AVG alarm with Unity 4.3

Hi,

anyone else got this ?

Virus found Win32/Heri
Windows81\x86\debug\UnityPlayer.dll

Basically for all UnityPlayer.dll in the Windows81\X86 folder.

Yes, I just got the same warning after installing 4.3. I guess/hope it’s a false positive?

ZoneAlarm does not give any warning, scans a clean.

Same here. For now I won’t use Unity 4.3 and wait for confirmation that this is really false positive.

I have the same problem…
I found something in a Thread on the AVG page:

So probably AVG is thinking Unity is a virus although it isn’t, bacause Unity does evil things in the background…

I just got that too! I’ll trust Unity for now, but if they got infected and are spreading a virus worldwide I’ll get very very mad LOL

Same here … Unsure what to do though …

Just got the same as well… Going to Ignore it I think…

Same problem here. I have reported the issue to AVG (on http://www.avg.com/us-en/false-detection) with the files, so they can have at look at it.

There is no option to ignore, just remove a single threat or all of them.

To get around this, I believe that you need to set an exception for the unity editor.

Open AVG, click Computer, click “settings” in the left panel, then in the list you will see exceptions ( near the bottom )
Select Folder for the exception type, then navigate to Program Files (x86)\Unity\Editor , and select ok ( leave default selected for resident shield and computer scans ).

This should remove any further concerns, but hopefully unity can do a heads up with avg as I hate setting exceptions for stuff…

Just did a test on http://virusscan.jotti.org/ and most virus scanners can’t find any virus, so mine is on the exception list now.

Works perfectly, thanks !


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AVG is truely aweful, thats where your problem lies.

Using AVG myself, but it’s indeed very trigger-happy on dropping virus alerts on files…
In general, haven’t scanned since upgrading to 4.3 and now that I know this, I’ll wait a bit longer for AVG to update the datafiles :slight_smile:

Same issue with Kaspersky Pure 3.0