Trojan in GP3???

Since today, everytime i start the game, ZoneAlarm alerts me that GP3 (the Class warez one) wants to communicate to the internet.... Has it happened to anyone? Any reason what the hell it wants to do that? To me, either it's a trojan in the Class version or Hasbro wants to know about us... Watch out!

On Mon, 31 Jul 2000 22:45:50 -0400, [email hidden] wrote: >Since today, everytime i start the game, ZoneAlarm alerts me that GP3 >(the Class warez one) wants to communicate to the internet.... >Has it happened to anyone? >Any reason what the hell it wants to do that? Ummm, maybe GP3 really *wants* to go out and play on the internet, but Sir Geoffrey and Lord Bernie won't let it? :) "But in a way, fear is a big part of racing, because if there was nothing to be frightened of, and no limit, any fool could get into a motor car and racing would not exist as a sport." -- Jim Clark

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>Since today, everytime i start the game, ZoneAlarm alerts me that GP3 >(the Class warez one) wants to communicate to the internet.... >Has it happened to anyone? >Any reason what the hell it wants to do that? >To me, either it's a trojan in the Class version or Hasbro wants to >know about us... >Watch out!

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In article <39868952.5364247@news>, Dt wrote: > > It's never happened to me and i have Zone Alarm running 24/7. I've > been using the game for about two weeks every day, never seen any > mention of it trying to "call out" in Zone Alarm's logs. > I bought this up Friday and I also am running WinME with the retail copy of GP3. So maybe WinME is the culprit, why it should do that who knows. Would be interesting if someone with more knowledge could look at the logs of ZoneAlarm and see what's going on though. Seb

On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Jay J wrote: > It's reasons like this that I refuse to download a Warez version of ANY > game.... Not the illegality of having a game I didn't pay for as much as > fear that I've just opened a can of worms on my PC! This behavoiur exists in the retail version - don't know about the warez. So if it's a can of worms, it's of the Hasbro brand ;) Andrew -- +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ | Andrew Busch | email : [email hidden] | + PhD Student | + | Research Concentration in Speech, | Just when you think something is | + Audio and Video Technology | idiot-proof, somebody builds a + | QUT, AUSTRALIA | better idiot. | +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+

On Mon, 31 Jul 2000 [email hidden] wrote:

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> Since today, everytime i start the game, ZoneAlarm alerts me that GP3 > (the Class warez one) wants to communicate to the internet.... > Has it happened to anyone? > Any reason what the hell it wants to do that? > To me, either it's a trojan in the Class version or Hasbro wants to > know about us... > Watch out!

I have the same thing happening. Not sure if it's just looking to see what type of TPC network you have or what - since it can't get past my firewall anyway, I don't really care. But I'll have a look at some packet traces sometime and see what it's doing.. Andrew -- +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ | Andrew Busch | email : [email hidden] | + PhD Student | + | Research Concentration in Speech, | Just when you think something is | + Audio and Video Technology | idiot-proof, somebody builds a + | QUT, AUSTRALIA | better idiot. | +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+

Since today, everytime i start the game, ZoneAlarm alerts me that GP3 (the Class warez one) wants to communicate to the internet.... Has it happened to anyone? Any reason what the hell it wants to do that? To me, either it's a trojan in the Class version or Hasbro wants to know about us... Watch out!

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> Since today, everytime i start the game, ZoneAlarm alerts me that GP3 > (the Class warez one) wants to communicate to the internet.... > Has it happened to anyone? > Any reason what the hell it wants to do that? > To me, either it's a trojan in the Class version or Hasbro wants to > know about us... > Watch out!

Whether it was added to the warez version by some cyber creep or by hasbro, if true it would be hilarious. -- [email hidden]

It's reasons like this that I refuse to download a Warez version of ANY game.... Not the illegality of having a game I didn't pay for as much as fear that I've just opened a can of worms on my PC! JJ

On Tue, 1 Aug 2000 13:18:11 +1000, Andrew Busch <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>On Mon, 31 Jul 2000 [email hidden] wrote: > >> Since today, everytime i start the game, ZoneAlarm alerts me that GP3 >> (the Class warez one) wants to communicate to the internet.... >> Has it happened to anyone? >> Any reason what the hell it wants to do that? >> To me, either it's a trojan in the Class version or Hasbro wants to >> know about us... >> Watch out! > >I have the same thing happening. Not sure if it's just looking to see >what type of TPC network you have or what - since it can't get past my >firewall anyway, I don't really care. But I'll have a look at some packet >traces sometime and see what it's doing.. > >Andrew

I don't know if there's a relation, but just before it happened, I've installed WinME.

On Mon, 31 Jul 2000 22:45:50 -0400, [email hidden] wrote:

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>Since today, everytime i start the game, ZoneAlarm alerts me that GP3 >(the Class warez one) wants to communicate to the internet.... >Has it happened to anyone? >Any reason what the hell it wants to do that? >To me, either it's a trojan in the Class version or Hasbro wants to >know about us... >Watch out!

It's never happened to me and i have Zone Alarm running 24/7. I've been using the game for about two weeks every day, never seen any mention of it trying to "call out" in Zone Alarm's logs.

On Tue, 01 Aug 2000 00:56:40 -0400, [email hidden] thus spoke: >I don't know if there's a relation, but just before it happened, I've >installed WinME. > Nah, saw someone else mention this the other day too. Probably something to do with MP. -- Nos

writes: BWAHAHAHAHAHA....! Sorry, but I *love* that... :) Eldred -- Tiger Stadium R.I.P. 1912-1999 Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett GPL hcp. +59.33 Never argue with an idiot. He brings you down to his level, then beats you with experience... Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

It's probably just checking for any kind of network or communication device, just like GPL does when you run it. <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> Since today, everytime i start the game, ZoneAlarm alerts me that GP3 > (the Class warez one) wants to communicate to the internet.... > Has it happened to anyone? > Any reason what the hell it wants to do that? > To me, either it's a trojan in the Class version or Hasbro wants to > know about us... > Watch out! >

Yeah.....it crashed on me when I was starting Multiplayer as 2 of us in the LAN where "Internet Sharing" and that was using Win98 Ashley <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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| On Tue, 01 Aug 2000 00:56:40 -0400, [email hidden] thus spoke: | | | >I don't know if there's a relation, but just before it happened, I've | >installed WinME. | > | | Nah, saw someone else mention this the other day too. Probably | something to do with MP. | -- | Nos

"Simon Brown" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:Scyh5.2679$[email hidden]... > It's probably just checking for any kind of network or communicationdevice, > just like GPL does when you run it. Yes that would certainly be a reasonable explanation. Maybe it is doing so much of that checking that the multiplay can't work properly :-) -- [email hidden]

On Tue, 01 Aug 2000 10:33:02 +0100, Wooky <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>In article <39868952.5364247@news>, Dt wrote: > >> >> It's never happened to me and i have Zone Alarm running 24/7. I've >> been using the game for about two weeks every day, never seen any >> mention of it trying to "call out" in Zone Alarm's logs. >> > >I bought this up Friday and I also am running WinME with the retail copy >of GP3. So maybe WinME is the culprit, why it should do that who knows. > >Would be interesting if someone with more knowledge could look at the >logs of ZoneAlarm and see what's going on though. > >Seb

I returned to Win98SE (Counter Strike was jerky with WinME). Now GP3 don't try to access the internet anymore!?!?!? (Nice feature in WinME to be able to uninstall itself and return to the previous version. I'm impressed...)

On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Wooky wrote:

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> In article <39868952.5364247@news>, Dt wrote: > > > > > It's never happened to me and i have Zone Alarm running 24/7. I've > > been using the game for about two weeks every day, never seen any > > mention of it trying to "call out" in Zone Alarm's logs. > > > > I bought this up Friday and I also am running WinME with the retail copy > of GP3. So maybe WinME is the culprit, why it should do that who knows.

I don't have WinME, so that isn't the problem. The only reason I noticed is because my games computer connects to the internet through my other server, and the routing software I use lets me know when connections are initiated - and one is whenever GP3 starts up.. Andrew -- +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ | Andrew Busch | email : [email hidden] | + PhD Student | + | Research Concentration in Speech, | Just when you think something is | + Audio and Video Technology | idiot-proof, somebody builds a + | QUT, AUSTRALIA | better idiot. | +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+

Same thing happens to me (with the WAREZ). I use Guard Dog instead of Zone Alarm, and I get the same warning. Of course, I answer "no" to the question of whether I want to allow it to connect. Who knows what the reason is for trying to connect...... [email hidden] wrote:

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> Since today, everytime i start the game, ZoneAlarm alerts me that GP3 > (the Class warez one) wants to communicate to the internet.... > Has it happened to anyone? > Any reason what the hell it wants to do that? > To me, either it's a trojan in the Class version or Hasbro wants to > know about us... > Watch out!

Garrotto) thus spoke: Get the latest version. -- Nos

ZoneAlarm logs?? where are these? Last that I saw it did not support this, please inform me! SLG [email hidden] (dt) wrote:

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>On Mon, 31 Jul 2000 22:45:50 -0400, [email hidden] wrote: > >>Since today, everytime i start the game, ZoneAlarm alerts me that GP3 >>(the Class warez one) wants to communicate to the internet.... >>Has it happened to anyone? >>Any reason what the hell it wants to do that? >>To me, either it's a trojan in the Class version or Hasbro wants to >>know about us... >>Watch out! > >It's never happened to me and i have Zone Alarm running 24/7. I've >been using the game for about two weeks every day, never seen any >mention of it trying to "call out" in Zone Alarm's logs.

(All spelling errors are intentional and are there to show new and improved ways of spelling old words. Grammatical errors are due to too many English classes/teachers)

On Wed, 02 Aug 2000 13:28:50 GMT, [email hidden] (Steve Garrotto) thus spoke: >ZoneAlarm logs?? where are these? Last that I saw it did not support >this, please inform me! Get the latest version. -- Nos

go get the latest version of Zonealarm, it now provides a log file, and btw the version that supports logs, has been out for months Martyn_D Steve Garrotto wrote:

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> ZoneAlarm logs?? where are these? Last that I saw it did not support > this, please inform me! > > SLG > > [email hidden] (dt) wrote: > > >On Mon, 31 Jul 2000 22:45:50 -0400, [email hidden] wrote: > > > >>Since today, everytime i start the game, ZoneAlarm alerts me that GP3 > >>(the Class warez one) wants to communicate to the internet.... > >>Has it happened to anyone? > >>Any reason what the hell it wants to do that? > >>To me, either it's a trojan in the Class version or Hasbro wants to > >>know about us... > >>Watch out! > > > >It's never happened to me and i have Zone Alarm running 24/7. I've > >been using the game for about two weeks every day, never seen any > >mention of it trying to "call out" in Zone Alarm's logs. > > (All spelling errors are intentional and are there to show new > and improved ways of spelling old words. Grammatical errors are > due to too many English classes/teachers)

I am using 2.0.26, and I can not find anything that says anything about a log. I even told it to look for an upgrade it found nothing. . . how please. SLG SKurj <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>go get the latest version of Zonealarm, it now provides a log file, and btw >the version that supports logs, has been out for months > >Martyn_D > >Steve Garrotto wrote: > >> ZoneAlarm logs?? where are these? Last that I saw it did not support >> this, please inform me! >> >> SLG >> >> [email hidden] (dt) wrote: >> >> >On Mon, 31 Jul 2000 22:45:50 -0400, [email hidden] wrote: >> > >> >>Since today, everytime i start the game, ZoneAlarm alerts me that GP3 >> >>(the Class warez one) wants to communicate to the internet.... >> >>Has it happened to anyone? >> >>Any reason what the hell it wants to do that? >> >>To me, either it's a trojan in the Class version or Hasbro wants to >> >>know about us... >> >>Watch out! >> > >> >It's never happened to me and i have Zone Alarm running 24/7. I've >> >been using the game for about two weeks every day, never seen any >> >mention of it trying to "call out" in Zone Alarm's logs. >> >> (All spelling errors are intentional and are there to show new >> and improved ways of spelling old words. Grammatical errors are >> due to too many English classes/teachers) >

(All spelling errors are intentional and are there to show new and improved ways of spelling old words. Grammatical errors are due to too many English classes/teachers)