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vaerdis
Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 0 Arc User
Alright we got some Angry gold/AD farmers and players possibly sending in False positives
to Antivirus companies cause they cant exploit like they used to. Players caught
in this can have to add Global Exclusions. How? i got some Examples Below.
---Note-- Folks are having problems downloading, Make sure that the VERY first step
is to Disable the Avast Shields! or it will continue deleting ,once you
have placed the entire Directory * not just the file* in Global Exclude
and pressed OK to everything and Exiting the user interface, Then download the file
to the Correct Directory ( Do not save the file first and then move it do it
directly to the folder! ) Anywhere else on the computer Avast will continue to
Disable/Quarentine it. once that is downloaded in Turn your shields back on and
Doubleclick neverwinter to play, Optional you can make a Shortcut and drag the
shortcut to the desktop for later playing like it always had been. ( do not just
drag the EXE to the desktop, it may copy the EXE completely to the desktop
if it is not on a Seperate Drive ie: d: e: but not c: )
First:
Right click on the Avast Icon and Disable shields and then
Open it to the User interface.
Second:
Select Settings
Third:
Select on the left hand side Global Exclusion, Then click on Browse on the right side
and Select the Folder where Cryptic places Neverwinter.
Fourth:
Click on OK to everything and Exit out of the User interface and Download the new Launcher at
http://download.perfectworld.com/nw/launcher/Neverwinter.exe
and Save it to the Neverwinter folder as seen in example below
fifth:
Once saved, Re-Enable your Shields, Make a Shortcut to Neverwinter
to your desktop and play!
http://i.imgur.com/nfjZusI.png ( 5 image limit so a link instead. )
Other Antivirus users acn do similar with their Av's. This Will Fix the False positive
AV's are giving for now while the AV companies fix this little problem.
to Antivirus companies cause they cant exploit like they used to. Players caught
in this can have to add Global Exclusions. How? i got some Examples Below.
---Note-- Folks are having problems downloading, Make sure that the VERY first step
is to Disable the Avast Shields! or it will continue deleting ,once you
have placed the entire Directory * not just the file* in Global Exclude
and pressed OK to everything and Exiting the user interface, Then download the file
to the Correct Directory ( Do not save the file first and then move it do it
directly to the folder! ) Anywhere else on the computer Avast will continue to
Disable/Quarentine it. once that is downloaded in Turn your shields back on and
Doubleclick neverwinter to play, Optional you can make a Shortcut and drag the
shortcut to the desktop for later playing like it always had been. ( do not just
drag the EXE to the desktop, it may copy the EXE completely to the desktop
if it is not on a Seperate Drive ie: d: e: but not c: )
First:
Right click on the Avast Icon and Disable shields and then
Open it to the User interface.
Second:
Select Settings
Third:
Select on the left hand side Global Exclusion, Then click on Browse on the right side
and Select the Folder where Cryptic places Neverwinter.
Fourth:
Click on OK to everything and Exit out of the User interface and Download the new Launcher at
http://download.perfectworld.com/nw/launcher/Neverwinter.exe
and Save it to the Neverwinter folder as seen in example below
fifth:
Once saved, Re-Enable your Shields, Make a Shortcut to Neverwinter
to your desktop and play!
http://i.imgur.com/nfjZusI.png ( 5 image limit so a link instead. )
Other Antivirus users acn do similar with their Av's. This Will Fix the False positive
AV's are giving for now while the AV companies fix this little problem.
Post edited by vaerdis on
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Comments
It STILL deletes it.
Make sure the first step in all of this is to Completely Disable Avast, Right click on the icon on tray, go to shields and disable permanently this should keep it from doing anything like such...
Seems sloppy on the neverwinter.exe part
im not sure because there was no patching last night or this morningfor me and anyone can Report software as Malware, get enough people to do it and its added to the list automaticly by some Antivirus programs
Looks like its a failed CRC check. which is very basic to setup. its checks the file size vs the CRC value. This is a preventive basic step to ensure that a virus does not sneak into a exe (hence different file size vs CRC) If this is the case and its simply the Devs failed to update the basic CRC or we have some "added" bits of data that were injected into the file. The Dev's borking up a basic file security code is most likely but either way its shoddy and worth concern on my part.
Yeah seems like a good way to get people to drop the security and then hit them with something else. If its hacker/gold farmers reporting it as malware you think they wont think twice about draining your account.
The only difference that I can think of which I did, and they did not, was:
- Right click on the Neverwinter shortcut on your desktop
- Select PROPERTIES
- Under the SHORTCUT tab, click on ADVANCED...
- Check RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR
- Click OK.
I don't know if this was what saved me from this issue, but it's worth a try.
Good luck!