The Powder Toy

AVG error?

  • burnininhell     24th Mar 2016 Member 0 Permalink

    With the latest build 91.1
    AVG seems to think it's a virus and immediately removes the program.
    Is anyone else having this issue?

  • jacob1     25th Mar 2016 Developer 0 Permalink
    Yes, someone else also reported the issue here: https://powdertoy.co.uk/Discussions/Thread/View.html?Thread=20778

    When does AVG detect the virus? Is it on first download, when starting the program, or only after viewing the front page?

    If you can figure out how to set an exemption that should work, since it is a false positive. My guess is that because I compiled 91.1 with -O2 instead of -O3, that changed the .exe file slightly enough to make it trigger this detection.
  • burnininhell     26th Mar 2016 Member 0 Permalink

    Sorry for the repeated post.
    Exception created. Thanks!

    It happened the moment the game was started, or on running 'Powder.exe' when redownlaoding.

  • jacob1     26th Mar 2016 Developer 0 Permalink
    @burnininhell (View Post)
    Can you maybe test this build? I changed it to compile more how 91.0 was compiled, which might make it not false positive anymore: https://powdertoy.co.uk/Download/Builds/Build-326/powder-win32.zip

    I assume the exception won't apply to this so you shouldn't have to remove that other exception to test this as long as the exe file has a different name.
  • burnininhell     26th Mar 2016 Member 0 Permalink

    @jacob1 (View Post)

     I'm not getting any problems.
    I also removed the exception and it seems to be running fine.

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