cricket14.exe Conflict with Avast
Hi
Thought I had better register here to make Bigant aware of an issue with the current cricket14.exe version. I just tried to launch the exe via Steam and Avast decided it was a nasty virus and deleted the cricket14.exe file without even asking me if it should proceed.
Of course once its missing the exe file, I can no longer launch the game. Its odd as I had played it yesterday and earlier today without a problem. I guess either DBC14 updated or the Avast Virus definitions must have updated since.
I am pretty certain its a false positive as once I fixed the issue, I checked the exe with Spybot, Malware bytes, and Ad aware, all of which reckon its clean. I sent Avast an email to report a probable false positive detection.
If anyone else gets their main exe deleted by Avast, its not too difficult to rectify. You have to do the following...
1) Disable Avast for 10 minutes (theres an option for that)
2) Go to DBC14 properties-->local files--> Verify Integrity of Game cache
click on this and it will detect the deleted file and re download it.
3) Go to Avast-->Settings-->Anti Virus and add the path to your dbc14 Exe to the exclusions list. Mine is
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\DBC14\*
4) Re-enable Avast
Hopefully they should both play nicely together once you do that
Geoff