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I own Half Life Generation and I have had it installed on two different PC's which are both running Norton Internet Security. Both times Norton alerted me of a virus and apparently it's coming from the Half Life disc. The 'virus' is coming from the 'Manual' folder and the filename is 'ar40eng'. It says it's the virus 'W95.CIS.damaged'. Is it really a virus? And if it is how did it get onto the disc? I would really appreciate it if somebody could clear things up for me. Thanks.

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This has just happened to me too. I am using AVG free anti-virus, and it detects something wrong in that same file ar40eng.exe ... but it claims that the virus is called Win32/Small.

I bought the game second-hand, but it doesn't look like a dodgy version (as if looks mean anything...)

Reply to Weird Dave
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Norton is normally worse than the virus it protects you from.
slows down your machine causes massive instability problems.
Will infect your machine by checking and unziping spam emails you would normally delete. Will cause programs not to install properly and will cause others to malfunction. Plus I really love it when I am fixing somebodies machine that is full of viruses and norton keep procliaming to me every five seconds how it protecting the computer as I am removing viruses it doesn't see. Any antivirus or spyware program that keeps running instead of scanning and leaving is really a waste of resources.
I have been using computers for thirty something years and never had a virus. Why simple I buy my software and music.

I used to like Norton back in the day before symantic got their paws on it.
I used to run it to chreck my machine. now they are massive bloatware products that clog your machine.

Reply to kgrach

kgrach wrote :

Norton is normally worse than the virus it protects you from.
slows down your machine causes massive instability problems..................................
I used to run it to chreck my machine. now they are massive bloatware products that clog your machine.



You are corrected sir.

To original poster, Norton is your problem not HL. Dump that bloated beast and run as far away from it as possible. Your PC will get like a huge speed and performance jump with that off your system.

I had that crap on an old laptop and it would take almost 5 mins to load windows. Removed and now its smooth sailing.

Reply to trialsking
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i concur with the Norton remarks, get rid of it. but am utterly surprised no one has offered you a replacement..

These are two FREE antivirus programs and are highly regarded between the IT community as the best antivirus you can get:

AVG: http://free.avg.com/
Avast: http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html

try em both, then use the one that you like the most :D

Reply to Flakes

I concur about Norton causing Windows to take ages to load. Since I installed it I have time to make a cup of tea whilst windows loads.

------------------------------ +46.53 Pedantry/+75 Wingding Approval/+27 Vindictive bastard/+7 innovative violence/+11 Scouse trophies/Bastages WD:9 RC:4 AV:1 [specials; cluster:2,leather elbow patched:1,pre-approved:3,first class (upgrade):1,multi-thread:1,double-barrel:1]
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