Why do my virusscanner suddenly block the game .exe file when I try to find an online party?

[Hanalyd]

Never ever had this before and suddenly my virusscanner kicks in when the game is trying to load a list of servers.
Or is there a server/client with malicious software that causes this?

[Wolfgang]

No, that is more than likely a false positive. Happens.

[Hanalyd]

Originally posted by Wolfgang:

No, that is more than likely a false positive. Happens.

Yeah I know what false positives are but why a false positive in this case?
There shouldn't be any script that does things a virus would do just for grabbing a list of available servers/sessions.
It's just weird.

[Rivaldman]

It can be just unknown / untrusted connection, just like a smartphone not allowing to download app outside appstore / google play. You may need to allow connection for that.

[Hanalyd]

Originally posted by Rivaldman:

It can be just unknown / untrusted connection, just like a smartphone not allowing to download app outside appstore / google play. You may need to allow connection for that.

That is something totally different.
Plus if you do compare it with that then what sort of connection would it need because it used to work perfect before without the need to put the exe file in some sort of allow list.
What changed since a few months?

[Devil]

maybe there was no change by SCS, but simply detection rules were updated and changed by security providers.... some years ago java runtime was blocked from time to time as java product update downloader looked like a malicious trojan downloader.

[Aliisa]

What has changed since a few months ago is of course the version of ETS2 has changed, but so has the anti-virus pattern definition.
Since the process involves network access during convoy, some part of it must have been recognized as some kind of virus-like behavior.

Anti-virus companies check business applications for misrecognition, but not game applications, so misrecognition problems are relatively common.

[hackintoshchap]

There has been an apparent uptick in ATS being triggered by Microsoft Defender. Both of these titles use SCS World of Trucks for various game rewards and events, which cannot otherwise be done from Steam.

Assuming that the game .exe may be allowed to trigger this third party WoT may be what is getting flagged up. I don't see SCS adding a dedicated launcher to control both and I doubt that may would like an additional launcher.

I am not a software or game developer, so I could be wrong about my above thinking.

It does seem that every now and again, AV companies flag ETS 2 or ATS as a possible issue. Free services are far more likely to do this it would appear. Not everyone see's these issues as it is down to your own personal settings.