Second Life Virus.

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Hello Hadyn, welcome to SL. You wont catch any virus from downloading SL, the only virus you'll get is a cold in rl from lack of sleep and draining your immune system while glued to the game.


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*Nibbles on my cookie*

For what it's worth, in close to three years of dealing with SL, I have NEVER had a legitimate virus, on Mac or on PC, that originated with Second Life.

On occasion, many years ago, some people would get false mesages from their antivirus or firewall software that SL was doing something strange durring installation. But I believe they improved the installers since then, to eliminate the source of that false positive warning.

No problem!

Welcome Hadyn.
Since last night things for me and several friends have bit rough in world, textures not loading, etc slowness can be caused by lag.
Some days this happens.

FD- are you using the regular client or the release candidate? I have all kind of trouble with the regular one but the candidate works like a dream.

/me hands you a cookie with dark chocolate chunks and macadamia nuts.

Hello I'm Jax.
I signed up in awe and wunder.Never gave a thought to downloading the "game" bc I got the link from a BBC website.
No I hav'nt had a problem with viruses . from here or indeed any 3rd party clients.
Unless you are already infected . if you D/L any official sanctioned viewer . yes I think it's safe.

"How do I know for sure that it won't harm my computer?"
You won't know this untill you "suck it and see"

Good luck dude with your choice.
see you inworld.Regards.

Hi Hadyn! Welcome to the Second Life (tm) that will over run your first life!

Are you M's alt by chance?



(inside joke - an "alt" or "alternate avatar" is a secondary login)

Well, theres no use in lying since u guys can already tell.
But i guess since there's a teen thread then its ok.
Yes, i clearly underage
lol. I was afraid to post anything about it previously
because I was afraid it would ban me.

well, im finally getting to play im excited!

Am I the first to have my virus checker pick up a virus that has originated within SL? Virus checket kept going mad so I decided to look at the origin which was in my SL cache under Textures (6). I haven't accepted anything apart from notecards and stuff from my groups so I have no clue where it originated.

Anyone else had this problem, or am I the first?

It's not necessarily a virus.
It is probable that a sequence of binary bits in a texture file matched one of the virus signatures being checked by your AV scanner.
If you put enough monkeys in a room with binary typewriters, one of them would eventually produce what looked like a virus signature.

You might like to set your scanner options to exclude the SL Cache folder from real-time scanning. If your machine is scanning every texture file coming in, that's just got to impose a huge load and slow everything down for you.

I've had Second Life installed on my computer for seven months & have not had a virus. I'd say it's completely safe.

I thought that's what HIP was for.

Just an idle question...errrrmmmm...how old are you? Your use of leet speak and all the gaming questions is making me wonder if you should be on the teen grid. Just sayin

Notice this young lad.



See how he's yanking your chain. Isn't he cute?

Thanks Sling. It showed up as an ACG virus and I just deleted the 'infected' file it pointed to (which had been quarantined). My machine is running quite fast so the checker doesn't seem to be affecting its performance.

Just as an aside, I have to wonder what the odds are for that sort of random false positive, especially in an image file. That has got to be a really rare circumstance.

Given the fact that it has a very high probability of addicting you and having you running out the door trying to figure out how you can afford a more powerful computer with really cool graphics capabilities, I would say that the only virus is Second Life itself.

But at least it is a fun virus.

BTW -- It is not a game. At least not in the sense that there is any real purpose or goal to accomplish.

I wonder how we guessed. Hadyn, may I recommend the teen grid? Please. Second life is an adult environment, and Iknow you feel like you're ready for it and you can handle it, but you aren't. Please consider the teen grid until you are an adult. It harms all of us when teens access the adult grid. It means we all have to be paranoid in the way we interact with friends; it makes SL look very bad to others, and it is harmful to you as you develop mentally. Please consider the teen grid. the adult grid will be here for you when you're an adult, and it will still be virus free, altough it will likely still be pretty buggy.




I'm applying for a government grant to study this theory. All I need is a bunch of typewriters, a LOT of monkeys, a train car full of bananas, and a video camera so I can upload the whole mess to Youtube.

Aaaaaaaaaaask Lesko!

I got a false positive once. Next thing I knew, I was lying in the hospital with no kidneys, a massive hangover, and a 30-foot-long tapeworm coiled on the surgical tray.

Oh, damnit, they got my kidney!