false positive antivirus -Latest update April 10 causing virus warnings and seems stuck

[BoneDust]

Too many virus warnings.  Had to shut anti-virus down but can't tell if it is updating.  I see the waiting for operation to complete, but no status window.

[BIGNEWY]

Hi, 

most likely false positives, no issues reported internally by testers. 

please let us know what security you are using? 

and you may want to submit it to your provider 

thank you 

[BoneDust]

I'm using ESET and have been years without any issues updating DCS.  Unfortunately, I am now doing a complete reinstall.  Let the frustration begin haha.

 

cheers

[BIGNEWY]

let me know how you get on. 

thank you 

[BoneDust]

Its all good.  I'll get it up and running again.

[Hiob]

You should really check a suspect file with virustotal.com before taking such drastic measures. Most of the time a false positive is most likely (in this scenario).

[Kurnass1977]

Same problem here,

I don't want reinstall all and unable to, I'm a real noob at technoloy of any sort with the PC, so please help!!!!!!!

Speak me like a 3 YO child

[Kirito]

same here. This time it's a really long list

Added following exception to the realtime-scanner

[Kurnass1977]

6 minuti fa, Kirito ha scritto:

same here. This time it's a really long list

Added following exception to the realtime-scanner

 

 

And work?

 These are the message received and the LOG file 

autoupdate_log.txt

Edited April 10 by Kurnass1977

[Kirito]

No, sorry it didn't. Now I've added a exceprtion for each single file. You can do this by right-clicking on each entry in the log and then click "create Exception"

This time the update was successful

[Kurnass1977]

If I click "Later" on the Update window when start the game , these windows open followed by another stating to reinstall the program

Edited April 10 by Kurnass1977

[Rudel_chw]

15 minutes ago, Kirito said:

Now I've added a exceprtion for each single file.

 

On my case it was simpler to add an exception for the whole DCS program folder, never had one of these false positives again. 

[nitro9]

Same here ESET AV quarantined these files after the latest update:

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[Kirito]

vor 12 Minuten schrieb Rudel_chw:

 

On my case it was simpler to add an exception for the whole DCS program folder, never had one of these false positives again. 

This was also my first attempt. Didn't work. Maybe my definition of the exception was not correct.

Edited April 10 by Kirito

[BIGNEWY]

please if in doubt submit the files to your provider so they can resolve the false positive. 

thanks

[BoneDust]

I got it sorted.  Up and and running again.

cheers

[Rudel_chw]

8 minutes ago, Kirito said:

This was also my first attempt. Didn't work. Maybe my definition of the exception was not correct.

 

On my AV (MS Defender) the exclusion is defined like this:

 

 

[Kurnass1977]

Ok guys, I resolved the issue thanks to this Italian site, you need to translate but worked perfectly!!!!

[Kirito]

vor 3 Minuten schrieb Rudel_chw:

 

On my AV (MS Defender) the exclusion is defined like this:

 

 

Muchas Gracias.

At the moment i'm fine.

00172.941 STATUS: Cleaning up...
00173.292 STATUS: Successfully updated to 2.9.4.53549
00176.290 === Log closed.

 

[Maolain]

Attempting to download newest version of DCS, I received this message from my antivirus software:

 

As a result, the download doesn’t continue, and I’m locked out of the game. Any thoughts on how to resolve?

[Hiob]

No quarantine, immediately deleted? Wow, I would ditch this AV in no time. Pretty intrusive considering, that false positives (like in this case) are not that uncommon.

You can only repair/re-install DCS and deactivate Eset for the time being and then set an exception for all DCS folders.

[silverdevil]

2 hours ago, Maolain said:

Attempting to download newest version of DCS, I received this message from my antivirus software

as @Rudel_chw mentioned, add the DCS folders to the exceptions in ESET. there are a few folders to add to exceptions detailed in this YT video.

this will also make the game load faster.

[jaylw314]

FWIW in ESET, I needed to make an exclusion for both the DCS World folder and the bin-mt folder.  IOTW, folder exclusions don't seem to apply to their subfolders, moronically enough.

[Kurnass1977]

11 ore fa, Maolain ha scritto:

Attempting to download newest version of DCS, I received this message from my antivirus software:

 

As a result, the download doesn’t continue, and I’m locked out of the game. Any thoughts on how to resolve?

 

 

I solved this way:

open ESET interface and follow the pics order, click ok and run again the udate

 

Edited April 11 by Kurnass1977

[trois-pas]

Got the same issue a few month back with one of Razbam Mig-19 dll.

Got also around 15 dll quarantine by Nod32. Virustotal analysis on one of the DLL has it tagged as malware by 3 AV https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/431961c63bb6dbf1567cb0cc0b618a11548cbfd6e4a4f115f02e0bb35633b11e/detection. Most likely false positive.

Since i'm not found of permanent exclusion, i've just restore and exclude from scanning the specific file involved (see screenshot attached)

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Instalation went well after that.

I've just submit those file to eset for analysis (and classification as false positive). pretty sure things will get back to normal in a few days as it did for the mig 19 dll.