eniced73 Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 AVG antivirus was detecting the shock force.exe as a win32/heur trojan. I have had both running on my machine for months now with no problem. Why would AVG all of a sudden recognize the .exe files as trojans? Is anyone else having this problem? Just asking thinking AVG updated itself and caused this. I went into AVG and set it to ignore all of my shockforce .exe files and it works now. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stikkypixie Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 AVG antivirus was detecting the shock force.exe as a win32/heur trojan. I have had both running on my machine for months now with no problem. Why would AVG all of a sudden recognize the .exe files as trojans? Is anyone else having this problem? Just asking thinking AVG updated itself and caused this. I went into AVG and set it to ignore all of my shockforce .exe files and it works now. Had this as well. Hoping that it's AVG 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eniced73 Posted March 8, 2011 Author Share Posted March 8, 2011 Good. Glad to see I am not the only one. It has to be something with AVG database. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Medex Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 Yeah I'm getting this as well. For me it seems to be the Nato module. The exe icon is funny with the Nato module, its not the same as the British or Marines. I have been playing the game with no problem for the past week or so since i downloaded the bundle. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Medex Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 I just scanned the CMSF_3Module_Bundle_Setup file I downloaded from Battlefront and AVG found 11 win32/heur infections. umm.. is this bad?? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moon Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 No, it's not. win32/heur is not a virus. "heur" stands for "heuristic" which is equivalent to "unknown". It seems that AVG has released an update today or yesterday which is creating a lot of false positives like this based on unknown virus signatures. You can turn off "heuristic" scanning and see if it helps, and/or use the AVG feature to set exceptions and whitelist specific files it erroneously flags or even whole folders. Martin 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Medex Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 Okay will do. Thanks for your help Moon. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elmar Bijlsma Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 Good old AVG. I know it is free and everything (or at least, I expect most of you to be using the free version) but it pulls this stuff every now and again. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lets_All_Fight Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 Just noticed this too. How do I go about exempting CM from AVG? I can run CMSF alright but it seems to have eaten NATO. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gibsonm Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 Well: 1. It impacts on the paid version too, and 2. Setting to exempt is fine if you only have CM:SF or even CM:SF and CM:A but as I have some 99 *.exe files (spread across various builds of CM:SF / CM:USMC, CM:UK, CM:NATO, CM:A and CM:BN - I know because it just listed them all [and wanted to delete them]) its a PITA. I've just changed the scanning pref to warn me of an "infected" file not automatically clean / quarantine it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stikkypixie Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 Just noticed this too. How do I go about exempting CM from AVG? I can run CMSF alright but it seems to have eaten NATO. You have to exempt the files in the "Module" folder as well. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gibsonm Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 Just noticed this too. How do I go about exempting CM from AVG? I can run CMSF alright but it seems to have eaten NATO. It may have moved it into the quarantine area (I think that's the default setting). If you open AVG, select "History" and then "Virus Vault" you can return the "suspect" application to where it should be. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lets_All_Fight Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 Thanks guys. Got it fixed. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tank Hunter Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 Got this too yestarday on my brand new rig.. Was like WTF?? Then I took a deep breath thought for a minute and went just Naaaah BF wouldn't infect us now would they?? Why would they??? Clicked on OK and went to sleep.. =) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Compassion Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 FWIW it's happening to me with CMAK as well. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moon Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 Yes, most eLicense protected games seem to be affected. We've notified eLicense to make sure AVG knows about it. Probably will get fixed in the next definition updates. I've cursed about AVG a lot since they do tend to generate a bunch of false positives with their heuristic filters, but then at least they do tend to listen and are fairly quick to solve problems, unlike some other companies (cough-spersky)... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ssn651 Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Thanks everyone for the postings. Turning off the evil "H" word seemed to do the trick for now. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranger33 Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Same thing just happened to me, came here fearing I had some kind of exotic problem but looks to be pretty common and thankfully has an easy fix. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huhr Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 How do you go about doing this with AVG? I have the AVG pop up when I start the computer. I tell,AVG to ignore but I need it to ignore the file? Any help appreciated on how to do it?Thanks 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schrullenhaft Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 You need to 'whitelist' the CMSF executables (the main executable, all module executables and the 'Runservice.exe' copy-protection executable) within AVG. Typically it is the 'active protection' (I can't recall what AVG calls theirs) that is the culprit. These instructions for whitelisting within AVG are for an older version and hopefully they are still accurate. Otherwise you may want to search for 'AVG 2015 whitelisting', etc. and see what results you get (preferably from AVG's site). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huhr Posted November 12, 2015 Share Posted November 12, 2015 Hi Sch, Thanks for your response. The AVG program calls it "exceptions" now and I have the entire folder on the exception list. I was playing an online game FPS and the program popped up all of a sudden. Bummer 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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