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FROM LAUNCHING". I tried setting an exception for Windows Defender with both the file path to Steam itself and the process for executing Portal Fantasy, but nothing has changed. I'm not using any other
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Can you try uninstalling and installing the game. It sounds more like one of the game services isn't running at all and that is why it is not even stopping [/quote]

When the anti-virus issue

Did anyone else Pick up a possible trojan recently from this game?

Hi,
I am a avid user of Steam and I have no concerns with the software until yesterday. Yesterday I was downloading an update for 'Portal 2' (Via Steam), and my anti-virus detected the virus software
2) and it deleted it. Team fortress 2 downloaded with no worries and no virus messages. I would like to check if it is just a software to download "Portal 2" Specifically. Again I have never had

I was going about my buissness the other day and I recieved an update for portal. I thought nothing of it. But about a minute later Syntatic Endpoint Protection told me that the update had Trojan

For those who are getting the virus warning for Portal 2, it means your Anti-Virus program is ♥♥♥♥, no seriously its true. The only way to fix this is to get a better anti-virus, i have Kaspersky and
, these are all very bad anti-virus programs. Get Microsoft Security Essentials, its free and it is much better, it wont even mention the Portal 2 virus. Because its actually not a virus! Anyway make the

AVG detected portal2.exe as a virus. help?

I just installed Portal Knights and tried to run it when Norton blocked it and reported it to be a virus.

HDD\\Games\\Steam\\steamapps\\common\\Splitgate 2\\PortalWars2\\Plugins\\1047\\MerlinAntiCheat\\ThirdParty\\equ8_client'
2025-05-23 13:37:53 [A376]: Init
2025-05-23 13:37:53 [A376]: Setup drv
2025-05-23 13:37:53 [A376]: Driver path
security software (Anti-Virus/Firewall) deleting critical files or otherwise interfering with the loading process.

Error message from Windows:
1053: Service request timeout.

Try the following to fix the

During my Portal download using the Steam client.

I use Norton and recently a new update for Portal 2 was released, Norton recognised a Trojan virus and blocked it. Is this a False-Positive situation? Anyway, I verified the game files and it started
downloading again, when it finished the same error virus message re-appeared however the update was already complete. I ran all of the possible scans that Norton has to offer and it only came up with ♥♥♥♥♥♥