Topic: My Brute - New World Regime - Join the Clan

[UncleBob]

I'm TheUncleBob.

Yup.  Norton + IE + MyBrute = downloader.Swif.C.  And the site is acting horribly buggy anyway.  I was wondering if they got hacked?

[EasyCure]

Are you BobT36?

I keep getting the downloader.Swif.C alert on mybrute.com, but only in IE. With Firefox I do not get the alert.
I have deleted all temp files, went through my registry, and had Norton do a full scan in safe mode. Nothing infecting my system. So, just to be sure I'm also doing a full scan with Malwarebytes. So far nothing. I think it is a false positive as the only people reporting it are Norton users.

this **** happened to me yesterday at work. I'm pretty sure we use norton here too. I couldn't get a single fight in >:[

[UltimatePartyBear]

I wouldn't be surprised if the site was just a vehicle to get malware on IE users' systems.  I was wondering what their angle was since the only ads on the site are for their other games.

[EasyCure]

so.. no more NWR clan?

[UltimatePartyBear]

I don't know about you, but I don't use IE. 

[EasyCure]

I don't know about you, but I don't use IE. 

Its all i got at work.. and thats the only time i get to fight brutes lol

[BlackNMild2k1]

I have a level 7 Brute and I'm a FireFox [/anti mac/pc/ie commercial]

a NWR Clan is only a few more days away.
a New World Regime is only a few more days away.

[Stratos]

I was wondering about the sites slowness too. I use Firefox as well.

My sister loaded the site in IE and it didn't do anything there. I even ran some anti-virus/spyware stuff and it came up clean.

I figured they used brutes to draw people to their other games that require and email to sign up. That's where they make money, from their other games gathering emails and selling them to spam companies.

[BobT36]

Are you BobT36?

I keep getting the downloader.Swif.C alert on mybrute.com, but only in IE. With Firefox I do not get the alert.
I have deleted all temp files, went through my registry, and had Norton do a full scan in safe mode. Nothing infecting my system. So, just to be sure I'm also doing a full scan with Malwarebytes. So far nothing. I think it is a false positive as the only people reporting it are Norton users.

Hi there, and no, I am. I found here while doing another round of research on this, I assume you've seen some of my posts in a few other forums about it since I've been attempting to collect information to try and figure this out.

So far theres 3 possibilities:

1. MyBrute itself is infected.

2. Its a hidden Trojan on our machines.

3. Its a false positive.

So far it seems only users with Symantec AV and IE are getting the message that its blocked a "downloader.swif.c" from the temp files folder. Its possible that it could be something on our machines thats manifesting on MyBrute only (though I have seen ONE person mentioned it happned on another flash site) and this is why Im trying to get information from as many places as possible since my Norton + MalwareBytes scans are coming up totally clean, I've up to date definitions and flash plugin too but I'm still having the problem.

However I'm starting to believe its a false positive caused through a recent Symantec definitions update thats being a bit hyperactive with its detection since up to now I haven't seen anyone else mention they're getting the problem with any other AV software and most are playing fine and say their machines are coming up clean. However this doesn't mean that its totally safe yet so be careful still.

I've made a topic over at the Symantec Community Forums that some "Gurus" have replied to, hopefully they're giving it a test and will forward something up the chain and find out whether its a false positive or not. The full story, as well as a few relevant posts from other topics are on there: http://community.norton.com/norton/board/message?board.id=nis_feedback&thread.id=47181

Please let me know if you're using Symantec and playing fine, or you're using something other than Symantec + IE and are getting the downloader.swif.c message, since that will be crucial to discovering whether its a Symantec false positive or not.

If we've not got anywhere by tomorrow I'll e-mail the MyBrute creators and tell em to get speaking to Symantec about it, I'm sure they'll listen after I show em a few google search links of at least 4 pages of topics with people warning others not to go on it cause they're getting this message, all seem to be Symantec users so far though so I'm hoping we're clean.

[bustin98]

LOL, that's so funny that you found this. Google works fast, huh?

I was trying to find info and read your posts. Seems most people are content to just blow it off, and personally I don't care about mybrute. I did care about linking to a potentially dangerous website though. I'm over it now, but what is sad is that there could be other false positives in the future. I'll be interested in seeing how Symantec takes this going forward.

[BlackNMild2k1]

This site would run slow & I would have issues with it telling me my flash player was out of date (which it isn't), but a reload or two and problem fixed.

and now for the real reason I cam into this thread...

Vudu, thank for Jack Cayman. The guy is a total badass with that hammer
http://jack-cayman.mybrute.com/fight/49726396

http://jack-cayman.mybrute.com/fight/49728918

Those are 2 of his 3 wins today

[vudu]

Glad he's working out for you!

[BlackNMild2k1]

I just had an idea. Someone should start the next next mafia game as Brute mafia where eveyone is required to sign up by creating a Brute.
Your Brutes name will be your characters identity, and your votes will be cast by challenging the person to a battle.
e.g. I VOTE stevey by challenging his Brute EVIL MONKEY and posting the results. The more people challenge EVIL MONKEY and WIN the more likely their VOTES will count. They can only challenge one NWR member a day (Mafia rules) & all other fights must be against random Brutes.

I haven't worked out the details, cause I'm very rusty on Mafia in general, but that would be the basis for making a Brute Mafia work.
Does sound like a good idea? Could anybody make it work?
All created Brutes would then be added into the NWR Clan when it becomes a reality.

[EasyCure]

I just had an idea. Someone should start the next next mafia game as Brute mafia where eveyone is required to sign up by creating a Brute.
Your Brutes name will be your characters identity, and your votes will be cast by challenging the person to a battle.
e.g. I VOTE stevey by challenging his Brute EVIL MONKEY and posting the results. The more people challenge EVIL MONKEY and WIN the more likely their VOTES will count. They can only challenge one NWR member a day (Mafia rules) & all other fights must be against random Brutes.

I haven't worked out the details, cause I'm very rusty on Mafia in general, but that would be the basis for making a Brute Mafia work.
Does sound like a good idea? Could anybody make it work?
All created Brutes would then be added into the NWR Clan when it becomes a reality.

arent brutes limited to fights per day? That wouldn't work if one brute gets 4 votes or more, since the cut off seems to be 3 a day (after the initial day)

[BlackNMild2k1]

A single brute can only challenge an individual brute once per day.

Everybody could challenge EVIL MONKEY once a day. won or lose.
But you could not challenge EVIL MONKEY twice in the same day hoping to beat him.

Lets say I wanted to VOTE EasyCure. I would challenge your brute.
then Kashogi wanted to VOTE EasyCure. He would challenge your brute too.
Then you want to VOTE Kashogi. SO you challenge his brute.
& so on & so on. It would work fine. you just have to post the fight as your proof of vote.
& you would want to do your random fights too, to help level up your character and get your bonuses that  could help you win more VOTE challenges.

A win & a loss could mean something towards voting, but like I said, I haven't worked out the details cause I'm very rusty on Mafia.

[vudu]

Sounds like it could be a neat idea.  However, everyone would need to create a new Brute just for the game so we would all start at level 1.

I haven't experimented enough with MyBrute to tell for sure, but it seems like some Brutes are going to become much better than others out of sheer randomness (i.e. what weapons you randomly acquire, how your character levels up, etc.).  Could this potentially ruin the game for some people depending on how their Brute turns out?  I'd just be a little worried that everyone would know so-and-so was mafia, but we couldn't vote him out because his Brute was too powerful.

[BlackNMild2k1]

i've been beaten by Brutes alot weaker than me, and I've beaten Brutes alot stronger than me.
Its all pretty random, and it would be luck of the draw. But I think it could add something new to the Mafia that is played today.
Besides, if enough people vote that day for the same person, they have pretty high chance of more wins vs loses. If they play their other 2 random fights that day and continually win, they could put themselves into a position to level up faster and get those bonuses before the next guy.

But either was I think it could be a good experiment to add to the mafia formula and see how it works out.
We could all start a new Brute under the Game Master (whoever is hosting the game) so that they could also pump up their current Brute as well with all the new pupils and leveling up exp..

[vudu]

My vote would be to just create a generic NWR Mafia Brute and then have everyone who wants to play create characters under him called NWR <user name> (so I would be NWR vudu).  It would eliminate any confusion about who's who and I'm reasonable sure none of the names will have already be taken.

[BlackNMild2k1]

but you should create NWR Mafia brute under somebody so that the pyramid continues
no reason to let all those exp points goto waste. otherwise it sounds good to me

[Stogi]

I call being the master!

[vudu]

but you should create NWR Mafia brute under somebody so that the pyramid continues

Makes sense.

I call being the master!

Yeah right.    BNM should get the right--not only did he bring MyBrute to NWR, he's the one who thought of Brute Mafia.

I thought of another neat idea--in certain cases players would have to fight the game master (using the NWR Mafia brute) to decide the outcome of actions.  I'm not quite sure how this should work.  Since all fights are public knowledge you couldn't have the mafia or roled townies fight to determine the outcome of night actions because it would give them away.  But there's gotta be something neat we could do!

[BlackNMild2k1]

Game Master creates a NWR Mafia brute & a NWR Townie brute
let those two fight each other and determine the winner that way.
Everyone can see the Mafia Brute & the Townie Brute duke it out to see if the night action was successful or not

All special character will have a NWR <Special Role> Brute to be used as their representative fighter so that it doesn't give them away.

As far as me hosting the Mafia - Brute Wars - The New World Regime I

I haven't played mafia in about 2 years and barely remember how. I also have never hosted a game before so I wouldn't even know what I was doing. But we can figure that all out later. I'm more interested in fiding a way to make this work, cause if its successful, we can re-use our NWR Brutes for a New World Regime II & III etc. etc.

[vudu]

As far as me hosting the Mafia - Brute Wars - The New World Regime I

I haven't played mafia in about 2 years and barely remember how. I also have never hosted a game before so I wouldn't even know what I was doing.

I never said you had to host (although you're more than welcome to).  I just said we should create the NWR Mafia brute under Lil Boy Blue so you get the experience points.

[BlackNMild2k1]

Oh. Yeah I like that idea.

[Stratos]

That's a feasible idea. You should throw your name in to host it.