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Virus in Dowload v1804 - 12/24/2008 10:05:03 PM

helop5

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I just bought the game and went to download the patches. Everytime I download the v1804 comprehensive patch my anti-virus program quarantines the witprec.exe file with a virus. Is there somewhere else I can get the update? HELP!

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RE: Virus in Dowload v1804 - 12/24/2008 10:38:35 PM

wdolson

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It's a false positive. Some AV program flag witprec.exe as a virus. It isn't.

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RE: Virus in Dowload v1804 - 12/24/2008 11:05:50 PM

helop5

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I can count on that? You are positive? I would hate to kill my computer!

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RE: Virus in Dowload v1804 - 12/24/2008 11:06:45 PM

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Yep, it has happened before. What AV are you using and what version?

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RE: Virus in Dowload v1804 - 12/24/2008 11:16:02 PM

wdolson

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If you google witprec.exe, there are about 1200 hits on people who ran into the same problem. It's well documented.

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RE: Virus in Dowload v1804 - 12/25/2008 4:59:49 PM

helop5

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Guys, thank you. I just have to run it with my anti-virus program shut-off. Even restoring the file doesn't solve the problem. When I launch the game the virus progam immediately quarantines the file.

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RE: Virus in Dowload v1804 - 12/25/2008 5:49:26 PM

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ORIGINAL: helop5

Guys, thank you. I just have to run it with my anti-virus program shut-off. Even restoring the file doesn't solve the problem. When I launch the game the virus progam immediately quarantines the file.

Good luck then... often when the file is quarantined, it is "sanitized" first - which pretty much destroys the functionality of the file. This requires reinstallation.

Contact your anti-virus provider and ask them if you can specify an exception for a false positive...

AVG had this problem, but updated within a day or so to correct it... i forget all the other programs that also labelled it as false positive, but i think there were several.

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