Aight,

thanks for the warning!

This is a bit of a "Duh", but some people will ACTUALLY open them. *Shakes head*

Some people do create legit .jar things or .exe things, but a few of the ones shared on the forums are actually viruses or that.

If it's legit, a moderator will check it out and approve it. There's too many viruses floating around that we just can't risk it.

-P

Good inf

The only software that I've downloaded through pmc is mcskin3d :3 and I have 3 virus scanning programs so I think I'm good, but I'll take your warning. When do we know if an exe or jar file has been approved?

ok

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So... I won't get in trouble for flagging somebody's (seemingly) legit program? It's perfectly OK to just report it for being executable? Don't things like reporting non-malicious content go on our record??

Ok I won't thanks for the heads up

Wouldn't it be possible that the person that wonts to post it, sends sends it to a moderator who then posts it, i guess we can be sure that a moderator won't post viruses

I will do my honour!

If the chance that someone has a .bat file does the same apply?

Just get avast free antivirus and your safe forever lol

thank you,paril.
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Batch files are less dangerous because they are plain text and readable by anybody, whereas executables are harder to decompile in some cases. Still, they count, as users can easily make a batch file to wipe hard drives.

-P

alright paril, if i see someone like this i wont download it untill its been approved by a mod, thanks
-Dialga
also, we will keep blaming you on the blame paril hub

ParilThis is just a note to everybody browsing this forum: if somebody posts a .jar or .exe file and asks you to execute it, don't run it before a moderator has seen the thread. Report them immediately. Don't post in it, don't ask if it works, just report the thread for being an executable.

Thanks,
-P

Hey Paril,

I have a game i have made in executable format, it is 100% legit and there are no hidden virses ect, lots of people enjoy playing it and you can see for yourself that it is real. i wouldnt post anyhting that would result in me being banned from this community.

is there some way that you can mark my game as safe to download? because i think this post is useful but DOESN'T apply to ALL exe or jar files

thanks, Ice374

Well i'm actually new to the forums aswell, so I didn't know this. thanks

if you want to be realy sure that it is impossible that somebody whipes your hard drive or installes a virus you could use an sandbox, you could run those .bat, .jar and all other files in that sandbox that way it can't hurt your computer and the sandbox analysis the file whille it's running so you know exactly what it does

thanks for heads up

nyanekomimiI have 3 virus scanning programs so I think I'm good.

Are you sure that's a good idea? Most virus scanning and internet security programs tend to conflict with each other, so it's probably better off to just have one. Not trying to be critical or anything, just a bit of advice.