When I have money I buy games,easy purchases gate,gog,steam, but I want Matrix

[Boggit]

My antivirus of choice is ESET NOD32.
It has a silent gamer mode where it will back off anytime your launch a game.
The only time I have had troubles with it was when I tried to update Final Fantasy 14 back with v1.0 of the game. A quick forum browse revealed I needed to disable HTTPS protection scanning temporarily.

The scanner has countless of config options and lets your stay in control.

I've nevre heard of it. The silent gamer mode sounds neat.

[gameleaper]

been quoted these 3 free apps can help Security essentials, unhackme and Malwarebytes

lots to think on here guys thanks

[gameleaper]

What scared me was my last buy was with Kaspersky it blocked the links, you could not download or know why! no way to do anything completely blocked. If i didnt have another PC i would have been in a mess

[spelk]

I've used Avira for years, and have mostly been happy with it, however recently a lot of AGEOD games have been ticking over with detection of a threat PCK/ExeCryptor.

The exe files where AACW.exe (from AACW), WIA2.exe (from Birth of America 2) and AGEsettings.exe (from Birth of America 2).

I submitted them to Avira for further checking for false positives, and the results came back issuing a statement that they were indeed still a threat.

Since I bought all of these titles from Matrix games, I've posted up on the relevant support forums, but sadly haven't heard anything about this issue.

I'd like to think everything is ok, but the files are still being detected as threats everytime a scan kicks off, and I have to specifically set them to ignore, leaving me a little unsettled that my system is compromised in some way.

Normally false positives are rare, and a quick submission usually sorts it out, and future definition file patches take care of it, but Avira are flagging these files as threats after re-submission, and Matrix it seems are ignoring the issue.

I've been having issues with the Anti-Virus software Avira and my copy of AACW. Upon scanning, it throws up a detection of the following threat "PCK/ExeCryptor" in the AACW.exe file.

Assuming this to be a false positive, I send the file in for further interrogation to Avira Labs just to be on the safe side, and they returned the following analysis:

Filename Result
AACW.exe RISK

The file 'AACW.exe' has been determined to be 'RISK'. Our analysts named the threat PCK/ExeCryptor. File has been compressed with an unusual runtime compression tool. Please make sure that this file comes from a trustworthy source. This file is detected by a special detection routine from the engine module.
Please note that Avira's proactive heuristic detection module AHeAD detected this threat up front without the latest VDF update as: %AHEAD_NAME%.

I'm sure all is well, it's just a little unnerving that Avira have processed the false positive claim on the file and come up with it still flagged as a risk.

[Darkspire]

The name rung a bell and I had a look through the notes I keep stored on various anti virus / malware software and they have dropped a few clangers with false positives, this was the latest one.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/avira-antivirus-update-cripples-millions-of-windows-pcs/12129

I would get rid of it and try something else, maybe try the .exes on another system with different software to see what the results are.

Darkspire