League-of-legends – Is it safe to play League of Legends when there are files detected as viruses by virustotal.com

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I'm from Vietnam and started to play League of Legends which I have downloaded from the official site here for the Vietnamese version.

Viruses were detected when I ran a virus-scan on the files via virustotal.com.

So my question is, should I run the game when the virus-scan reports viruses?

  1. FileLoader.dll
  2. launcher.maestro.dll
  3. CRiotLauncherElevateCOM.dll
  4. LolClient.exe
  5. LolClient.swf

The same virus results apply for the English version of LoL – results available here.

Best Answer

The files are only pinging as bad on one or two anti-virus programs and not on any of the more reputable ones. Anti-virus software isn't perfect and false positives happen.

It is far more likely that one anti-virus program is wrong about it being a virus than it is that almost all of them are. The files are probably safe.