JM Stuff Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 Hi all Have installed the game CMBN and all modules and updates long time ago on my laptop I am on holliday and i dont take my installation cds but have all key numbers My antivirus Avira has found a virus combat mission.exe but in fact there is no virus i can no more find the file in the quarantaine Do i have a possibility to loading and installing the game again from the Battlefront page ? Thanks in advance to your answer 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sburke Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 (edited) The virus is in all likelihood a false flag. You just need to tell it to ignore and possibly restore any files it quarantined. It has been noted frequently that virus protection software is falsely flagging the CM executables. In your case it looks like somehow it went a step further. Ouch Go to your account on the battlefront page and enter your key. It should allow a download. If you have any issues contact the help desk and they can sort you out. Edited June 17, 2015 by sburke 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JM Stuff Posted June 17, 2015 Author Share Posted June 17, 2015 (edited) Thank you very much for your very fast and usefull answer it seem I have a possibility to loading all again from the Battlefront.com Thanks in advance Mr CM Junkie Edited June 17, 2015 by 3j2m7 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael T Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 Just curious, but I have many PC games I play. Yet CMBN is the only one I have had trouble with in regards to my AV getting angry with. What is it about CMBN that is different to all the other games I have played? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seedorf81 Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 Hello Michael T, Did you have to download those other games too, or did you buy them on a cd/dvd? That could make a difference in how your virus scanner looks at it. CD/DVD all right, download suspicious. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JM Stuff Posted June 18, 2015 Author Share Posted June 18, 2015 Hi guys have modified my antivirus setup hopefuly this will no more happend if you have infos about this let me know thanks in advance 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael T Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 I haven't had a CD install for years now. So no CD's. All are DD. I am semi PC literate so I can usually get thru these issues. But I know at least 2 friends who bought CMBfN and never got to play it as they could not get it to run as the AV stopped it dead. And support was not very helpful. I agree they should probably become more knowledgeable about their PC's but I am still curious as too what makes CMBfN so prone to these problems. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Canadian Cat Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 AV vendors no longer emphasize detecting known viruses but rather preventing any suspicious activity where suspicious is defined and anything new . It used to be that AV software scanned for known viruses and that was it. Two things happened - the malware writers started changing their programs a lot (so they would not match the AV program's signatures) and they started getting trickier about getting onto the victims computers (as in not just piggy backing on pirated software or similar). The AV software guys responded by not only looking for known bad signatures but flagging anything that heuristically behaved anything like the tricky malware guys. The trouble is anything out of the ordinary flags their heuristics - my guess is the DRM is the big culprit here. I am no fan of DRM - but I understand it is necessary. Increasingly I am even less of a fan of lazy AV software that is basically flagging everything as bad that it does not know about in advance. It is a sad state of affairs that we would not use or play software from a legitimate business because some AV software company would rather deny you that than risk letting something 'off' get through (or more likely because they don't want to spend the time to make sure legitimate software can be used - like I said lazy). As for a solution - here is what I do now. I am using a PC. I have a separate directory where I install all my Battlefront games called you guessed it "Battlefront". I spent the time figuring out how to tell my AV program not to mess with anything in that directory or its sub folders. Now whenever a new game or a patch or an upgrade comes along it all goes into that directory and I no longer have mysterious problems with stuff not working for my games - and I do not have to remember every GD time I change something to poke around with the AV software. So tell your friends that if they invest some time, once, navigating their AV software and create a directory where it will stay away from you can have a good experience with Battlefront games - and probably other games too. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael T Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 Thanks, and I will pass on your post. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JM Stuff Posted June 19, 2015 Author Share Posted June 19, 2015 thank you for these useful update guys 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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