Question about Texmod.exe

[LilacLizards369]

Hi, I hope you can help (apologies if this has been posted in the wrong section).

 

I've been wanting to download a program called Texmod, which modifies in-game textures. I've read numerous accounts on other forums that many download links for this program are dangerous and contain trojans or viruses.

 

After a bit of searching, I eventually found the "official" link to the zip file, but despite what people have said about this link being safe, the virustotal scan gives conflicting reports: https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/79a8cdf24887ea98ad43bf2d408336d806dab7f8660d4f42a4b66b2f68e74df9/analysis/1402746079/

Quite a few people think most of these detentions are false positives... would it be safe to download this file? 

[MelissaGT]

Hi, I'm sure one of the experts will answer your question. I just wanted to add that I did download texmod from the official site and MBAM raises a stink every time I run it. I have also read that it does spit out false positives. I would love to know if this has been changed with the new version.

[AdvancedSetup]

You can zip the file and attach it in a reply and I will submit it for review, or you can put the link for the download within CODE TAGS so that it's not a hyperlink click link and I'll download it and submit it for review.

 

Thank you

[LilacLizards369]

Hi MelissaTG,

 

Thanks for the reply. Could you tell me which site you downloaded texmod from, as I'm still not sure which is the "official" one?

Also, when you said there was a new version, is this the 1.0 version of texmod (instead of the 0.9b one most links lead to), as I've recently come across a "newer version" of texmod called umod, apparently made by the same people. I have no idea if it's any safer than texmod, though. 

 

 

Hi AdvancedSetup,

 

Thanks so much for agreeing to test the link. Hopefully I've put the tags in correctly:

http://www.tombraiderhub.com/tr7/modding/texmod/download/texmod.zip

I've also come across a couple of other links recently - would it be okay to post these for testing in the next post?

[MelissaGT]

Hi MelissaTG,

 

Thanks for the reply. Could you tell me which site you downloaded texmod from, as I'm still not sure which is the "official" one?

Also, when you said there was a new version, is this the 1.0 version of texmod (instead of the 0.9b one most links lead to), as I've recently come across a "newer version" of texmod called umod, apparently made by the same people. I have no idea if it's any safer than texmod, though. 

 

 

Hi AdvancedSetup,

 

Thanks so much for agreeing to test the link. Hopefully I've put the tags in correctly:

http://www.tombraiderhub.com/tr7/modding/texmod/download/texmod.zip

I've also come across a couple of other links recently - would it be okay to post these for testing in the next post?

 

Hi LilacLizards, I suppose I didn't dl it from an "official" site. I use Texmod for Bioware games (mostly Mass Effect) and it is available on their social network. I am fairly confident that it's clean, as a lot of modders on the Bioware social forum link directly to it. If it was bad, I'm sure folks would raise a stink about it or it would be removed. You can easily find it by googling Texmod and Bioware together. 

 

As far as "new version," I was referring to the new version of MBAM. I've had the program for years and recently it prompted me to install a new version that looks completely different than the old one. 

[LilacLizards369]

Hi LilacLizards, I suppose I didn't dl it from an "official" site. I use Texmod for Bioware games (mostly Mass Effect) and it is available on their social network. I am fairly confident that it's clean, as a lot of modders on the Bioware social forum link directly to it. If it was bad, I'm sure folks would raise a stink about it or it would be removed. You can easily find it by googling Texmod and Bioware together. 

 

As far as "new version," I was referring to the new version of MBAM. I've had the program for years and recently it prompted me to install a new version that looks completely different than the old one. 

 

Hi MelissaGT,

 

Sorry for misunderstanding - I thought you meant a newer version of Texmod, not MBAM.

Does your anti-virus software think texmod is suspicious as well as MBAM?

[LilacLizards369]

You can zip the file and attach it in a reply and I will submit it for review, or you can put the link for the download within CODE TAGS so that it's not a hyperlink click link and I'll download it and submit it for review.

 

Thank you

 

Hi AdvancedSetup,

Sorry if you've already seen this - I wasn't sure if I replied properly to this post or not.

 

Thanks so much for agreeing to test the link. Hopefully I've put the tags in correctly:

http://www.tombraiderhub.com/tr7/modding/texmod/download/texmod.zip

I've also come across a couple of other links recently - would it be okay to post these for testing in the next post?

[SenjuBi]

You can zip the file and attach it in a reply and I will submit it for review, or you can put the link for the download within CODE TAGS so that it's not a hyperlink click link and I'll download it and submit it for review.

 

Thank you

Admin possible to test this TexMod too which i downloaded from the google code page version is 0.9beta i have not run it however i have unzip it. I have scanned with KIS 14 With latest update result is CLEAN. i have scanned on virustotal and the result is 8/53. I have deleted the file is the file safe? if not will i get infected by it even though i did not run to program and only unzip it? to test it thanks

https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/f662be61eee7c3d2849e1c734b3b83e9e25fa4e873c7352852130f0c0ceb98af/analysis/1403362205/

https://code.google.com/p/texmod/downloads/detail?name=texmod.zip&can=2&q=

[SenjuBi]

There is also a 1.0 roaming around the net so i not sure which is then the official version

Needed it to mod Shippuden Ninja Storm 3 Burst

[MelissaGT]

Hi MelissaGT,

 

Sorry for misunderstanding - I thought you meant a newer version of Texmod, not MBAM.

Does your anti-virus software think texmod is suspicious as well as MBAM?

 

Hi LilacLizard, I use Norton 360 Premier in conjunction with MBAM and Norton never had a problem with texmod. I can open texmod, but when I try to run any packages MBAM freaks out unless I turn off the real-time monitoring. I've read that MBAM doesn't like the way texmod works to load textures into a game as that type of behavior looks suspicious. 

 

Neither Norton nor MBAM flagged texmod when it was downloaded from Bioware's Social page. 

[MelissaGT]

Sorry for the messed up quote above - I would edit my post if I could!

[LilacLizards369]

Sorry for the messed up quote above - I would edit my post if I could!

 

Hi MelissaGT,

 

Don't worry about the quote - I've already messed up quite a few and wish I could edit them...

 

Thanks for the anti-virus info - I'm using McAfee Security Center and am hoping it won't decided Texmod is suspicious when I get round to downloading it.

Looking at this forum thread, it seems MBAM have updated their database with regards to Texmod: 

 

https://forums.malwarebytes.org/index.php?/topic/151268-possible-false-positive-texmodexe/?hl=%2Btexmod#entry845204

 

Hopefully MBAM will be okay about running it now.