MadDogTen, many of us have also reported a notice from Avira on this. Let me make another suggestion. When you get a hit like this, go to the software homepage and look up the description in their database, if they have one. I say this because I've had this experience before with Avira. For about 2 months, I couldn't go on my AT&T homepage without getting a hit. AT&T had changed some of it's ad scripting routines and Avira was hitting on it until they, or AT&T, made a change that fixed it.
The first thing that made me suspicious is that I played Air Bandits the first week and got NO hits. I didn't get the hits until a week later, when Air Bandits was sitting idle, which made me wonder if it was a true hit. So after I got the hit a couple times on Air Bandits, I went to the Avira database to check out the "Trojan". (The nice thing about Avira is the warning contains a link to that entry in the database.) There was only an empty entry there. No description at all. I've seen this before from Avira. My guess is that - under constant pressure to not miss new viruses - Avira comes up with what I'd call "working" definitions. In other words, they get suspicious behavior reported to them, maybe by some of their heuristics (heuristics are a good technology, but produce many false hits) and send that definition down to users temporarily until they can verify whether it's a real threat or not. Then, I suspect, they often repeal those definitions when it becomes obvious it's just a false hit. Often, probably, when they get a lot of false hit reports or someone actually uploads the suspected file to them so they can verify it's no threat. In general, I suspect a false hit when they can't tell me anything about the supposed virus.
The other litmus test I would use is that, since I was getting the hits while I was NOT playing, that Air Bandits might have been trying to phone home. But, since no one has reported any firewall warnings, yet, I've told Avira to ignore the hits. No problems yet. What's the emoticon for fingers crossed? :) Maybe I'll get around to uploading some or all of Air Bandits to them. After all, this is an older game. It's routines are well known by now.
You may not be saying this, Violet, but, in this case, I don't think Software Informer was the culprit. I don't have it installed and Avira's not hitting on the subsequent GOTD wrappers I've downloaded and installed since. I hope you're not right about the multiple aggravations but I've expressed a similar thought recently, so I think you have a point. IMHO, I believe this is aggravated by GOTD's paranoid (IMHO, again) secrecy policies. They apparently believe that admitting they have ANY problems will spook developers. Many of us feel, however, that just a simple "we're working on the problem" blog post would do much more good than harm (if any). Just plain old good PR, and I speak as a semi-pro, having done a little low level media work.
