Vray next update 2 - splotching problem on every scene

[Vizioen]

Yeah the "virus" does all sorts of things. In our case it deleted lights right at render time. Kind of hard to identify what's wrong with your render if it happens haha.

[Vizioen]

In all the years I read about the 3dsmax `virus` I`d never seen any sign of it, and then 2 scenes come in infected from 2 different clients just this month. The only thing it seemed to do was have a few garbled named objects that you couldn`t unhide or delete although it then spread that rubbish to every other file. Luckily the Security tools zapped it before it got too far. Some people have too much time on their hands to program this stuff.

I warned the office where I work about this almost a year ago about this but it fell on deaf ears. Took us a day and a half to find the culprit and clean everything once we were infected.

[^Lele^]

It's not a Virus, as such.
It's a set of borked scripts (the licensing thereof) which have a tendency to nest into odd places.
Calling it a "virus" is fearmongering from the part of AD, imho (and i have told them so in no uncertain terms too.).
Likewise, their approach (of parsing every possible controller in nodes and xrefed stuff, on file open, merge. for big scenes, that's potentially *hours* of single-core action.) is like trying to shoot down a fly with a bazooka.
I'd suggest running the cleaning scripts only on a need-to-clean basis.

And as with viruses, the very best practice against them is preemptive control over the data.
The likes of us, having to open a gazzillion scenes from anywhere, unfortunately, are likely to save more time leaving the cleaning scripts active.
But if i was a firm, i'd be happier to take the cue and clean up my assets, and tightening the process to add new assets to the library.

[Vizioen]

But if i was a firm, i'd be happier to take the cue and clean up my assets, and tightening the process to add new assets to the library.

Yeah try explaining that to my colleagues

[^Lele^]

Yeah try explaining that to my colleagues

I hope (for you!) that the technical direction there isn't a democratic process. ^^

[glorybound]

We need a superhero team to hunt these people down and publicly humiliate them.

[^Lele^]

We need a superhero team to hunt these people down and publicly humiliate them.

Well, the author was well meaning (it's originally a licensing system.).
There is no evil doer to be chased, and put to shame, (un)fortunately. ^^