False Positive on Avira AntiVirus?

[Jotoman]

I was updating the game and I got a positive on my Avira Antivirus. Anyone experienced the same?

[AutumnJelly]

I also got a threat alert for TQ_DX11.exe from AVG. I want to play the game but I'm not fond of creating exceptions

[Zyddie]

Hey guys.

We are looking into why this happens, it is a false positive.

//Zyddie

[Icecold Heart]

Same here. Got an Malware alert. Now am i not even able to finish the update. Keeps putting out a harddrive writing error. Verfification of file datas couldn't restore the exe. Guess i'll have to fully uninstall and reinstall. :/

[Jotoman]

Yep. Disk Write Error here as well. uninstall reinstall, I guess

[Nani]

Does anybody here have any solutions for continuous disk write errors popping up? I have put all three exe's that threw a false positive onto the exception list, but despite that I still see Titan Quest pausing it's download at 4.4GB, refusing to go further, even after I uninstalled and restarted the installation process several times.

[Malgardian]

Originally posted by Nani:

Does anybody here have any solutions for continuous disk write errors popping up? I have put all three exe's that threw a false positive onto the exception list, but despite that I still see Titan Quest pausing it's download at 4.4GB, refusing to go further, even after I uninstalled and restarted the installation process several times.

You might want to whitelist the whole Steam library folder then.

[Nani]

Originally posted by Malgardian:

You might want to whitelist the whole Steam library folder then.

I whitelisted both the download folder and the empty Titan Quest AV folder just in case, but I still got the disk write error, this time at 1.2 GB downloaded.

Edit: Hold on, it picked up the download again without complaint this time. Let's hope that'll continue until it's properly downloaded.

... or not, the error reared its head 100 MB later and the exe in question which keeps causing the error, despite being whitelisted, is the Editor.exe.

[Malgardian]

Originally posted by Nani:

Originally posted by Malgardian:

You might want to whitelist the whole Steam library folder then.

I whitelisted both the download folder and the empty Titan Quest AV folder just in case, but I still got the disk write error, this time at 1.2 GB downloaded.

Edit: Hold on, it picked up the download again without complaint this time. Let's hope that'll continue until it's properly downloaded.

... or not, the error reared its head 100 MB later and the exe in question which keeps causing the error, despite being whitelisted, is the Editor.exe.

Well, that's on your antivirus program then. Either hope they update their signatures to remove the false positive or disable it completely until the game is installed.

[Nani]

Originally posted by Malgardian:

Well, that's on your antivirus program then. Either hope they update their signatures to remove the false positive or disable it completely until the game is installed.

Disabling my antivirus did to the trick for the disk writing error. I then got a surprise in form of a second error, missing permissions. In case anybody else experiences this: What solved that issue for me: I had two steam game folders and I found out that Titan Quest Anniversary Edition wants to be installed in the installation path. So I finally got it installed. *gives it a shot* :)

[playit]

Originally posted by Nani:

Originally posted by Malgardian:

Well, that's on your antivirus program then. Either hope they update their signatures to remove the false positive or disable it completely until the game is installed.

Disabling my antivirus did to the trick for the disk writing error. I then got a surprise in form of a second error, missing permissions. In case anybody else experiences this: What solved that issue for me: I had two steam game folders and I found out that Titan Quest Anniversary Edition wants to be installed in the installation path. So I finally got it installed. *gives it a shot* :)

I got absolutely same problem as you. I couldn`t solve this problem by myself But You helped me solve it!! TY

[Jotoman]

I've given up installing and reinstalling Titan Quest at the moment.
I tried everything:
1. disabling AV
2. white listing Steam install directory
3. Uninstall Reinstall
4. Clear Download Cache.

I don't wanna go so far as to backup everything, uninstall steam and reinstall..

[TheCollector]

When an AV program detects a potential threat and puts the file into quarantine, putting the file on the whitelist and restoring it sometimes does not restore full access rights on the file until the system has been rebooted.
So when you have problems to continue the install, try a reboot before giving up on the game.

[ninakoru]

Originally posted by Malgardian:

You might want to whitelist the whole Steam library folder then.

Won't do that. Steam is not any sort of strongly tested and verified games center. I would do it on a per game basis.

[Malgardian]

Originally posted by ninakoru:

Originally posted by Malgardian:

You might want to whitelist the whole Steam library folder then.

Won't do that. Steam is not any sort of strongly tested and verified games center. I would do it on a per game basis.

Depends on the games you're playing. I wouldn't worry about bigger titles, but you have a point.