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Norton Antivirus issue again

Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2022 11:32 am
by en1940
Hi Earik,

Norton antivirus does not like W59 again. If I hit "fix" button - it does remove the exe file
Regards,
Ev

Re: Norton Antivirus issue again

Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2022 11:48 am
by en1940
Finding all sorts of threats

Re: Norton Antivirus issue again

Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2022 5:37 pm
by kmorgan
Hi,

Had the same issue with Panda Dome a couple of weeks ago.

Earik explained:

Virus scanner? Try turning that off, then see if you can run W59. If so, then you just have to whitelist it in the security stuff and you’ll be good to go. There’s no virus in there, but to mess with hackers, we do have quite a bit of scrambled spaghetti code (got to make their lives interesting, after all), and virus scanners tend to get upset when they see that.

Earik

I turned off the AV, re-installed W59, and added the program file to the AV exclusion list. I then turned the AV back on, rebooted, and all is well.

Kim

Re: Norton Antivirus issue again

Posted: Mon May 16, 2022 7:43 pm
by earik
I'm a little late to this, but yeah, what Kim said. ;)

Just to be clear: there are no viruses, it's just false alarms thanks to some of the security stuff. I might have piled it on too high with the last build, so maybe will try and ease up a bit on the next one. My preference would be to just ditch all that sort of thing altogether and not worry about pirates, but, as some folks here might recall, I was loosey-goosey once and some guy cracked the software and was ballsy enough to set up his own competing website, which was completely irritating, so nowadays I like to at least try and mess with them a little. Unfortunately, it does have some side effects, like this virus scanner thing... (Sorry)

Earik

Re: Norton Antivirus issue again

Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2022 3:06 am
by dctommy
I just loaded Norton and what do you know....W59.exe gone

How do I get the file to re-load?

dctommy

Re: Norton Antivirus issue again

Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2022 5:28 pm
by earik
Norton deleted the .exe, thinking it had a virus. You have to reinstall to get that back.

There are times when I wonder if it's worth the trouble to put all the security stuff in there, but then I remember that one guy who set up a website with wave59 in the name, a bunch of stolen copy from our site, and was selling cracked versions of the software and hesitate. Then I think of those Eminiforecaster guys who resold the Natal Forecast as a monthly timing service using their own cracked copy, and that just makes me want to add more. I haven't gone so far as putting in logic along the lines of "if cracked software detected, delete all data on c: drive", but I've definitely though about it from time to time. :x

Earik