For some reason when I start the game, my McAffey antiviral program registers it as a trojan computer virus.  I googled it and folks with other antiviral software programs are also getting this alert.

So what gives?  I'm wondering if this is something I should be worried about or is it safe to ignore?

I'd be more worried about McAffey... obviously it cannot identify a real virus, so what kind of protection could it possibly be giving you?

McCaffee is bad.

Play with the big kids and get Norton.

the only thing worse than Mcafee .... is Norton..... get kapersky if you're gonna use a retail box antivirus..... if not then get trend micro or pc tools .... something that is not a primary target for hackattack yo ... homeskillet .... WORD!!

Played the beta.

I use ESET NOD32. and it never told me anything about the game.

Not sure if a the release is that much different now.

I use Comodo its free and its a firewall and virus scanner.  Its never let me down before and it works nicely. www.comodo.com/

Yea, I dropped Macafee just for the reasons the OP quoted. I now have Norton and haven't had any problems with Aion and playing behind my firewall.

Originally posted by Skooma2

Play with the big kids and get Norton.

My stomach is still hurting, I was laughing so hard at this.

Yup get ESET NOD32.. quite good and you can 30 day trial it free of any commitement.

Norton, Macafee.. thats all old crap.. they were good when there was nothing else on the market.. but they both got greedy along the way.. and spent more time trying to charge for their software than improving it.

Originally posted by Skooma2

Play with the big kids and get Norton.

lol Norton is for the big kids??  or kids with too much money and not alot of sense?

Another vote for ESET NOD32. It has a very small footprint and is game-friendly.

avira antivir! i dont actually use an antivirus on my machine, but thats cuz im not stupid. 2 years virus free

Originally posted by Skooma2

Play with the big kids and get Norton.

LMAO... seriously.

BitDefender

Kapersky

AVGFree

AVAST

NOD32

Panda

I mean there are tons of AV out there, just stay away from Norton and Mcaffe

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Originally posted by gakule
McCaffee is bad.

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Very bad. Nothing about it is helpful. Get rid of it ASAP.

Get Avast :D

Originally posted by Terranah

For some reason when I start the game, my McAffey antiviral program registers it as a trojan computer virus.  I googled it and folks with other antiviral software programs are also getting this alert.

 

So what gives?  I'm wondering if this is something I should be worried about or is it safe to ignore?

 I have McAfee and get no trojan warnings.

AVG isn't functioning as well as it used to, this last few months, and I get several virus-infested PCs to sort out each day that have a fully up-to-date v8.5 supposedly working.  The record for infected files so far is 1070 on one machine, and AVG hadn't noticed a single one. I would suggest Avast or Avira as free alternatives.

The false positive for Aion will be the Launcher program or Game Guard, in all likelihood.

Get kaspersky if you can spare 80$.

 there is a norton gamer edition ,i think its probably the fastest out there for gamer 

and norton detect everything there is to detect lol

the only thing that might make your anti virus is from some file in aion.tab if i recall or a name like that 

and its because gameguard is there 

also always check to make sure that file is closed when you close the game 

happen fairly regularly the aion.tab is still active

annoying hell yes