So, LoL is a trojan

[NerfedFalcon]

Or at least that's what Trend Micro is telling me. I've had the game on my hard drive for about two months now and it's never said anything about that yet - now, all of a sudden, I try to launch the game and the launcher disappears from my Start menu and my desktop. Then TM gives me a prompt to restart my computer to "finish removing malware". I ask for details and it says the LoL launcher is a trojan.

It's probably scanned it a whole crapton of times before and never had a problem with it, but now suddenly I have to restart my computer to get rid of it. Regardless of your personal opinion of the game, is this true, or is my security software overreacting?

Appropriate Captcha: run amok

Edit: The game's files, at least those being kept on my end, are still here - it's just the launcher that's been removed.

Edit 2: Apparently there's about 10 files that it took exception to, but it won't give me details besides "it's malware, reboot so I can get rid of it". But since it's only 10 files, one of which is the launcher, I'd have to reinstall anyway and then it'd probably get mad at me again in another couple of months.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

It'd be interesting to find out why it's giving a false positive like that. I wonder if Trend Micro recently flagged p2p software? The LoL launcher uses a modified form of BitTorrent to distribute patches.

Heck, the fact that it patches games might be sending a false positive. Avira has a habit of flagging certain types of mods, because much like a virus, they exploit vulnerabilities in software (in this case, a game engine) so they can modify it.

 

[evilneko]

Obviously a false positive. Just restore it from the quarantine and then set up an exception so it doesn't happen again. Oh, and if there's a way to do it, report the false positive to Trend.