Hello forum.
Since the last patch Windows Defender alerts me that a file was blocked for unauthorized access to a folder: …\EVE\Capture when I click to go to Character Screen.
The EVE client shouldn’t go and try to access folders that have nothing to do with running the game, should it? And even if needed to access my Captues folder, I have only 3 .jpeg files in there.
What’s up with the Client?
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The EVE client shouldn’t go and try to access folders that have nothing to do with running the game, should it?
This isn’t a problem with the client, this is a problem with a naive configuration of controlled folder access, which is blocking the client from writing to the directory where it saves screen captures.
Controlled Folder Access is a security setting that doesn’t allow unauthorized applications to write to the controlled folders in question, which generally includes everything downtree of Documents. The intent is to prevent, e.g., ransomware from encrypting those files, but it turns out a lot of applications save data in Documents because that’s where it actually belongs. In Eve’s case, it’s logs and screencaps.
It could be the case that the pre-patch client was previously recognized as legitimate and the post-patch client signature isn’t recognized by defender yet, but in general, that’s a somewhat management-intensive security setting that will perform a lot of unwanted blocks.
@Namdor Thank you. I will look into that.
It triggers antivirus and antivirus puts file in quarantine. Check your quanrentined files and “allow on device”.
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