Pokegen Safety?

[snowslide12]

I have never heard any problem about Pokegen having an attached virus, spyware, or trojan. What about the Pokegen software makes it so safe, reliable, and virus free?

[Codr]

Aside from someone with the expertise looking through the program thoroughly, you don't have any guarantee that it isn't malicious. All you can do is take my word for it and the fact that there have never been any reports of anything negative from it. (Excluding the occasional bugs that cause undesired effects on Pokemon data.)

As a side note, the new update system has the potential to trigger antivirus software alerts. The system creates a second, temporary exe when it's updated, which might get treated like virus-like activity. This is done because software can't overwrite itself while the copy is still running. Therefore a second copy is necessary in order to overwrite the original.

[snowslide12]

Ok thanks. I was just asking because after running Pokegen, my computer seems to be showing signs of a trojan horse I hope its just a coincidence

[Codr]

If you downloaded it from the link provided here, the problem wasn't from PokeGen.

[randomspot555]

Ok thanks. I was just asking because after running Pokegen, my computer seems to be showing signs of a trojan horse I hope its just a coincidence

Either:

• You're using a shitty anti-virus program or...
  
• Something else caused the virus.
  

[snowslide12]

I used the latest McAfee and Windows Defender scanners and they said I was fine. I may be bit paranoid because

Ive been getting lots of pop ups and program failure. Its probably nothing though.

[randomspot555]

Regardless of what it is, it isn't because of PokeGen.