Dear Community

I've just purchased Gothic 3. Yes, long time ago since I've played that wonderful piece of software.
Had no probs with downloading.
But then, tired to install it on my pc. After the installation wizard was trough the antivirus program came up with that message that somewhere in the gothic 3 folder is a trojan hidden.
Hmmm first thought.. thats weird, I absolutely didn't expect a Trojan in a Software downloaded from a serious website like gog.com, or am I wrong?
However, deinstalled Gothic 3 and gave it another try.
Now, another problem came up, tried to reinstall it and the computer came up with another message.
Cant install G3 cuz it cant create the folder called GOG Games.
Okey no problem. Lets see where it is.
Now, found the folder within drive/C. I've tried to delete the folder but it didn't work, although I'm the system administrator and so on.
Would like to delete that GOG games folder but I cant.

Does anybody of you guys has a suggestion how to solve that problem.

Thanks for your time and patience.

Greetings Iorekkk

I use Unlocker http://www.emptyloop.com/unlocker/ for whenever Windows tries to tell me no for deleting stuff.

A few games give false positives with virus scanners - its not that the game has malicous software, but the virus scanner thinks it does (and for some reason getting files listed as exceptions by the software developers appears tricky for some games - esp old titles where the false positive detection might be a new thing but the game itself is now out of production and the owning company isn't involved any more).


It should be ok to add the offending file to your virus scanners exceptions list.

Original War on GOG also flags up a false positive with some virus scanners as does Hidden and Dangerous 2.


I'm not sure what the problem is with the folder. Try:

1) Checking file properties and ensuring that its not set to "read only". That would explain why you can't delete it and why the game can't write into the folder.

2) Turn the computer off and turn it on again - generally helps clear many little "hiccups".

Otherwise you could always just give the game a new installation destination in the drive. So long as its in a folder (and you can make a new one for it) you'll be fine (heck you don't actually need a folder; but it makes it a lot easier to view and sort your data if its in a folder)

Wow thanks guys that was quick. I'll see what i can do.
Need some sleep befor I go back to 'work'.
means tomorrow I'll give it another try with your advices.

Thanks again

It's probably not common with games for many years now but in older games they often used the technique of self modifying code to provide different implementations of time critical algorithms for different microprocessors or similar then runtime patched the jump points to the optimal code path to reduce indirection overhead. Such polymorphism can be detected by virus scanners and potentially flagged by heuristics as virus-like activity.

Check your Gothic download files checksums with the checksums of the official GOG binaries. You'll have to hunt around a bit to find the site that posts them as I don't recall it off hand, but someone here might know. If your checksums differ from the official ones published it is possible your GOG binaries were infected on your PC after being downloaded. I own that game also from GOG and have scanned my entire download folder of 221 games and not getting anything showing up using 3 different virus scanners all configured to scan inside archives and scan all file types. Just a data point.

What version of Windows are you on?
If you're on Win 7, you could try to take ownership of that folder. Sometimes, it's just Windows playing up and a simple close and restart of Windows Explorer solves the problem (though not sure if it'll work in this case given that the folder was created directly in C:\). If everything else fails, Unlocker is a good solution in most cases (sometimes it also fails, but rarely).

You can change the path for your GOG games installations - when the first window opens, in the lower left corner there's a button called "Options"; clicking on it will open another window where you can change the path of the GOG Games folder.

Regarding the trojan - I'm more than certain that there's no malware in any of the GOG installers (provided they've been downloaded from GOG, of course). The message you got is a false positive that some of the older installers give with some A/V. What A/V are you using?