FYI if you use Avira anti-virus or are thinking about it!
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shawnasativa
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October 30, 2009, 8:00 pm |
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Joined: April 1, 2009, 12:21 am
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 FYI if you use Avira anti-virus or are thinking about it! The new version 9 still falsely reports lots of GameTap files as viruses. It will quarantine many vital files and essentially break GT and many of your downloaded games if you let it.
Yesterday it "found" a virus on Turtix.exe, and some other files including the GT updater. Two subsequent scans with two other anti-virus programs confirmed my suspicion that Avira really found nothing bad in any of my GT folders. If you're using Avira or are planning to, add your GT folders to the exception lists.
Just thought I'd mention in case anyone got confused by it. There's not a whole lot of talk about it on the forums.
Are any other AV apps known to do this as well?
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LittlestCthulhu
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October 31, 2009, 12:54 pm |
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Re: FYI if you use Avira anti-virus or are thinking about it! Great info, thanks shawnasativa. I've recently noticed the same thing with Avira.
I'm going to move this to the support section though, and sticky it for awhie.
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shawnasativa
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October 31, 2009, 4:21 pm |
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Joined: April 1, 2009, 12:21 am
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Re: FYI if you use Avira anti-virus or are thinking about it! Oops, I thought that the last time this was mentioned was 6 months ago, and figured a regular reminder was in order. As I see now, it was brought up only 2 months ago and you yourself covered it, sorry about that. It's just that I know this is gonna throw off a lot of people cause it's nice and confusing to anyone not in the know (not to mention quite scary)!
It's too bad, cause I quite like Avira among the free AVs....
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shawnasativa
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November 6, 2009, 7:45 am |
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Joined: April 1, 2009, 12:21 am
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Re: FYI if you use Avira anti-virus or are thinking about it! QUICK UPDATE: The new GT web player update also got a false positive from Avira. So in other words, no changes.
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QuixoteCoyote
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November 7, 2009, 10:39 am |
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Joined: April 1, 2009, 11:49 pm
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Re: FYI if you use Avira anti-virus or are thinking about it! As long as you tell it to ignore the game files, you shouldn't have any issues.
I use Avira and I don't.
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