Okay, so I started playing FeralHeart close to around the time it came out (not sure exactly how close, but it's been a while). The last laptop I had FeralHeart installed on was my Dell, which was a rebuild, I'm not sure on all the technical things that go with that. Well, we ended up having to get rid of my laptop, it contracted viruses and pretty soon the battery went bad, and after that my mom could not get windows re-installed onto the lap top (she went to college for computers so she knew how to do it). My mom said it was because of this game, and I was under the impression that FeralHeart contained no viruses.
So, I haven't been on FeralHeart in over a year, and I miss it.
For Christmas, I got a HP laptop, and it's brand new, not a rebuild or anything. I will be using this laptop for things in my biology class and other classes, but I want to re-download FeralHeart. My grandpa said we'd try it after he downloads some kind of anti-virus software on the laptop, and said that if there is anything at all wrong in the game, viruses and whatnot, that the program would catch it and I wou;d not be able to download the game.
So what I'm asking is, is there any way that someone could have contracted a virus from the download of FeralHeart. Maybe not from the game, but maybe something extra that come with it? I've heard about issues with the Bing toolbar that comes with the download, and to not allow the laptop to install that, but is there anything else? I really can't afford to have another broken laptop. Thank you, to whoever helps.