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AppGameKit Classic Chat / Malwarebytes has started flagging and removing AGK IDE as ransomware tonight.

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xCept
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Posted: 20th Jul 2018 02:21
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Just a heads up. Right in the midst of using the Tier 1 IDE tonight the executable vanished. I reinstalled and it happened immediately again after launching. That's when I noticed Malwarebytes had flagged it as ransomware and quarantined it (and all of its shortcuts). I had been in the Android Export view and did export in that way a bit this afternoon but the second time it got quarantined I had never exported anything from it yet.



TGC can report this to the Malwarebytes forum and send them a copy of the AGK.EXE file for them to whitelist.

https://forums.malwarebytes.com/forum/42-file-detections/
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fubarpk
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Posted: 20th Jul 2018 02:54
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The easiest and quickest solution is to add AppGameKit to the exceptions
https://support.malwarebytes.com/docs/DOC-1130

My personal experience has been that malwarebvtes is one of the worst programs to do this
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Paul Johnston
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Posted: 20th Jul 2018 15:46
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Thanks for letting us know, previously we had a problem with the Tier 1 compiler getting flagged, and talking to F-Secure about it they said that signing the executable would be the way to go, and it seems to have worked. I'll try singing the IDE as well in the next version.
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Phaelax
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Posted: 20th Jul 2018 23:09
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Has anyone contacted the creators of malwarebytes so they can fix this false positive?
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