information Age of History 3 — trojan? No. Reasons. What to do.

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Recently, the game has been detected by antiviruses as a virus. Let's figure out what happened.

What is the source of the problem?

The game uses an open source library called “libgdx”. This library is a very popular framework used to write game engines. A recent update to this library has caused it to be detected by antiviruses as containing viruses. This issue is known. https://github.com/LWJGL/lwjgl3/issues/1005 https://github.com/libgdx/gdx-liftoff/issues/207 https://github.com/libgdx/libgdx/issues/7506

Why is it being detected as a virus?

This can be caused by many factors, but most likely it is a simple mistake on the antiviruses side. You should understand that they use certain computer algorithms to find viruses, and these algorithms are not perfect.

Are you sure it's not a virus?

libGDX is a popular open source framework. It is used by hundreds of thousands of developers. Anyone can check if any malicious code has been added to the latest update, even you (if you know Java). Nothing is hidden - and nothing has been found. No negative impact on the device has been observed.

When will the issue be resolved?

Lukasz has no influence on this situation. There are only two possible fixes - either antiviruses will manually mark the game as safe, or libGDX developers will fix the problem (in fact, the problem is that the antivirus perceives some of the code as similar to malware, so a fix is unlikely).

What should I do?

You should add the game file to your antivirus exceptions, and do this every time your antivirus marks it as a Trojan. You can also report the problem to the antivirus developers. Lukasz is currently trying to fix the problem himself, so he has temporarily removed the aoh3.exe file. https://steamcommunity.com/app/2772750/discussions/0/4632609113412559415/