Malwarebytes change - DCS wouldn't start

[GunnerFlyboy]

I encountered a strange issue. One day, I was flying DCS without issue, and the next day, the sim wouldn't start. I'm sharing this to let people know a solution since there has been a change in my Malware protection capabilities. First, to describe the issue, the DCS.exe would be present in the task manager, and you could see it start loading memory. The memory used/loaded was about 106-8.2 MB... When DCS didn't show any CPU activity, I would kill the process and start again. Through the process of elimination, I found that Malwarebytes had an update between when it worked and when it didn't, no splash screen, nothing. The only way to figure out that there was a problem was to watch the boot sequence of DCS in the task manager. The specific setting had to do with Settings -> Protection -> Exploit protection (and the sub item "Block potentially malicious email attachments"). I turned off the Exploit protection in Real-Time Protection. There is no log to attach, as there was almost no log. It got to the login tasks, and that is where it died. I hope this helps someone. 

[silverdevil]

7 hours ago, GunnerFlyboy said:

I encountered a strange issue. One day, I was flying DCS without issue, and the next day, the sim wouldn't start. I'm sharing this to let people know a solution since there has been a change in my Malware protection capabilities. First, to describe the issue, the DCS.exe would be present in the task manager, and you could see it start loading memory. The memory used/loaded was about 106-8.2 MB... When DCS didn't show any CPU activity, I would kill the process and start again. Through the process of elimination, I found that Malwarebytes had an update between when it worked and when it didn't, no splash screen, nothing. The only way to figure out that there was a problem was to watch the boot sequence of DCS in the task manager. The specific setting had to do with Settings -> Protection -> Exploit protection (and the sub item "Block potentially malicious email attachments"). I turned off the Exploit protection in Real-Time Protection. There is no log to attach, as there was almost no log. It got to the login tasks, and that is where it died. I hope this helps someone. 

hello

pretty much every AV solutions will want block DCS files. especially after patches before the DCS files make into the safe category. the idea is add exceptions to not scan the DCS folders. do this only if you are comfortable with it.

there are two camps fighting it out about this. some say do not and you should not have to add exceptions. and another says do it, why not trust DCS?

AV has to ride a thin rail to be either too stringent or too weak.