Just started Steam and got a block on “FileSystem_Steam.dll”… Avast moved it to chest and at restart of Steam it started updating itself (from Steam) and as soon as the file was downloaded… blocked again.
It seems to be a false positive … to say the least.
Note repaired Steam by downloading a new fresh install… and got a false positive on vtsdlib_s.dll as well…
That is definitely NOT fixed.
The staff don’t even give a fuck about that.
Come on, that’s Steam damnit! That’s not some unused software!
That crapware is a piece of shit. I’m coming back to Kaspersky.
I’m having the same problem as well.
I wouldn’t even care if Avast would have a decent ignore list but it does not so I’m stuck with choosing between playing games or running the antivirus.
And the antivirus won’t win that.
Edit: looks like it does have a functional ignore list for the file system shield but it doesn’t listen to the global ignore list for some reason…
Rather depends of what you put in the exclusion and if the detection is in an on-demand scan on in the on-access scanner, that is what that set of exclusions are for.
The avastUI > Settings > Exclusions requires the full path of the file (copy and paste that into the exclusion) to be entered.
I think that I am having the same problem. I did a boot scan after downloading it and it found no problems with steam. but when i logged on and attempted to start the program it came out first with the WIN32:Malware-gen threat on steamclient.dll and then after several attempts also tier0_s.dll. Is this problem being worked on? I love avast! but this is getting old.
There have been several stream updates this afternoon (4), whilst I don’t know if these may be related to a fix for the detections, I would suggest that you scan those files again and see if they are still detected.
I’m not a gamer so I can’t check if this corrects the detection/s.