Garry's Mod

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Hello

For whatever reason today everyone in Garry’s Mod community who use Avast as their main anti-virus ran into problems starting the game.
When you try to start the game, avast quarantines the hl2.exe file. Stating that it’s something called “Win32:Evo-gen [Susp]”.

I assume that someone falsely reported the file. And I hope that someone at Avast sees this thread and fixes the problem.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/4000/discussions/1/624076027713588767/

Thanks.

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You can report a possible FP here: http://www.avast.com/contact-us.php?subject=VIRUS-FILE

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On four blacklists here http://multirbl.valli.org/lookup/23.201.61.210.html
Some issues here http://www.dnsinspect.com/steamcommunity.com/1417279172

http://zulu.zscaler.com/submission/show/4655a67e9ae01d74ed30bf9b6a2d51ef-1417278821

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Para-Noid, reread the initial request. :wink:

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I did read his request. His request does not make my links useless.

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Well…

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Great, thank you very much. I instantly did that. No doubt someone else might have done it as well by now. :slight_smile:

That’s… just the Steam forums. Doesn’t have anything to do with my issue besides what’s written in the thread in that link.

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You’re welcome.

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Same precise issue here. I can’t open Gmod at all at the moment, even clicking to restore the file and add it to the exclusion list doesn’t seem to stop it.
I can verify the cache on Gmod to make it download another hl2.exe but avast immediately throws up the same warning and quarantines it.

I’ve reported it as a false positive.

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I got an answer from Avast. :slight_smile:

Hello,

it will be fixed in next VPS.

Best regards,
Valerij Medviď
Virus analyst

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It appears to have been fixed now.