Overly protective malware blocker, or something else?

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  1. Ringlein

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    Hi all!

    Fresh customer here. Apparently, my malw-blocker considers the launcher a bit of a menace. Anything I need worrying about there?
     
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    Nothing to worry about. It is a false positive.


    And Welcome Ringlein!
     
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    Welcome Ringlein!
     
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    more than likely, @Sir Baralis is correct on the false positive. what does it say the infection is? are you using heuristics? the fact that it is a downloader coudl be what triggers an overly sensitive antimalware application/appliance.
     
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    Maybe it's the auto-seed feature, but yeah, what I've noticed is a lot of malware/virus blockers consider obscure MMO launchers to be viruses when they are simply not familiar with them, there are zero viruses in the launcher.
     
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    The Seal of Indie!

    Thanks for the tech-angle on the matter, and have a nice working week.
     
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    The last couple of publishes, McAfee has occasionally blocked the installer after it finishes one block, before it starts the next. I exit the client, restart it, and the download/install process continues where it was halted. I'd guess there's an executable file which gets changed every so often and the anti-virus software doesn't immediately recognise it as legitimate, or something like that. Anyway, nothing to worry about ;)
     
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    Also, if you were really worried about it, then all you'd have to do was to use STEAM to launch (if you are using STEAM already that is).
     
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