Antivirus Issues

[★ Th0rn ★]

I'm unsure why, perhaps it was a new update or something for Ravenfield, but as I was playing stellaris, out of nowhere, haven't played the game for a good month or so.
My antivirus pops up giving me a warning about a sub-file connected to Ravenfield specifically, acting as a Trojan.
Anyone else had this sudden inexplicable occurance? Or is it just my antivirus being a little too strict?

I was on the beta branch of Ravenfield if that matters at all.

[CeSium]

Lemme take a bet, you use McAfee or whatever it's called?

[Viotech3]

Hm, That's interesting. If possible, could you post screenshots in our Discord's Help/Feedback-Bugs channel? If not, I dunno what it is. There's a chance it's just acting up as new files were added and few users had them, but I wouldn't know exactly unless I knew the name of the file.

[Cal Vin]

Same or similar deal. Wasn't using it at the time. It was likely a Steam check-in when I booted up in which Comodo scanned traffic; there is no scheduled scan for right now. I played yesterday and daily since the build 2 update. That'd be a long time for the AV to not notice a file acting like a virus. Any reason for concern? http://imgur.com/a/eq8wQ

[★ Th0rn ★]

I think this is a Comodo issue, because I also run Comodo and that's the exact same result I got.
I don't think its a serious issue, just a false positive, comodo seems to do that with a bunch of steam games. Just deselect 'Auto-containment' and unblock it and it should be fine.

[Cal Vin]

I figured as much. Wouldn't seem likely to be a third party malicious thing. Cheers!

[Pititan]

Originally posted by Th0rn The Marked:

I think this is a Comodo issue, because I also run Comodo and that's the exact same result I got.
I don't think its a serious issue, just a false positive, comodo seems to do that with a bunch of steam games. Just deselect 'Auto-containment' and unblock it and it should be fine.

You should watch out. When your antivirus blocks a file, you should pay attention to it, and specially now that after the latest update, some guy got a Trojan warning from his antivirus (hopefully it was just a warning and not a real threat) . Antivirus isn't usually wrong.

[★ Th0rn ★]

Pretty often they are though, of course you should pay attention, but a lot of anti-viruses, Comodo and Avast especially, give false positives with Steam and steam related games.

[CeSium]

Originally posted by pititan:

Originally posted by Th0rn The Marked:

I think this is a Comodo issue, because I also run Comodo and that's the exact same result I got.
I don't think its a serious issue, just a false positive, comodo seems to do that with a bunch of steam games. Just deselect 'Auto-containment' and unblock it and it should be fine.

You should watch out. When your antivirus blocks a file, you should pay attention to it, and specially now that after the latest update, some guy got a Trojan warning from his antivirus (hopefully it was just a warning and not a real threat) . Antivirus isn't usually wrong.

Depends on said anti-virus. If you use McAfee, or AVG, expect many false-positives. If it says a steam game has a virus, it most likely does not. In fact, just remove McAfee/AVG from your computer.

[Pititan]

Originally posted by CeSium:

Originally posted by pititan:

You should watch out. When your antivirus blocks a file, you should pay attention to it, and specially now that after the latest update, some guy got a Trojan warning from his antivirus (hopefully it was just a warning and not a real threat) . Antivirus isn't usually wrong.

Depends on said anti-virus. If you use McAfee, or AVG, expect many false-positives. If it says a steam game has a virus, it most likely does not. In fact, just remove McAfee/AVG from your computer.

Mc cafe is crap, nuff said. I personally have avast pro, and I tend to have faith in it. When it gives me a warning of something, I believe it, as its usually right, although it usually just blocks threats before notifying me of them.

[Pititan]

Originally posted by Th0rn The Marked:

Pretty often they are though, of course you should pay attention, but a lot of anti-viruses, Comodo and Avast especially, give false positives with Steam and steam related games.

Won't lie, I have avast, and has blocked a few files from steam. Bit they seem to not affect anything, games still run, and my PC is still fine.

[Piazano󠁳 ⁧⁧[G59]]

Not sure if it helps, but if the threat type has reputation in it, then it is likely nothing. Perhaps the file is new. Some times certain virus programs will whine and delete things because of reputation which means it is new and not many have used it. Quite a petty excuse to delete something off my computer without my permission but it is what it is.