Shipping exe is dedected as a virus with Avast

[Apollo Densin]

So redownloaded the game and now the exe is getting counted as a virus and being quarantined by my antivirus. Palworld is whitelisted

time to use a better antivirus that isn't a virus itself

[DaBa]

Use a good antivirus program and the problem will go away.

[Moe]

Just stick with windows defender, sheesh.

[Shiroe (cortana)]

stop using avast, one of the worst AV there is along with useless norton!

[Flint]

>using antiviruses

[✠Tommy✠]

>avast
lmao

[Raptor Jesus]

AV in 2024 thats not windows defender lol

[~ Fabulous ~]

Avast feels more like a virus from my previous experience, that ♥♥♥♥ slows down my pc in 2010.

[AlexWolf]

good carnal joke, now go troll other people

[⎛⎝Duckers McQuack⎠⎞]

Avast is ♥♥♥♥ and apparently gets too many false positives. Windows defender is all you need.

[°Dofus]

use kaspersky and be safe mate.

[Kerguelen]

Why use Avast, it's terrible. Avast has to generate fear, so you buy the paid version (which is also terrible) Uninstall and switch back to Windows Defender immediately IMHO.

[amok]

Thats a false positive. you will need to report it to Avast.

[Czaele]

Good on you for reporting it, but considering there's nobody else mentioning this, I'm blaming Avast.

Advice from a computer tech:
1. If you're on Windows 8.1 or newer (preferably 10), don't bother using an antivirus. Between the adblocker you have on your browser and Defender that's built into Windows, you're fine 99.99999% of the time, unless you're doing something obviously bad like downloading shady pron off some website called "CXJKLJSIOPFGO111 . com" and ignore all the warnings your browser gives you.
2. If your PC is super-duper important and you 100% NEED absolute protection, like you run a crypto empire out of it, or you trade stocks, or you have a bunch of kids that click on everything, or something else like that, get literally anything better than the hot garbage that is Avast, Norton and McAfee. All three are so compromised that they don't even help if there IS a virus. Heck, even Malwarebytes is better than those three, though realtime protection is a paid sub.
3. Avast itself hasn't been good for 5-10 years. The problem with a lot of smaller AV programs is that if they're successful at blocking viruses, but too small/underfunded to afford 24/7 teams that work on blocking viruses and anti-AV viruses, they get targeted and wrecked by every virus coder out there. Avast was one that got hit hard by this.

As for AV recommendations, I've got none, I haven't used an antivirus in like 10 years or so. Nowadays I'll just run a Malwarebytes scan once a year.

[Raziel]

A decade ago I used to recommend AVG for an anti-virus, but I'm with Czaele as thats only mostly useless insurance anyway. I'd look into ClamAV/FreshClam as well, if memory serves it's a windows fork of a linux antivirus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClamAV

Looking at it again, seems like FreshClam is deprecated since I used it and the core ClamAV is now windows compatible.