Stellaris and Anti Virus

[Amardez]

I have just spent almost an hour trying to get Stellaris to run, because after this last patch it would crash on new custom race creation, so I tried a clean install 2 making sure to delete all the files tucked away in non-steam folders, and after all this it turns out that low and behold despite my virus scanner have an expectation for Stellaris, it was catching it.

Now i have looked on Avasts and AVG's forums and both seem to blame Stellaris and then I have look on Stellaris forums and they seem to blame the virus scanners.

The short of it is dose anyone know of a non-Microsoft free Virus scanner than plays nice with Stellaris, and can anyone tell exactly what they are catching not vaguely as I have already found a lot of it might be this or that.

I really don't think I should need to run off my anti-Virus software to play a game.

 

[AndrewT]

You don't have to turn off Avast or AVG, just tell them to leave stellaris.exe and paradox launcher.exe alone! Their support ought to be able to help you with that.

Why those two AV apps are so troublesome with our games in general (not just Stellaris FYI) I have no idea, but especially with Avast it has happened many times over the years. Something in their detection processes logs false positives on some of our apps, even unrelated ones.

I don't recall any similar issues with Malwarebytes, for one.

 

[Amardez]

You don't have to turn off Avast or AVG, just tell them to leave stellaris.exe and paradox launcher.exe alone! Their support ought to be able to help you with that.

Why those two AV apps are so troublesome with our games in general (not just Stellaris FYI) I have no idea, but especially with Avast it has happened many times over the years. Something in their detection processes logs false positives on some of our apps, even unrelated ones.

I don't recall any similar issues with Malwarebytes, for one.

I had done that previously that is why it took me an hour to find, this patch seemed to have undone it or an Avast update not sure. But it isn't just "your" games and it isn't just Avast and AVG I think there was Panda anti-virus and a few others but they all seem to be very similar this is why I am puzzled

 

[AndrewT]

Every time there is a game or launcher update, you get a new .exe file. Avast or any AV app will be suspicious of a changed .exe file , after all from its perspective that change might be from a malware infection.

So whatever you need to do to get a particular game or launcher version running, you may need to do again after an update of those.

 

[Amardez]

Every time there is a game or launcher update, you get a new .exe file. Avast or any AV app will be suspicious of a changed .exe file , after all from its perspective that change might be from a malware infection.

So whatever you need to do to get a particular game or launcher version running, you may need to do again after an update of those.

Every time there is a game or launcher update, you get a new .exe file. Avast or any AV app will be suspicious of a changed .exe file , after all from its perspective that change might be from a malware infection.

So whatever you need to do to get a particular game or launcher version running, you may need to do again after an update of those.

Just a little surprising that it is inconsistent, not every update. Ah well I might just keep a log of it and see if I can write something to make the expectations faster to add.