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Post by Sue on Feb 2, 2017 13:53:39 GMT -5
This is a helpful tip for my fellow Petz gamers, not a request. I did research before posting this. It happens. On 02.01.17, I ran a full system scan on my computer using Norton Security. It removed several of my breed patches and quarantined them as Heur.AdvML.C virus files. Which they are not! It's simply an old patch that New Norton doesn't approve of. The patches are fine. But more importantly, it removed my intro retail.dll file from my Petz 3 resource folder, which stopped my game from loading. I restored the file and my game is fine. Just in case anyone runs into these problems using breed patches or simply running a scan and have these issues occur. Know that this is a false positive issue. Not an actual virus.
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Post by Alex@Marvel on Feb 2, 2017 14:00:59 GMT -5
I'm going to move this to petz talk and help since it could be very helpful in that area. ^^
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Post by Sue on Feb 2, 2017 14:03:49 GMT -5
Of course! Thank you.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2017 14:09:45 GMT -5
False positives themselves are bad enough, but this? That's just stupid and completely uncalled for. At least you managed to recover the files afterwards. Looks like that's one other reason not to trust Norton, other than it being a resource hog as I always remembered it as.
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Post by RebeccaMonkey on Feb 2, 2017 15:02:54 GMT -5
My old virus program used to do this as well (well, it removed certain pet and breed files). So I'm convinced everything is just biased against petz lol. But thank you for the tip!
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Post by azalea2412 on Feb 2, 2017 20:01:37 GMT -5
I use Kaspersky now. I have not had as much problem with it as with Nortons. Knock on wood.
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Post by Sue on Feb 3, 2017 9:21:40 GMT -5
Right. I'd heard of this before, just never ran into it. I think I have a handle on it now. I simply excluded certain folders from scans, and if downloads are caught midstream, I can temporarily turn off Intrusion Prevention to download, then store it in one of my protected folders... then turn it back on.
The sad thing is... how can one be certain that a download _is_ in fact safe, if once scanned, shows up as infected. *shrugs* I know my files are fine, I know pretty much what I can trust... but not all. I like to be able to rely on my Antivirus, but now I know it's wrong sometimes. ugh.
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Post by azalea2412 on Feb 3, 2017 13:16:27 GMT -5
Unfortunately, somewhere someone created a virus that had similar properties to the petz patch. Now we all suffer.
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