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MasterZoen has PCMark 10

Jan 26, 2019 @ 8:18pm

Benchmark failed + Virus

I've been trying to get PCMark 10 to run on my machine for a while now, but it seems to be infected with a virus. Avast Anti-virus keeps detecting "IDP.Generic" in the file "ApplicationStart.au3". Avast quarantines the file, and I assume this causes the benchmark to fail.

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Originally posted by UL_Jarnis:

Please whitelist. Avast is being stupid. There is no virus in PCMark 10.

(or use a better antivirus)

Once whitelisted, do verify on Steam so the quarantined files are fixed.

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UL_Jarnis [developer] Jan 28, 2019 @ 5:52am

Please whitelist. Avast is being stupid. There is no virus in PCMark 10.

(or use a better antivirus)

Once whitelisted, do verify on Steam so the quarantined files are fixed.

MasterZoen has PCMark 10

Jan 28, 2019 @ 7:02am

Okay, I'll give it a shot.

Edit: Okay, after creating a virtual machine to make sure that nothing had managed to get into the software on my side of things I ran the benchmark with the exceptions added to Avast and there were no problems. I went ahead and forwarded the notification to Avast and then ran it the bench on my system. I can't believe I'm the first person with Avast Antivirus to have used PCMark 10, but I don't know why there wouldn't have already been a virus definition regarding the false positive.

Last edited by MasterZoen; Jan 28, 2019 @ 7:49am