AVG Antivirus detects POTCO as malicious (INFO)
 

Okay guys. I posted elsewhere about this.

Currently up-to-date installs of Grisoft's AVG AntiVirus detect POTCO's Launcher1.exe as an infected file and blows it away. It then prevents it from being reinstalled, even if you shut down ALL of the AVG services.

POTCO has contacted AVG and AVG is currently working on the product.

Currently the ONLY work-around is to completely uninstall AVG.

Note: This is highly NOT RECOMMENDED!

I've tested this on my local workstation (I already have a current image of it and can easily restore it). It DOES work. After uninstalling AVG and rebooting, POTCO does begin working again.

And, in their infinite *COUGH*WISDOM*COUGH*, the people running POTCO don't seem to be planning on telling anyone about this. They're just going to sit on their hands and wait until AVG fixes the issue.

If you have friends, guild-mates, or strangers who're having problems with their POTCO installs, please pass this information on to them (well, don't tell them about uninstalling their antivirus, some people are dumb enough to do it and forget to install it again later).

I personally paid for my virus scanner, NOD32. I find it the best after trying pretty much all of them.

Don't touch mcaffee or norton is my advise.

*Crosses fingers* Plz avg, come through for me. Pirates is the only good online game I have anymore.

I dont necessarily think its the AVS, more like something in the game thats throwin the AVS into protection.

I paid for mine (AVG Pro) too.

This happens now and again. Have run into it with other AV packages as well.

And yeah, I second no McAfee or Norton.

The AV products aren't TOO bad. It's when you get the stupid "security suite" garbage that your system tells you "I am an underclocked 286 with no math coprocessor!"

It's something in the AV defs that's mis-identifying the POTCO launcher as "bad".

An updated def should fix it.

Let me clarify my response, I dont think its a specific AVS, as it sounds like quite a few different ones are having the same thing.

I use Avast and I've had no problems. I've used McAfee and Norton on previous computers, and all I can say is that those two programs were some of the worst programs I have ever installed. Can't completely remove either of them from your system, they worm their way in much like a virus or spyware would do. My Avast was free and blows both of these programs out of the water.

Just curious though, what happened to the original thread discussing this issue?

P.S. The irony of a pirate using anti-virus software named 'Avast' does not escape me. ;) Love this program though, it is beyond simple.

I was running AVG and it detected POTCO as a virus. I uninstalled it then installed Avast! antivirus. POTCO is working fine.

I'm glad that Avast helped sort out the problem for you. A good program that works without a hitch and is free? I installed avast the first day I heard about it and haven't looked back.

So if anyone is interested, here's a link for Avast
http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html

Mine went beserk today, so I do believe I will be changing to Avast with the rest of you guys for now.

Ditto Here....got rid of AVG and now running Avast.

Looks like the problems started today for lots of us....weird.

Glad you were all here to help! I would have been at a total loss without this thread :) Thank You All!

When I first head about this issue I got really...really worried. lol. But it just wasn't making sense that there were some of us able to get on while others were getting the virus message - so it makes sense that it was a specific issue (AVG) that was causing this. I'm glad that you guys were able to sort out the problem with Avast. Besides, it's only fitting that we pirates use Avast. Arrr! :pirate6:

I updated my AVG yesterday, got the warning about launcher.exe as soon as i tried to log onto pirates, so I uninstalled pirates...and it wouldnt even let my re-install it. I updated AVG today(it was a very small update) and just finished re-installing pirates, and it works fine now, so AVG fixed the problem, apparently!:dancetl6:

Good to see that they were so quick to jump on the issue. I believe that I did read a post here where someone said that it would probably take a day or two to make the necessary adjustments. Nice work AVG.

Ive jumped on the Avast bandwagon myself. I like it so far, but time will tell how it likes me or my PC (been without an AV for the life of the PC)