No one has reported it, however even in windows 10 and previous it was random, the majority of players never got the message, I never have. (though I did get the one about running out of installs :p, which they resolved).

hey so windows 11 defender doesn't trigger the false positive?

No idea, as I said so far no one has reported it. Have you got a false positive?

nah, i just got w11. from w10 and in w10 i used to get this all the time.

Just disable Windows Defender

Originally posted by Ceejay:

No one has reported it, however even in windows 10 and previous it was random, the majority of players never got the message, I never have. (though I did get the one about running out of installs :p, which they resolved).

so it only happens on windows 10 right?

windows 11 doesn't do this false positive?

Originally posted by %a:

Originally posted by Ceejay:

No one has reported it, however even in windows 10 and previous it was random, the majority of players never got the message, I never have. (though I did get the one about running out of installs :p, which they resolved).

so it only happens on windows 10 right?

windows 11 doesn't do this false positive?

You keep making assumptions. I never said it does not or may not happen, just that so far no one has reported it on steam. Someone could have had a false positive and just not posted about it.

Any antivirus/malware program is potentially capable of a false positive. I really do not see why this is an issue, you do not need to worry about false positives....only real positives :p

just got new rig with win11 getting false pos so yeah it does

Originally posted by CAW SandraBollock:

just got new rig with win11 getting false pos so yeah it does

DAMN IT.

Originally posted by CAW SandraBollock:

just got new rig with win11 getting false pos so yeah it does

Hehe, oh well there we go, we got our answer :p

Now what do we do about the false positives? I'll turn off my firewall for the duration of gaming if necessary.

I have 2 screens. 1 I had Defender settings and the 2nd, the game. I kept the Defender down till the game was going, then turned it back on and the game continued fine from there.

I used this method to add the Crysis 2 folder to exceptions. No need to toggle the firewall anymore. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGiNGnX5dYg

so i got it my self w11 home, this is just annoying that it carries over to w11, this will never be fixed. all i remember was back in 2012 when i bought it it never had this problem.

Not sure its directly fixable, its simply the way defender looks for viruses, while it has a list of viruses it knows about, like most anti-virus, to help stop possible new ones that have not been identified yet (as they come out all the time) it also scans for potential viruses by looking for patterns in code, that may but may not be viruses, Its simply the game seems to flag this feature up now and then. (which is why false positive are a thing).

Oddly though some people never get a warning, I have never had Defender do this on any of my computers, including several laptops and desktops over various versions of windows (though I have not upgraded to 11 yet, as my 10 works how I want, will upgrade when I have too).

Though this and other people having a similar experience, helps to back up its a false positive, as if it was defo a virus, it would flag up on everyone's computer as well as other anti-virus programs also flagging it up, certainly it would be a known virus by now (considering how long the game has been out, usually it takes a few months at most to identify new virus).

Which is why its slightly odd, as you would think defender should be working the same way on everyone's systems, so why does it flag a possible virus for some people and not for others?

I never found a definite answer for this, (ie if its looking for patterns in code, surely it should flag up the same bit of code for everyone?) The only thing I can think of is maybe background programs or certain hardware/driver combinations are affecting the way the algorithm is running (though that could be totally wrong).