Anti virus ? false positive

[_RAAF_Smouch]

Hi,

 

I have just installed dcs world and updated to 1.2.10.30996 and tonight when I tried to launch the game Avast antivirus move the BIN/pgf.dll to the virus chest and now I'm unable to launch the game to try and repair it.

 

Does anyone have any ideas of replacing the pgf.dll file?

 

~S~

Smouch

[SkateZilla]

Goto your AV Software goto the Vault and release it,

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I got the exact same thing with Avast

[NRG-Vampire]

I got the exact same thing with Avast

 

avast is wrong many times

guys, it's time to change your av software

[EtherealN]

I am so tempted to say something about Avast...

 

Anyway, false positive. Again. Avast does this every two-three updates or so.

[SkateZilla]

Last Virus Scan I ran, I had 25 hits on "Potentially Unwanted Programs"

10 Being 3DS Plugins, 5 Being Photoshop Scripts, and the rest being random lil programs for Flight and Racing Sims. (and some DLLs for DCS and iRacing).

 

Virus Scanners/Anti-<whatever> Software is set to redonkulously stupid levels to make sure the internet impaired feel protected.

 

I don't run anything in regards to real time protection, Services for everything are set to manual, I start them run a scan, review, and turn it all off again.

Those Services use Memory and CPU Cycles to scan every file that is accessed in real-time.

 

RTP also scans files as you install applications and updates, if it "Thinks" one is a PUP/Virus, it will vault it and screw up your application.

 

If you follow good internet practices, you wont need RTP; 99% of Virus/Malware/Junk is installed by the user.

Edited August 8, 2014 by SkateZilla

[BRooDJeRo]

And sometimes it is actually spyware... Not even to mention the positive falses... :music_whistling:

Edited August 8, 2014 by BRooDJeRo

[IIIAVIII]

https://www.virustotal.com/ru/file/092a1c9222eaa66510c75694847d93d8a7bf50fb60e1a11ee92320df2327bf3c/analysis/

[_RAAF_Smouch]

I found the virus chest and told the av program to disregard this file and the game loads again.

 

Thanks all for the replies :thumbup:

 

~S~

 

Smouch

[BitMaster]

I never liked the strategy of AV Designers and their marketing....it's like selling a life insurance mandatory to a house loan and car finance.

 

Make money with the fear of others.

 

Deinstall Avast... and take any good free-2-use one every other week to scan your PC...and deinstall after usage.

 

There are so many good solutions out there, including SARDU USB-Boot stick, you can load a dozen scanners on it and scan your PC offline, while it's booted a ded. Linux and the scanner only,

a far better approach to find bad stuff anyways.

 

I personally run Mac and don't use any of the we-protect-you lies. Know what you click and you are safer than with any AV product.

[Soulres]

AVG Free + MalawareBytes + CCleaner. Computer Equivlent of Food,Oxygen and Water.

[SkateZilla]

AVG Free + MalawareBytes + CCleaner. Computer Equivlent of Food,Oxygen and Water.

 

Decent Firewall, Popup Blocker/Browsing Habits and Security/Cookie Settings can eliminate the need for all 3 of those :p