Great, now it is a virus ..

[NoCtrl_84]

When i bought this game, the perfomace was a disaster so i uninstalled distutterd 2 from my computer. After months i thougth: let's try Dishonored 2 again. Maby there are some great fixes but my virusscanner gives now a positive

[B✪✪tsy]

Let me guess, a free virus scanner.

[Zekiran]

Originally posted by B00tsy:

Let me guess, a free virus scanner.

Actually no, most virus and firewalls throw false positives from Steam games *literally every day*. Almost all games may show up because they alter files on the hard drive.

Make sure that you've completely whitelisted the game's exe.

.... that said: bethesda's new processes may be crap anyway, already proven to be entirely insecure as far as their accounts for Fallout 76 have shown. I hesitate to enter ANY information with their system.

[B✪✪tsy]

Originally posted by Zekiran:

Originally posted by B00tsy:

Let me guess, a free virus scanner.

Actually no, most virus and firewalls throw false positives from Steam games *literally every day*. Almost all games may show up because they alter files on the hard drive.

Make sure that you've completely whitelisted the game's exe.

.... that said: bethesda's new processes may be crap anyway, already proven to be entirely insecure as far as their accounts for Fallout 76 have shown. I hesitate to enter ANY information with their system.

No good security suites don't give you false positives all the time and in cases of games on Steam it is very rare if it happens. Anti cheat software can sometimes be a cause of false positives, but even that is fairly rare.

[Zekiran]

Avast is almost always the one in question. you clearly don't read up on the Steam "help" forum, do you :) "oh noes this is a virus!" so many threads, always false positives.

I mean, *I personally* have never experienced this, but then *I personally* don't USE one.

[NoCtrl_84]

Originally posted by B00tsy:

Let me guess, a free virus scanner.

Nope, not free

[NoCtrl_84]

Originally posted by Zekiran:

Avast is almost always the one in question. you clearly don't read up on the Steam "help" forum, do you :) "oh noes this is a virus!" so many threads, always false positives.

I mean, *I personally* have never experienced this, but then *I personally* don't USE one.

I NEVER had this before, i use F secure virus scanner, and yes i've read the help forum, and i am aware it's most likely a false positive. It's just the irony. They keep updating the game, but for me it doesn't get any better. that said: I strongly recommend you, and anyone else, to use a virus scanner.

[Zekiran]

Eh, since I try to avoid downloading from sketchy sites, and don't download things at random, it's never been a problem for me. The very few times I HAVE had any issues, they were 100% me clicking on something i KNEW would be bad lol. Safe browsing = safe computer, mostly.

That's why i am very hesitant to add my info to bethesda's site - their site is KNOWN, like, within the last 2 weeks, to be so stupidly insecure that I'd worry about it from them and not from a place that already has my info like Steam already does.

given that it's bethesda, I'm gonna wait for a while to hope that the whole messy login thing and any security issues on their end settle, before I even click onto Dishonored again. which kinda sucks.

[Node]

People calling this game a virus is the funniest thing I have heard all year.
ur anticheat is most likely detecting the file "stp-dh2.exe" to be a virus, but it's not.
Its getting flagged cause that file alters the dh2 files on your hard drive, which all anti virues detect as "no no bad bad".

[Yandy]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.