FaForever.exe deleted by Norton

[Zoram]

To fellow Norton Internet Security users:
Norton just decided that Faforever.exe was a threat and simply deleted the file.

Had Norton for a while and never happened before

I guess I have to re-install now.

edit: can be undone and Norton can be told to leave FAF alone. Strange behavior though

[Blodir]

Gorton leave him alone!

[Ionic]

Damn, I was hoping to get here first!

[ColonelSheppard]

Unistalling norton ist the first step towards a working PC...

[Zoram]

Unistalling norton ist the first step towards a working PC...

I was waiting for someone to bring that up ..

I know the rep of Norton, when I chose to install it anyway, I did so after consulting enough reviews who all seemed to agree that it had improved and that it's basically a really capable solution (on par with many others as basically no security solution stood out particularly when I chose)

It works (this weird thing aside), my pc works, I have no issue with it.

Regardless, it's a mainstream software, so I thought it would be of interst to people here to know that FAF seems to conflict with it.

[tatsu]

I was waiting for someone to bring that up ..

I know the rep of Norton, when I chose to install it anyway, I did so after consulting enough reviews who all seemed to agree that it had improved and that it's basically a really capable solution (on par with many others as basically no security solution stood out particularly when I chose)

It works (this weird thing aside), my pc works, I have no issue with it.

Regardless, it's a mainstream software, so I thought it would be of interst to people here to know that FAF seems to conflict with it.

you might as well be using the stock : windows defender, from what I understand they're relatively equivalent since Microsoft buy tons of antivirus databases.

[Zoram]

Tatsu, maybe. Did that for a while, and it let a lot go through that Norton stops since I use it. It also has excellent reviews on many review sites so I don't care much that people say it's shit because ... reasons

But that's not the point, I'm not trying to debate which security option is the best or the worse, the solution is easy, I add the FAF exe to the ignore list.

It might however (Assuming it's not just a freak occurence specific to my setup) scare away new users who try FAF out, hence my post, should anyone want to investigate that at some point.

[tatsu]

Tatsu, maybe. Did that for a while, and it let a lot go through that Norton stops since I use it. It also has excellent reviews on many review sites so I don't care much that people say it's shit because ... reasons

But that's not the point, I'm not trying to debate which security option is the best or the worse, the solution is easy, I add the FAF exe to the ignore list.

It might however (Assuming it's not just a freak occurence specific to my setup) scare away new users who try FAF out, hence my post, should anyone want to investigate that at some point.

I think the procedure is filing up a forum thread with them about an incorrect flagging. it may take awhile but it should bear results.

[Zoram]

thks, will try that.