I have updated the EVE Launcher with the new Evolved Beta Launcher. It was working fine for a couple of day, then all of a sudden today, when I start the launcher, my antivirus software “Bitdefender” detected this possible virus: Gen:Suspicious.Cloud.4.hy4@aW!!l3oi and I couldn’t start the game. …

There was no virus, it was a false positive, sometimes these things happen with any antivirus. If the source from where you downloaded the program or file is a trusted one, nothing will happen… add the program to the exceptions list and that’s it. Probably some part of the launcher code is similar t…

So CCP never makes mistakes and accidentally includes malware in their patches? Antivirus software exists and warns for a reason, and while false positives do happen, and most detections in files from the EVE client are indeed false positives, false positives are rare, and it is CCP’s responsibilit…

This is Windows Defender, from today’s patch. More information can be provided if necessary, but if any potentially sensitive data is needed, then I will open a support ticket. [eve_trojan]

It seems im not alone. I also encountered this today, Same Trojan , same file …

I also got the same thing. what is the work around?

My flag happened AFTER i patched my launcher while i was running 1 client and tried to start another… Could we get someone from CCP to look into this? [image]

Bumb have friend whit same problem that cannot log in, still waiting for solution

[image] Eve files are incorrectly flagged by Windows Defender - 2023/06/16 Announcements Hello everyone, We’ve had multiple tickets submitted over the last hour and we’ve become aware that old versions of Windows Defender are incorrectly flagging EVE files as a Trojan and…

Hi all - See Eve files are incorrectly flagged by Windows Defender - 2023/06/16 for more information.

Possible virus detected in Launcher?

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Geo_Eclipse_Oksaras (Geo Eclipse Oksaras) June 17, 2023, 12:54am 9

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