[SOLVED] xigncode sees "Process Hacker" as a suspicious software (0xE019100B)

(Steve Martin) #1

So I was cleaning my Windows 7 system and used quite a few utilities to clean up Windows temp files, caches, old system logs and dump files from crashes, setup my paging file properly, uninstalled old games, saved data, etc. etc. etc…

Came across an old utility I used to love and forgot about called ProcessHacker. This wonderful tool essentially replaces the Windows Task Manager with a more robust and powerful third party open-source option.

When this is running and I try to play Dirty Bomb the game kicks me out to the desktop 5 seconds after the game loads up and you see this on your screen:

http://filthybomb.com/forum/download/file.php?id=5

When you click on the “Get More Info” link you can find this in the help file that pops up in a browser:

http://filthybomb.com/forum/download/file.php?id=6

Long story short don’t use “Process Hacker” with Dirty Bomb.

Xigncode, the process/file scanner that loads prior to the db splash screen, sees it as a suspicious program.

So you’d have to kill the process and stop the service for this to work.

After brainstorming about it with a fellow computer professional we came to the conclusion that this is probably due to the fact that “Hacker” is in the name of the program that’s running and nothing actually technical since Process Hacker doesn’t hook into the game technically speaking.

Just beware of this if you’re a power user who likes to tinker and tweak and mess around with their systems.

Hopefully this doesn’t put me on some kind of list or something… and I guess that’s one reason I’m reporting it here.

I’m not even sure if any devs at Splash Damage have access or can do anything about the xigncode portion but I hope this can be fixed somehow as Process Hacker doesn’t give anyone a leg-up in the game and isn’t anything close to “suspicious software” as xign claims.

Thanks.

(Steve Martin) #2

awesome.

now I can’t play for 2 days. this is great.

special shout-out to the devs in charge of xigncode.

nice work, guys… nice work.

(Ardez1) #3

[quote=“Steve Martin;45783”]awesome.

now I can’t play for 2 days. this is great.

special shout-out to the devs in charge of xigncode.

nice work, guys… nice work.[/quote]

The AC is being replaced. No clear word on when. Hopefully soon.

(Steve Martin) #4

Hey this is great news.

I hope it’s punkbuster and not VAC… but either will be a vast improvement for sure.

Thanks for the information. I really appreciate it.

Now if you could tell me that there will be dedicated servers for us to make our own public homes with and private/scrim/match servers that would be even better.

If you get a chance tell the devs that this change/addition with dedicated servers would turn this game into a great game worthy of a PC Game.

(Ardez1) #5

Hey this is great news.

I hope it’s punkbuster and not VAC… but either will be a vast improvement for sure.

Thanks for the information. I really appreciate it.

Now if you could tell me that there will be dedicated servers for us to make our own public homes with and private/scrim/match servers that would be even better.

If you get a chance tell the devs that this change/addition with dedicated servers would turn this game into a great game worthy of a PC Game.[/quote]

The devs have stated several times on the Dev stream that the type of server you are asking for doesn’t fit the model of the game. :frowning: I was asking for those servers too… Private Matches, which are essentially like temporary password locked servers, will be implemented in the future though.

And I agree completely that they are needed.

(sparseZebra) #6

@Steve Martin said:

After brainstorming about it with a fellow computer professional we came to the conclusion that this is probably due to the fact that “Hacker” is in the name of the program that’s running and nothing actually technical since Process Hacker doesn’t hook into the game technically speaking.

More likely the reason is that process hacker is a useful reverse engineering tool, and it does some things that are rightly considered suspicious. It’s a common enough tool that perhaps they ought to let it slide due to the number of legitimate users, but it certainly has more nefarious uses.