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Posted December 08, 2017
Yup I'm another one having to deal with AVAST being a big D, I cant even acces the exeptions anymore, and got
the same kind of responce that an earlier poster got from AVAST.

I guess it's time to dump AVAST, and that sucks, because I haven't had any problems with it in the last 7 years
and now it has become a major pain.
Posted December 08, 2017
Same here.

I have AVG Free
Posted December 08, 2017
This is a false positive, most probably due to the change of the certificate used to sign the GOG Galaxy executable files.

We're contacting the anti virus software providers to fix this issues globally, but in the mean time you can manually allow GOG Galaxy to run.
Post edited December 08, 2017 by Venom
Posted December 08, 2017
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Dejavous: just for an FYI
I had, repeat, HAD Avast for 6 years deleted it today because when I reached out to their technical support they replied
"Please contact the provider for the application, our software has detected malicious content in the updater and put it in isolation, this is not the first time that this has happened with this provder therefore we will not be updating our database to reflect otherwise anytime soon.
I have worked with ESET and Kaspersky on other systems and find the later fairly user friendly and have installed thier free software on my personal system, no more GoG reported as false posative.
I'm under the impression that false positives are fairly common on Avast compared to AVs I have used. Eset is great, have used that 10+ years and 2-3 times there's been false positives but never from Galaxy. I have tried a few others but always went back to Eset because it just works.
Posted December 08, 2017
Thanks for the heads up "Venom", I finally got into the exceptions (I can't believe they locked me out of it) and will add GOG Galaxy.
Posted December 08, 2017
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Venom: This is a false positive, mostly due to the change of the certificate used to sign the GOG Galaxy executable files.

We're contacting the anti virus software providers to fix this issues globally, but in the mean time you can manually allow GOG Galaxy to run.
Still not fixed here
Posted December 08, 2017
Yep, I'm posting here for the first time cause I'm having the same problem and is driving me NUTS.
Every minute Avast is popping up telling me that GalaxyUpdater.exe is either Win32:Malware-gen or the new FileRepMalware.
Pretty sure is a false positive, but don't really know what to do. What I know is that is blocking me from playing any GOG games, which is a damn shame.
Damn, I'm missing Gwent dailies.
Posted December 08, 2017
its cracy the releace shit like that.....
Posted December 08, 2017
It's seems to be fixed now, you can safely restore your files from the quarantine.

But I really wonder why those false positives are happenning, Galaxy is the only one commercial software that keeps triggering those alerts for me (so far three times already this year), I'm really curious if there are some non-standard routines that resembles malware in the program.
Posted December 08, 2017
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Mich-666: It's seems to be fixed now, you can safely restore your files from the quarantine.

But I really wonder why those false positives are happenning, Galaxy is the only one commercial software that keeps triggering those alerts for me (so far three times already this year), I'm really curious if there are some non-standard routines that resembles malware in the program.
Yea, same here, with the malware ???
Posted December 09, 2017
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Mich-666: It's seems to be fixed now, you can safely restore your files from the quarantine.

But I really wonder why those false positives are happenning, Galaxy is the only one commercial software that keeps triggering those alerts for me (so far three times already this year), I'm really curious if there are some non-standard routines that resembles malware in the program.
Steam used to trigger AV software as well when it first appeared, it just because the software is extremely new and AV vendors are hard to contact or often the last contacted when programs change.
Posted June 15, 2018
Same problem with Bitdefender :D
Posted June 17, 2018
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Mich-666: It's seems to be fixed now, you can safely restore your files from the quarantine.

But I really wonder why those false positives are happenning, Galaxy is the only one commercial software that keeps triggering those alerts for me (so far three times already this year), I'm really curious if there are some non-standard routines that resembles malware in the program.
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Lord_Kane: Steam used to trigger AV software
because it acted like malware or spyware?
Posted June 17, 2018
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Lord_Kane: Steam used to trigger AV software
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Spectre: because it acted like malware or spyware?
No, some AV heuristics detections are a bit wanky, but old steam used to do things very weirdly but its been years since I last saw it happen or heard it happen, but Galaxy has been running fine for me, and some things just act like malware, its rare, but it happens.





also why are you necroing a thread from 2017?
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Posted June 17, 2018
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Lord_Kane: also why are you necroing a thread from 2017?
2017 is not exactly exhumation...
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