Anyone getting reports of Malware on their android games?

part12studiospart12studios Member Posts: 620
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I got a report from someone who said two of my older games came up as malware. I haven't updated them in ages so nothing changed recently on my end. I was wondering if perhaps there are false positives or if there is a trend because I dont' think anyone wants to see their games associated with viruses.

The guy was using AVG for Android. I haven't tested it on my phone yet to confirm, but will soon.

Thanks,
Caleb

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  • KevinCrossKevinCross London, UKPosts: 1,894
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    There was discussions about this a little while ago, and I think it was something to do with analytic data being sent back to GameSalad being flagged as suspicious.

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  • part12studiospart12studios Member Posts: 620
    Yea that's what I suspected, but yea that's unfortunate to think someone might see our GS games as malware and be inclined to remove.. I was fortunate that the guy who pointed it out to me was a fellow game dev who knew me enough to ask rather than assume the worst.
  • jonmulcahyjonmulcahy Member, Sous Chef Posts: 10,408
    yea once the full privacy details of what is collected is given to us you can construct an detailed privacy policy to send to those people complaining.

    even better will be when the ability to opt out will be introduced.

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  • part12studiospart12studios Member Posts: 620
    yea that would be nice.
  • SinSquidSinSquid Member, PRO Posts: 135
    Ahhhh! I`m getting complains about this to. Should be done something about this. I don`t want my games to look like suspicious malware crap. :/
  • mataruamatarua Auckland, New ZealandMember Posts: 854
    I thought they would have sorted this out by now within the software or the Virus houses to set it straight. Would be a MUST DO ASAP in my book. Hopefully they are working at it :)
  • DigiChainDigiChain Member, PRO Posts: 1,288
    Yeah, this is still a major issue. Gamesalad are apparently working on an opt out of data collecting for Pro users - but still nothing yet.

    I've recently had to refuse 2 Amazon FAOD promotions because of this (I had terrible reviews when Amazon featured me last time due to this issue and won't risk a FAOD promotion again). Other GS users have had bad experiences due to this too.

    Gamesalad really need to sort this out, I'm amazed they haven't already to be honest!
  • ScoreDScoreD Member, PRO Posts: 6

    I just had this issue today. Any fixes?

  • BlackCloakGSBlackCloakGS Member, PRO Posts: 2,250

    @ronnyrader @DigiChain try the 0.11.1 RC and if you are still having an issue let us know.

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