[2.2]Programmable AI via scripting

[Som1Lse]

Ran lf2.exe to start the game ddraw.dll was deleted by antivirus in my laptop.

Threat detected - WS.Reputation.1

I think it is not safe link if you don't have a good antivirus installed in your laptop/desktop.

Firstly, WS.Reputation.1 is not a type of virus like a Trojan or a Worm, but an indication that a program might be malicious due to only a small percentage of Symantec/Norton's customers using it, and possible other heuristics^[1]. Take a look at virustotal's report for the program (https://virustotal.com/en/file/8ee24475f...459255100/) and you will see that no other antivirus software reports anything for the file.

Secondly, the source code is open. You can download it and verify for yourself that it is not malicious, and people with programming experience in the community have done so already.

I would recommend reading this on how to make Norton shut up on this topic if you wish to use the software: http://www.ghacks.net/2012/06/25/how-to-...-1-system/

[A-Man]

My thanks to SomeoneElse's post is for confirmation. I haven't really combed through the source, but I could tell from what I've read in parts relevant to the injection process that there's nothing malicious with it here. Antiviruses just tend to get extra-cautious with injectors in general (as they're potentially harmful). Furthermore, upon looking up "WS.Reputation.1", the mother site explicitly mentions that it's only the antivirus being careful because "people don't usually go change the extension of their .txt files to .exe extension" (that being one case which would trigger the warning).

[Boop]

https://virustotal.com/en/file/f17e1d9ee...5/analysis

On a completely unrelated topic to AI, but related to false positives, the dll framework is detected by 13 antiviruses!

[mrsmallbee]

why DDrawRelease and DDrawDebug both call ddraw.dll?= =

[Gad]

Why do you care so much about the file name? You can anyway use only one at time.

The file has to be named ddraw.dll, for system to load it up automatically. DirectDraw api will load it up by default, if you change the name it won't start up and you would have to find a different way (most likely modding exe file) to pin it to the game.

[Som1Lse]

why DDrawRelease and DDrawDebug both call ddraw.dll?= =

Because the entire thing relies on the dll being called ddraw.dll, because that is what LF2 looks for. If we could have called it whatever we wanted we would have called it lf2ai.dll or something.