Mcfaee says DCS aircraft's .dlls are viruses

[Spiderman4000]

Yep all my planes are viruses according to McAfee. F15, su 27, AV 8 harrier, mig 29.

Please advise.

Best Wishes

[-OrLoK- Слава Україн]

add them to your AV exclusion list

they're encrypted files which can set off a false positive.

[bignewy]

Originally posted by Spiderman4000:

Yep all my planes are viruses according to McAfee. F15, su 27, AV 8 harrier, mig 29.

Please advise.

Best Wishes

False positives, your AV is doing more harm than good. Making an exclusion for DCS can help, but still some AV like mcafee are over protective.

[Spiderman4000]

Originally posted by bignewy:

Originally posted by Spiderman4000:

Yep all my planes are viruses according to McAfee. F15, su 27, AV 8 harrier, mig 29.

Please advise.

Best Wishes

False positives, your AV is doing more harm than good. Making an exclusion for DCS can help, but still some AV like mcafee are over protective.

thx guys

[Spiderman4000]

Hi the problem is i cannot exclude a folder in McAfee live, so it only individual flies. But when McAfee puts them in quarantine it does not give a link or address where the files come from in DCS world. So i have no way to find them in the folders. McAfee will always delete them every time it does a scan.

[Czar]

Originally posted by Spiderman4000:

Hi the problem is i cannot exclude a folder in McAfee live, so it only individual flies. But when McAfee puts them in quarantine it does not give a link or address where the files come from in DCS world. So i have no way to find them in the folders. McAfee will always delete them every time it does a scan.

Is there any reason to keep using the malware disguised as 'anti-virus' called McAfee?

Since Windows 8 these programs has been rendered useless outside enterprise environment. The ammount of crap they induce renders them no where near beneficial to home users, besides McAfee has been well known to cause havok on PCs since early 2010s in several different areas throughout the years.

It is 2024. Don't surf in internet sewers and if you do, use a virtual machine to do so. Outside of that, windows defender is very competent on keeping you out of trouble.

-Don't click on unkown .exe.
-Don't click on dubious links.
-Get rid of paid malwares.

...and no, using McAfee doesn't make you safer. It is just a trigger happy outdated app for an increasingly network dependent and complex environment.

[Troll Norris]

To have antivirus software is always good idea. Its main purpose is to cover security holes which are not covered by OS security fixes. In old times when Windows XP was a thing (it was literally the virus magnet) the antivirus was "must have". Still due to low rootkit/bootkit protection it also would be useless. Specially in times when warez was on a daily basis. Since some time, the emphasis on the quality of software security as such has gone very high. Because of that nowday security software and its basic heuristic analysis became practically useless. Nowadays, it is much more important to have a good behavioral shield that works by monitoring the behavior of programs in real time instead of scanning files.

In nowday it is much easier to "hack the user's brain" than his computer by scams, phishing, and similar.

https://youtu.be/I7ojMtdcsCg?si=skLaZLWwRuvC2axJ

[Troll Norris]

BTW I hope that you don't feel pressure. You can always send the files for laboratory test of your security provider. As I have written, it is most probably caused by DRM (brand VMProtect https://vmpsoft.com/ )

https://vmpsoft.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=356

[½Pete]

There's no law that says you have to use mcafee on your computer
in fact, you could even uninstall if you wanted to

[cam8528]

Originally posted by Spiderman4000:

Yep all my planes are viruses according to McAfee. F15, su 27, AV 8 harrier, mig 29.

Please advise.

Best Wishes

somebody have to fly them

[Barbera]

i had the same issue, solution was to white-list the single files.
be sharp however, it happened to me that the file got completly deleted after a window update.

SOlution to that was to de-select and re-select rhe module installed via steam so that the modules got re-downloaded. hope it helps!

[Dogman]

Before starting DCS go into the mcafee app and turn off real time scanning for 15 mins, then start DCS. This has worked for me, you just have to do it everytime before launching the game.

[stburr91]

Originally posted by bignewy:

Originally posted by Spiderman4000:

Yep all my planes are viruses according to McAfee. F15, su 27, AV 8 harrier, mig 29.

Please advise.

Best Wishes

False positives, your AV is doing more harm than good. Making an exclusion for DCS can help, but still some AV like mcafee are over protective.

The AV is doing exactly what it's supposed to do, it's not doing any "harm". The problem is packing your files in an way that sets off many AV programs.

[Xupicor]

It's in the interest of AV software to look busy, to look needed, to give you a mostly false sense of security and make you think paying for it is actually money well spent.

Most AV doesn't really give you much benefit over Microsoft's Defender, they're just fancy pop up ads, really.

Now, don't go disabling every AV functionality all of a sudden, but as long as your e-hygiene is OK you really don't gain much with the annoyance McAffee brings.

Still true that ED should send files to most popular AVs for analysis before they patch the game so that this can be avoided altogether.

[Delta Dagger]

Originally posted by stburr91:

Originally posted by bignewy:

False positives, your AV is doing more harm than good. Making an exclusion for DCS can help, but still some AV like mcafee are over protective.

The AV is doing exactly what it's supposed to do, it's not doing any "harm". The problem is packing your files in an way that sets off many AV programs.

Yeah, but McAfee is bad and has been bad for a long time.

[stburr91]

Originally posted by F-102A Delta Dagger:

Originally posted by stburr91:

The AV is doing exactly what it's supposed to do, it's not doing any "harm". The problem is packing your files in an way that sets off many AV programs.

Yeah, but McAfee is bad and has been bad for a long time.

DCS is setting off many different AV programs. It's not the AV programs doing "harm" as the community manager said, the AV programs are working properly.