HELP ME!!! .EXE FILE DISAPPEARS!!!

[KiwiDaHuman]

Every time I try to launch Sonic Mania, it loads as far as the SEGA intro thing. After that, the game crashed; when I try to launch it again, I get a message saying that the .exe file is missing. And sure enough, I dig through my files, and it really is gone. I start it up a third time, and it says the game's updating. Then the game launches, and crashes all over again with the same freaking problem. I even tried launching it from File Explorer, AND running it as an administrative program, and still nothing. WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING?!? PLEASE HELP!!!

[Miraglyth]

Your antivirus is playing it safe with the anti-tamper measure added to Mania and either deleting or quarantining it.

Redownload the .exe by using the Steam verify cache feature, then tell your antivirus to whitelist / exclude it. How you do this depends on the antivirus you're using.

[KiwiDaHuman]

Originally posted by Miraglyth:

Your antivirus is playing it safe with the anti-tamper measure added to Mania and either deleting or quarantining it.

Redownload the .exe by using the Steam verify cache feature, then tell your antivirus to whitelist / exclude it. How you do this depends on the antivirus you're using.

Awesome! It took a while to get it done, but I got it done. Thanks for the tip, Miraglyth!

[Crashed]

Originally posted by KickAss Kiewiet:

Originally posted by Miraglyth:

Your antivirus is playing it safe with the anti-tamper measure added to Mania and either deleting or quarantining it.

Redownload the .exe by using the Steam verify cache feature, then tell your antivirus to whitelist / exclude it. How you do this depends on the antivirus you're using.

Awesome! It took a while to get it done, but I got it done. Thanks for the tip, Miraglyth!

You may also want to report it to your antivirus vendor as a false positive.

[KiwiDaHuman]

Originally posted by __:

Originally posted by KickAss Kiewiet:

Awesome! It took a while to get it done, but I got it done. Thanks for the tip, Miraglyth!

You may also want to report it to your antivirus vendor as a false positive.

Will do d(^U^)b

[Alexander]

Denuvo strikes again!

[вʟасқһзаʀт♠]

Originally posted by Alexander:

Denuvo strikes again!

Or just third-party antivirus software that pretty much thinks everything is a virus.

[KiwiDaHuman]

Originally posted by vendetta608:

Originally posted by Alexander:

Denuvo strikes again!

Or just third-party antivirus software that pretty much thinks everything is a virus.

That was my issue.

[Alexander]

Originally posted by vendetta608:

Originally posted by Alexander:

Denuvo strikes again!

Or just third-party antivirus software that pretty much thinks everything is a virus.

Denuvo is a PUP.
Unwanted by most people.
The antivirus is doing it's job.
Protecting the consumer from bad software that the end user doesn't want and never intententionally installed.
It's not the antiviruses fault that some game companies don't give a single ♥♥♥♥ about their customers/business.

This Sonic Mania fiasco is a great reminder as to why Sega is a destroyed shamble of a company. Bad decision center aka SEGA. At this point, if Sega fails completely, I wouldn't care. There was a time when I wanted Sega to come back(before Sonic Mania,) that time is over.

[Crashed]

Originally posted by Alexander:

Denuvo strikes again!

This kind of antivirus will flag just about anything it doesn't understand. If you want to know what can trip up antiviruses, run Process Explorer and set up the purple highlighting for "packed" processes. If it is purple, consider it to have a risk of false positives.

[Crashed]

Originally posted by Alexander:

Denuvo is a PUP.
Unwanted by most people.
The antivirus is doing it's job.

Completely untrue. The antivirus is not detecting PUP, it is detecting a heuristic detection because the code obfuscation looks similar to obfuscation sometimes used by malware to evade antivirus.

You don't even own the game, it is probably best to limit your participation in this forum.

Short of removing the DRM (their contract is probably still active) Sega should consider using Authenticode, which may both make the antivirus a little more forgiving of obfuscated code and perhaps allow it to build a reputation based on the Authenticode publisher and not just the unique hash of a specific product version.
Of course my thread suggesting this (along with filling out the version info Win32 resource) got buried quickly.

[вʟасқһзаʀт♠]

I just find it funny how anyone even feels the need to use third-party antivirus programs anymore, Windows Defender is more than enough nowadays and that has no problems with Denuvo (probably already on the whitelist.) Also how the anti-Denuvo virgins always somehow make any discussion about Denuvo reguardless of the subject matter.

[Alexander]

Originally posted by Alexander:

Denuvo strikes again!

End of thread.
Denuvo caused the OP's issue.
I pointed it out, losers try to argue nothings with me.

DENUVO STRIKES AGAIN!!!

[Yskar]

OP, change your antivirus to Nod32, Kapersky free or Panda Free.

Originally posted by Alexander:

This Sonic Mania fiasco is a great reminder as to why Sega is a destroyed shamble of a company. Bad decision center aka SEGA. At this point, if Sega fails completely, I wouldn't care. There was a time when I wanted Sega to come back(before Sonic Mania,) that time is over.

Agree

[Kaldaien]

Originally posted by Alexander:

Originally posted by Alexander:

Denuvo strikes again!

End of thread.
Denuvo caused the OP's issue.
I pointed it out, losers try to argue nothings with me.

DENUVO STRIKES AGAIN!!!

Stupid anti-virus strikes again, actually. It'll quarantine basically anything that uses packed executables. Now if it weren't stupid anti-virus, it would inform the end-user what it just did. But instead, it decides that the thing it thinks is a virus wasn't malicious enough, and it sabotages the user.

But by definition, all anti-virus is stupid because it solves a problem that does not exist and instead creates all sorts of fun new ones. Even John McAfee feels this way and despises the product that bears his name.

[KiwiDaHuman]

Originally posted by Kaldaien:

Originally posted by Alexander:

End of thread.
Denuvo caused the OP's issue.
I pointed it out, losers try to argue nothings with me.

DENUVO STRIKES AGAIN!!!

Stupid anti-virus strikes again, actually. It'll quarantine basically anything that uses packed executables. Now if it weren't stupid anti-virus, it would inform the end-user what it just did. But instead, it decides that the thing it thinks is a virus wasn't malicious enough, and it sabotages the user.

But by definition, all anti-virus is stupid because it solves a problem that does not exist and instead creates all sorts of fun new ones. Even John McAfee feels this way and despises the product that bears his name.

THANK you!