Why do mods give viruses? [Solved]

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Re: Why do mods give viruses?

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now i think he has micrsoft security essentials and avg.
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Re: Why do mods give viruses?

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you think that?

well do you know exactly what he has for his security?
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well we have avg and thank you for all the help, you guys solved my problem.
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Re: Why do mods give viruses? [Solved]

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FYI if you haven't noticed, the newest version of internet explorer assumes anything to be dangerous if only a few people have downloaded it...and that's the only reason...and after you download it you have to go out of your way to run it or extract it rather than deleting it (the dialogues want you to delete it by default)...so if it tells you a newly released mod is dangerous,
don't believe it.
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Re: Why do mods give viruses? [Solved]

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Jaspo wrote:FYI if you haven't noticed, the newest version of internet explorer assumes anything to be dangerous if only a few people have downloaded it...and that's the only reason...and after you download it you have to go out of your way to run it or extract it rather than deleting it (the dialogues want you to delete it by default)...so if it tells you a newly released mod is dangerous,
don't believe it.

thats why for 90% of my norton blocking i have to undo it, put exceptions, redownload files, etc,etc,etc... i hate norton sometimes...
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Re: Why do mods give viruses? [Solved]

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What was the problem, exactly? How did you fix it?

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I'm pretty sure I once had 2 versions of a Norton security before, and they flagged each other as malware! :funny2:
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