Plokite_Wolf: False positive, GoG would never place a virus.

Avast is paranoid shit, anyway. Remove it completely.

neosapian: I won't remove Avast when I could merely disable it.

neosapian: Merely that some URLs can get hijacked by the best of companies or webmasters.

neosapian: and I am not chancing a pitch and toss and allowing the pass and getting on my PC until I get a few more opinions and maybe one of GOG's site admins' advice., I just recovered from the last infection from a place called "nexus" legit also, competently run site also, as well, but shit happens.

qwixter: I have avast, and I added the gog galaxy client directory and the gog install games directory to my exclusion list because the stupid false positives. In avast, you cannot say ignore and keep, which is why I had to add those directories to the exclusion list.

Plokite_Wolf: You'll find out that Avast, as well as most other modern antivirus programs, will cripple any attempts to do anything that doesn't involve Microsoft's or the antivirus' developer's programs. I've changed several in the past two years alone. There's a paradoxical occurence with antivirus programs - the more "popular" they are (especially AVG), the more paranoid and inefficient they are, with maybe the exception of Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware.

they are excessively paranoid, Kaspersky even worse like a Den Mother Hen to every user, no AV is perfect, or even close, but sometimes the positives are right.Plokite_Wolf: That would imply that someone managed to hijack GoG's elaborate system and attach malicious code to a file type that has no less than hundreds of megabytes, often dozens of gigabytes.

it only seems to affect the startup.exe file(in this case GalaxyClient) I have had other games own start up(seemingly) affected as well. Wing Commander V WC5.exe(or something like that, don't remember the exact name) and caused my ethernet drivers to be crippled after I removed WC5.exe manually with the "delete" command. this is not normal for removing a file, only thing it should have done was cripple the game, not my ethernet. I could not get online had to get my DVD-ROM for the old drivers for my network card to work again.Plokite_Wolf: You can open a support ticket in the GoG Tech Support section, but do not expect any answer different to that it's a false positive.