Good afternoon, dear administration of the forum. I have an extremely unpleasant situation. After installing the file: LCPD First Response 1.1 Installer No Ads.exe from the official website of LCPDFR, on which I am now filling out a complaint, I tried to open the file, on which my antivirus complains that: PUABundler:Win32/CandyOpen is dangerous and it is strongly discouraged to run this file, from which there is a question, is the file dangerous: LCPD First Response 1.1 Installer No Ads.exe and can it be run at all? Thank you.

Edited August 10, 2025Aug 10 by JohnBenovich
Editorial reason: To make my statement more clear.

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10 hours ago, notgrave1ardy said:

That is a dangerous file, make sure to go to the real website. Make sure to scrolldown to the "Download this file" and pick your desired option. You're anti virus could say its a virus because 1, you got that specific one from a different site as there is no LSPDFR called "no ads.exe". 2, I have no idea what candyopen is, that is most likely a virus. LSPDFR can be deemed a virus because of the contents in it, like the launcher and stuff. LSPDFR is safe if you get it from the actual site.

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They are trying to download LCPDFR, not LSPDFR.

@JohnBenovich While I sadly cannot guide you on how to install LCPDFR to your GTA IV, I can almost guarantee that the archives uploaded there are not malicious in any way.

I downloaded the file to my PC, and it's only telling me there is a "potentially unwanted app", not as you described, a high-risk, dangerous file.

Feel free to compile it from source instead.

https://github.com/LMSDev/lcpdfr_public

 

As a bit of an explainer, LCPDFR (GTA IV) used to have OpenCandy for the setup, which was something that would offer you other software during the install and an experiment into funding continued development in our earlier days.
We used to run it with decent defaults, e.g. it would offer but you'd have to agree. Other software ran it with terrible defaults, e.g. it would automatically install stuff or change buttons to make you agree and opencandy ended up blacklisted by AV software.
Opencandy ultimately was unprofitable as a business and they died around 2016. The installers were ultimately built from the same codebase, so the no ads one included the opencandy code, but did not execute it. The fact it is still there (but does nothing) is enough to annoy antivirus software.
 

LCPDFR is open source now, so if you don't trust us, you can just build it yourself. Additionally, the manual installation since it is not an interactive setup does not include this (but LCPDFR itself annoys AV software for other reasons - hooking and memory manipulation) and there is also no installer for the legacy edition.

What can I do with the GitHub link? Can I just copy and paste all the files into the game folder, or do I need to do something else? Do I need to change the game version? Thanks.

1 hour ago, JohnBenovich said:

What can I do with the GitHub link? Can I just copy and paste all the files into the game folder, or do I need to do something else? Do I need to change the game version? Thanks.

It's the source code, you'd have to compile it - which is outside the scope of support we'd offer on the forum, but an option to explore if you don't trust our distribution.

If you don't know what to do with it, you're probably better with the manual installation package on the website.

OK, Thanks.