My antivirus detects SpaceEngineers.exe as a IDP.generic malware

[Emperor's Champion]

this started to happen like 2 days ago, now every time i close SE avast detects the .exe as a malware and delete it... its something i should concern about or its just a false positive?

[Eskidead]

It's a false positive.
I can't remember how to make avast ignore these alerts.

[Lystent]

Are you running with or without mods?.. I'm wondering if it is the devs' work that is tripping off your AV...

[Eskidead]

It's not mods. I run SE 100% mod-free and has had avast trigger this on several occasions. In the end I got so tired of it, that I switched to AVG antivirus. But it still triggered false positives on SE.

[Lystent]

Then the devs probably got a bit sloppy...

[Eskidead]

Yeah, IMO it's bad programming/coding when you make it look like virus or malware. :/

[Nihl]

dont trust in avast. once it detected in my pc Explorer.exe as a virus

[McRib]

Originally posted by Nihl:

dont trust in avast. once it detected in my pc Explorer.exe as a virus

you never know where the virus are hiding... better delet all exe files... lol

But enough jokes. Avast and Mcafee make a lot of false positive statement you can in avast go under the setting and exklude Space engineers.exe so wont deleted it anymore. Mcafee there is no way to do it and also no way to turn it off if it make false statements.

[Emperor's Champion]

Originally posted by Lystent:

Are you running with or without mods?.. I'm wondering if it is the devs' work that is tripping off your AV...

I run SE with mods, all downloaded from workshop
[edit]
now i'm thinking about a thing... in the mod list of the save, there was a mod enlightened in red with just numbers and 0 info about it, if the mod was enabled on a save i wasnt able to load the game

[Emperor's Champion]

Originally posted by Nihl:

dont trust in avast. once it detected in my pc Explorer.exe as a virus

to me its just doing its job, never found this kind of issue before, thats why i got suspicious

[filcon]

False positive. Contact avast, nothing we can do.

[Nihl]

Originally posted by McRib:

Originally posted by Nihl:

dont trust in avast. once it detected in my pc Explorer.exe as a virus

you never know where the virus are hiding... better delet all exe files... lol

But enough jokes. Avast and Mcafee make a lot of false positive statement you can in avast go under the setting and exklude Space engineers.exe so wont deleted it anymore. Mcafee there is no way to do it and also no way to turn it off if it make false statements.

Yup thats true. Avast sometines recognize its own DLLs as virus.

To be honest i use AVG free for last.... 10 years. Never got false positive, never had a problem with whitelisting. And it consume only 10mb of ram.

[Cochise]

Originally posted by Emperor's Champion:

this started to happen like 2 days ago, now every time i close SE avast detects the .exe as a malware and delete it... its something i should concern about or its just a false positive?

Format C:\

only way to be sure...

[Emperor's Champion]

no doubt in that

[Nihl]

Format C? are you joking? stuff microwave with hard drives, leave it for low power on 10 minutes, and then stuck it into box full of electromagnets.

Just to be sure. Formating never removes all data. Police proved that long time ago. issue can remain after format.

[Cochise]

Originally posted by Nihl:

Format C? are you joking? stuff microwave with hard drives, leave it for low power on 10 minutes, and then stuck it into box full of electromagnets.

Just to be sure. Formating never removes all data. Police proved that long time ago. issue can remain after format.

You're right of course.

We better nuke his house from orbit....

Just to be sure.

or you can download a program that writes 1's and 0's. I would rather nuke myself. Wipe out the whole virus colony that is infesting his house. Hell, he probably has a virus himself. He could infect us all.