to happen, I could simply wipe the machine, and restore the backup.