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I am sure this issue has been brought up. Many of the games I play require me to disable Avast when I launch them through Steam. For example, Age of Empires HD doesn’t work for me unless I disable Avast. It does the same thing for Saints Row IV. I am uncomfortable having to turn off my protection just to play a game. I am not sure if anyone will be able to answer this. This is more of a request than a question, too. Maybe Avast needs to look into better intergration with Steam games? Is there a way to request that these be added as safe? Thanks.

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You don’t have to disable the protection, you can set steam (or whatever is needed for the games) as exclusion.

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Ahhhh, yes. Thanks, you were correct. I had to add it’s folder to the Exclusions list under settings. Was a slight inconvience otherwise. I will keep this in mind in the future. Totally n00b at Whitelists, Exclusions, Firewalls.

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Keep learning until you are not a noob anymore ;D