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Failboat

Apr 20 @ 11:15pm

Avast antivirus

Quarantined LOTF2-Win64-Shipping.exe as a threat IDP.generic

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Lemiru

Apr 21 @ 8:39am

My advice would be to not use Avast, it's quite ♥♥♥♥ as far as antivirus software goes

seasider66 Apr 21 @ 8:53am

JUST FIX YOUR GAME Devs

IHaveNoMercy Apr 21 @ 9:08am

Avast is the window licker of anti-virus programs.

Starkiller has Lords of the Fallen

Apr 21 @ 9:11am

Me too
But Norton also shows it.

Last edited by Starkiller; Apr 21 @ 9:12am

IHaveNoMercy Apr 21 @ 9:14am

Unless windows Defender or Malwarebytes reports this, false positives players.you can always upload it to an online sandbox if you want to be sure. Just search hybrid analysis and see what that says. Bear in mind, they are opem-sourced community reports.

Failboat

Apr 21 @ 9:35am

Sorry dude, but I have played over a 1000 indie games and freeware games with this antivirus and this would be the first false positive I have ever encountered. I'm not going to trust you over my antivirus.

Backstabber 2008 Homosapien Karl has Lords of the Fallen

Apr 21 @ 9:47am

Originally posted by Starkiller:
Me too
But Norton also shows it.

Dude, don't use Norton it's 2025.

PTKDWA

Apr 21 @ 10:15am

Originally posted by Failboat:
Quarantined LOTF2-Win64-Shipping.exe as a threat IDP.generic

Avast is a bloat and a spyware. I'm suprised that you are using this. Recently they had to pay a fine for selling user data without consent.

Use Bitdefender or ESET. AdwCleaner for occasional cleanup. Tbh Windows Defender is enough if you watch out for the shady links, sites or executables.

Avast, Kaspersky etc. are treated as spyware and a threat.

Last edited by PTKDWA; Apr 21 @ 10:18am

Failboat

Apr 21 @ 1:21pm

I can deal with Avast's BS as long as their behavior analysis works. I'd admit them selling website tracking data doesn't paint exactly a trustworthy image, but i'd rather trust them than Microsoft after they repeatedly enabled automatic updates and installed them remotely when I had already turned them off. Even putting my personal experience aside, Microsoft has done far worse multiple times.

IHaveNoMercy Apr 22 @ 2:43am

Originally posted by Failboat:
Sorry dude, but I have played over a 1000 indie games and freeware games with this antivirus and this would be the first false positive I have ever encountered. I'm not going to trust you over my antivirus.

Honestly that is valid. I used to use Trend Micro Security subscriptions. My father spent alot of money on yearly subscriptions for our home PCs back in the day. I have spent the last decade studying a bachelors and Masters degree in cyber security so I have been exposed to and working with alot of anti-virus test environments. But I am a stranger on the internet, so you dont have to take my word for it. Windows Defender has leaked a few things for me too, as I have also acquired games of the such too, but adwcleaner, malwarebytes and uploading the Hybrid Analysis have always caught it for me. If I needed to escalate to something more serious I used Bitdefender, then removed it afterwards.
My point was, I scanned the file from multiple test beds, Avast is bloatware. and their rainbow tables are known to be detecting false-positives because they are filled with false-positive tags so that you will upgrade. And yes, they actively send your data, Malwarebytes will show you that with the free premium trial, as outbound data. If you care about whats on your PC, I just like to tell people don't use Norton and Avast.
Microsoft Defender comes with the PC, so I just recommend users to have that and that only. not to rely on bloatware., if you want to go further, that's what Linus is for.

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