The remastered game HomeWorld has just launched on steam, Upon opening the game’s beta multiplayer module Avast’s FileRep system detected HomeworlddRM as a piece of malware.
Here’s a Virustotal scan of the HomeworldRM.exe file.
I have reported the program as a false postive to the virus lab via the upload utility however I wanted to also raise the False Postive in public in-case anyone else whom is running home world gets a message about the virus threat.
The Filerep Block signature is normally used when a file hasn’t been downloaded enough times. It’s a safe guard to protect against malware. Other vendors are wrongly reporting that the file is malware. This is a false postive with 100% certainty. The game was developed and published by Gearbox Software the original PC port developers behind Halo and more recently Boardlands and Duke Nukem Forever (along with A:CM)