Avast says Paradox Launcher infected ?

[Dovahkiin]

I have played stellaris for years and for the first time today Avast blocks the launcher stating its infected with IDP.generic. anyone having problems like this before ?

[markdb92]

its called a false positive. Avast tends to have those problems.

[Dovahkiin]

great. i think avast quarantined something b/c now im getting bootstrapper error :(

[FerrusPugnum]

Norton does the same to combat mission .exe's it is a real pain.

[Dovahkiin]

so i followed instruction i found on another thread,
1. I uninstalled the new Paradox Launcher from Windows' Controlpanel.
2. Then I started Stellaris upon through Steam, it then installed the launcher again.
3. Start Steam as admin.
but now im getting an error about "saving mod load order failed.please verify launcher has access to your documents folder". how do i do that ? game was heavily modded .

[Dovahkiin]

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=2037-QEUH-3335
this fixed

[neock]

Avast is actualy one of the worst anti virus software out there. right next to norton and kasperki.
it actualy allows some of the more dangeruse and well known viruses pass and hijack your registry. id remove it asap

[Dovahkiin]

Originally posted by neock:

Avast is actualy one of the worst anti virus software out there. right next to norton and kasperki.
it actualy allows some of the more dangeruse and well known viruses pass and hijack your registry. id remove it asap

and what would you suggest ?

[★REM★]

With all the respect, Avast / AVG is terrible, get something else as AV.

[Dovahkiin]

Originally posted by ⇒⭐REM⭐⇐:

With all the respect, Avast / AVG is terrible, get something else as AV.

suggestions? what do you use ?

[Wilson]

Originally posted by geneherr:

suggestions? what do you use ?

Everybody's going to have a different suggestion for you, when it comes to AV's it's literally to each their own.

As for me i use an AVG/Malwarebytes combo because why not. Comes back from a time when AVG kept detecting something ( can't remember what it was ) but the damn thing wouldn't remove it

But i digress, all free antivirus's are questionable. I've used AVG, Malwarebytes, Avast, and a few others. But every time i come back to the combo mentioned above. Also it's worth mentioning that AVG left stellaris' launcher alone for AGE'S until i tweaked the settings on it just yesterday. Nothing's immune to false positives, and anyone who calls out a specific AV for it is biased.

[dornenfeld]

Originally posted by geneherr:

Originally posted by ⇒⭐REM⭐⇐:

With all the respect, Avast / AVG is terrible, get something else as AV.

suggestions? what do you use ?

Hi, for around 2 years now, the win10 defender is superior. In addition I occaisonally run Malwarebytes (but it never found anything). I also recommend uBlock Origin browser extension. And a functional brain doesnt hurt.

[★REM★]

Originally posted by geneherr:

Originally posted by ⇒⭐REM⭐⇐:

With all the respect, Avast / AVG is terrible, get something else as AV.

suggestions? what do you use ?

I personally use ESET, but as another user said above, everyone will give you a different opinion.

What i can tell is that Avast / AVG is well known to give some troubles with gaming in general.

Nowdays windows defender itself is very good, so many users will also suggest you to use no AV at all.

[Wilson]

Originally posted by ⇒⭐REM⭐⇐:

What i can tell is that Avast / AVG is well known to give some troubles with gaming in general.

With that said i kind've forgot to suggest that if you do go with AVG you just need to keep the real time protection sensitivity to low to avoid the false positives. At least in my case i never had them until i upped it. While scanning on the other hand you can crank the settings all the way up and it'll leave everything legit alone.

Originally posted by ⇒⭐REM⭐⇐:

so many users will also suggest you to use no AV at all.

People who haven't realized we aren't on 1.3Ghz single core cpu's anymore. The whole argument for going it alone has always been performance. Something that i, even with two AV's, haven't experienced in the form of a single lost frame.

I realize you aren't suggesting it, but imagine being one misclick away from getting your ass ransomwared or your passwords yoinked because you skimped out on an insignificant and free AV [/quote]

[★REM★]

Originally posted by Wilson:

Originally posted by ⇒⭐REM⭐⇐:

What i can tell is that Avast / AVG is well known to give some troubles with gaming in general.

With that said i kind've forgot to suggest that if you do go with AVG you just need to keep the real time protection sensitivity to low to avoid the false positives. At least in my case i never had them until i upped it. While scanning on the other hand you can crank the settings all the way up and it'll leave everything legit alone.

Originally posted by ⇒⭐REM⭐⇐:

so many users will also suggest you to use no AV at all.

People who haven't realized we aren't on 1.3Ghz single core cpu's anymore. The whole argument for going it alone has always been performance. Something that i, even with two AV's, haven't experienced in the form of a single lost frame.

I realize you aren't suggesting it, but imagine being one misclick away from getting your ass ransomwared or your passwords yoinked because you skimped out on an insignificant and free AV :griefer:

[/quote]

Naa i'm not going without, that's why i use ESET. But i have many friends just using Defender and they are quite happy with that. Now that you bringing up the issue, one of them actually got his Origin account hacked

[Cicilka]

It happened to me some days ago too, I never had this problem with avast saying that the launcher is infected before.