GoldenbanjoDJ
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Hey guys,
I just bought a very old game, American Conquest: Divided Nation, second hand from Amazon. I have the first two American Conquest games and I know that they do not natively run on Windows 7, but I created a dmcr.BAT file to make them work (fixes coulours by disabling windows aero) on Windows 7.
Now, after I installed the game, I made a BAT file for it, because the colour issue in this game would still happen under Windows 7. I double clicked the dmcr file I created and my kaspersky went wild, telling me that this software publisher could not be verified and was risky (It came up in a bright red WARNING box). I had seen this before on software and they were ok, so i just ignored it. Then I got 3 boxes pop up at the same time telling me something about windows losing its drivers. Then another box popped up telling me to restart my computer, which I clicked to restart. I figured this was just the game telling me it wasn't ready to play until I restarted my PC, which a lot of old games used to do of course.
After I restarted, Windows refused to start, and I got an infinite loop of me restarting my PC and it going to startup repair, and subsequently telling me it was unable to boot to windows or repair problems. After a LONG night/early morning of messing around with the command prompt, I FINALLY got windows to boot, although I was almost sure my computer had been absolutely screwed. My Kaspersy told me that trojans had been found, and it fixed them. I told kaspersky to scan the game files on my hard drive and it said there were no threats detected. Same when I told it to scan the game CD.
Can anyone who is a bit more in tune with software and/or viruses shed some light on the situation? Was the game infected? Was it my .BAT file that did the damage?
I am scared crapless to try running it again, and I know that it is not worth messing my system up for. I only want to know the cause, if it is possible to tell. Any software experts out there please share your opinion! I don't want it happening again!
Sorry for my essay! Dan
I just bought a very old game, American Conquest: Divided Nation, second hand from Amazon. I have the first two American Conquest games and I know that they do not natively run on Windows 7, but I created a dmcr.BAT file to make them work (fixes coulours by disabling windows aero) on Windows 7.
Now, after I installed the game, I made a BAT file for it, because the colour issue in this game would still happen under Windows 7. I double clicked the dmcr file I created and my kaspersky went wild, telling me that this software publisher could not be verified and was risky (It came up in a bright red WARNING box). I had seen this before on software and they were ok, so i just ignored it. Then I got 3 boxes pop up at the same time telling me something about windows losing its drivers. Then another box popped up telling me to restart my computer, which I clicked to restart. I figured this was just the game telling me it wasn't ready to play until I restarted my PC, which a lot of old games used to do of course.
After I restarted, Windows refused to start, and I got an infinite loop of me restarting my PC and it going to startup repair, and subsequently telling me it was unable to boot to windows or repair problems. After a LONG night/early morning of messing around with the command prompt, I FINALLY got windows to boot, although I was almost sure my computer had been absolutely screwed. My Kaspersy told me that trojans had been found, and it fixed them. I told kaspersky to scan the game files on my hard drive and it said there were no threats detected. Same when I told it to scan the game CD.
Can anyone who is a bit more in tune with software and/or viruses shed some light on the situation? Was the game infected? Was it my .BAT file that did the damage?
I am scared crapless to try running it again, and I know that it is not worth messing my system up for. I only want to know the cause, if it is possible to tell. Any software experts out there please share your opinion! I don't want it happening again!
Sorry for my essay! Dan
