So, I calculated the installation folder's size and it was 42MBs, so why do you download 564MBs? It is totally a virus, it is infected with RAT viruses, these type of viruses are meant to take control over your computer remotely, so this means the hacker person who provided this download link can access your computer and every detail about you.PlayFirst brought us the smash hit Diner Dash and then published a series of games all based from the first adventures of Flo and her local Diner Town community. I have even scanned it on VirusTotal, I will add the scan link at the bottom so you can take a look. The game is originally 7MBs, and here, it is 564MBs.

I have not been able to find any instance of these complaints before 2015, so I would figure at some point around that year the false positives began to crop up.Īll in all, I do not believe these antivirus reports to be accurate, and I can confirm that this ISO is a direct copy of the original disc. On eBay, Amazon, and other websites selling the CD version of the game, reviews note that customers have found their antiviruses preventing them from installing the game.

This seems to be an issue people are having outside of the Internet Archive as well. Most of the AV reports say 'generic' or 'behaveslike' or simply 'unsafe' rather than giving an actual threat name, and when it does provide a threat name, it gives the names of viruses that postdate the publication of the disc (for example, one AV identifies the game as the Hupigon trojan, which was first identified in 2008, three years after the game was published.) It certainly doesn't behave in any way similar to the types of backdoor trojan claimed by the likes of Microsoft Defender. I can only assume that, the game being an older one, modern AV heuristics are unaccustomed to the file and give false positives. However, the game does not seem to produce any malicious behavior when run: it doesn't drop any unusual files, it doesn't modify registry keys, it doesn't try to access the network, and the game runs fine.

(You can see a report here for diner_ dash.exe which the disc installs, 34(!) different AV vendors found something objectionable about it: ) The 'virus' mentioned is present on the original disc, I have compared this ISO to a copy of the disc I own and the checksums match, as well as the files on the own disc reporting similar issues on VirusTotal.

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