Norton Antivirus just killed Forever Skies...

[The Nameless]

Some major .exe file got quarantined. I'm not sure I should, but I'm 'verifying the integrity of game files' to get it back. Has anyone else had this happen? Is there actually a dangerous file in this game, or did Norton just take a leak in my shoes?

[foolexia]

This is a false positive, but it will just remove the .exe again. Instead you want to get it removed again, go into quarantine and then restore it and add exception.

[The Nameless]

Originally posted by foolexia:

This is a false positive, but it will just remove the .exe again. Instead you want to get it removed again, go into quarantine and then restore it and add exception.

Ok, thanks... uh, now Norton won't even let it write that file to the disk and I can't get it to make an exception...

[foolexia]

Originally posted by The Nameless:

Originally posted by foolexia:

This is a false positive, but it will just remove the .exe again. Instead you want to get it removed again, go into quarantine and then restore it and add exception.

Ok, thanks

You're welcome and welcome to the hell that is false positives.

[The Nameless]

Originally posted by foolexia:

Originally posted by The Nameless:

Ok, thanks

You're welcome and welcome to the hell that is false positives.

Yeah, it's not over. I get a disk write error whenever it tries to download that file now. And I couldn't restore it from quarantine because I had uninstalled the game and tried to reinstall. I can't get it to make an exclusion...

[The Nameless]

Ok, got it. Had to turn off behavioral protection, finish the download, then make the exception when it tried to quarantine it again. Of course, now Norton is saying it won't scan that file again, so if it DOES get infected someday I'm screwed...

[foolexia]

Don't worry, it won't get infected unless you do something stupid. A good way to ensure it stays safe, should you decide to mod the game, is to get the mods only from Nexus Mods.

[The Nameless]

Originally posted by foolexia:

Don't worry, it won't get infected unless you do something stupid. A good way to ensure it stays safe, should you decide to mod the game, is to get the mods only from Nexus Mods.

Yeah, any game that doesn't have a Steam workshop, I get the mods on Nexus. If I don't just make my own mods. I don't really have much need to mod this game though.

[foolexia]

Actually, there are a couple of inventory mods that really help. There is a set of mods that expand it to 8 or 10 rows and another that allows stacks of 9999. That makes inventory management far easier to deal with.

[The Nameless]

Originally posted by foolexia:

Actually, there are a couple of inventory mods that really help. There is a set of mods that expand it to 8 or 10 rows and another that allows stacks of 9999. That makes inventory management far easier to deal with.

I'm sure it's helpful, but there are already enough things about the game that impact immersion. Like a disintegrator/tractor beam that gets all the power it needs from seven pumps of the hand, when in the real world I have to spend hours turning a crank to get five minutes of use out of a little LED flashlight, for example. If I was going to get a mod, it would be to make charging the hand extractor take a lot longer.

Of course then I'd find myself eating dooky against the scrapwings, which is probably why they made it the way they did. lol

[foolexia]

Originally posted by The Nameless:

Originally posted by foolexia:

Actually, there are a couple of inventory mods that really help. There is a set of mods that expand it to 8 or 10 rows and another that allows stacks of 9999. That makes inventory management far easier to deal with.

I'm sure it's helpful, but there are already enough things about the game that impact immersion. Like a disintegrator/tractor beam that gets all the power it needs from seven pumps of the hand, when in the real world I have to spend hours turning a crank to get five minutes of use out of a little LED flashlight, for example. If I was going to get a mod, it would be to make charging the hand extractor take a lot longer.

Of course then I'd find myself eating dooky against the scrapwings, which is probably why they made it the way they did. lol

I say it's possible to have that because of futuristic technology made out of desperation.

[Malidictus]

Norton Antivirus is still a thing? That's like hearing someone still using AoL.

[foolexia]

Originally posted by Malidictus:

Norton Antivirus is still a thing? That's like hearing someone still using AoL.

My current computer came with it, though I replaced it with Avast.

[Malidictus]

Originally posted by foolexia:

My current computer came with it, though I replaced it with Avast.

That's arguably worse :) If your issue is false positives, then you got "False Positive: The Antivirus". Hope it works out OK, though.

[foolexia]

Originally posted by Malidictus:

Originally posted by foolexia:

My current computer came with it, though I replaced it with Avast.

That's arguably worse :) If your issue is false positives, then you got "False Positive: The Antivirus". Hope it works out OK, though.

I'm used to it now, so I just make exceptions every time.

[The Nameless]

Originally posted by foolexia:

Originally posted by The Nameless:

I'm sure it's helpful, but there are already enough things about the game that impact immersion. Like a disintegrator/tractor beam that gets all the power it needs from seven pumps of the hand, when in the real world I have to spend hours turning a crank to get five minutes of use out of a little LED flashlight, for example. If I was going to get a mod, it would be to make charging the hand extractor take a lot longer.

Of course then I'd find myself eating dooky against the scrapwings, which is probably why they made it the way they did. lol

I say it's possible to have that because of futuristic technology made out of desperation.

It looks awful clean for something born of desperation. I should also note that while desperation can do some impressive things, they're more of a 'MacGuyver paperclip-slingshot' kind of impressive, not a 'multiply the energy equivalent of a bike pump by ten to the seventh or eighth' kind of impressive. It also distinctly lacks the tendency to blow up in your face. You can't call it desperation tech if it doesn't randomly blow up on you.