Fences bought on Steam being detected as a malicious code/cryptomining

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Since some days ago, I notice that Fences started to act strange. Not loading, asking to buy it again, updating twice for the same patch version and, today, doing a scheduled scanning for viruses and/or malwares, ESET Smart Security Premium pointed that Fences now was injected with some malicios code.

 

The file is "LogicNP.CryptoLicensing.dll"  and the problem is that is a "CRYPTOOBFUSCATOR" .

 

Any statement from Stardock about that?

Thanks!

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Hello,
I have forward your problem/question to Stardock Support Team for their assistance. Please keep an eye on this thread for any updates. We appreciate your feedback and patience.

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Seems like we have a bunch of bad things cracking the code around fences...

 

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/5de806ecc79ef022eb441f42e354a7d5235c821547c9fbff36181a1898cf2a3d/relations

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Not speaking on behalf of Stardock here :

I think whats happening here is the activation code is being incorrectly identified by ESET.  Nothing in that report shows anything of concern.

The dll comes from http://www.ssware.com/ which is a legit company.

This happens far too often with AV apps and sloppy signatures detecting 'threats'

With regards to your other issues I am sure support will be along to assist shortly.