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Avast and Steam

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  • 06-08-2012 2:35pm
    #1
    Rossi IRL
    Registered Users Posts: 8,369 ✭✭✭


    anybody else having problems, comes up as malware.

    cant play or do anything


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    #2
    Dave_The_Sheep
    Registered Users Posts: 7,333 ✭✭✭Dave_The_Sheep


    Rossi IRL wrote: »
    anybody else having problems, comes up as malware.

    cant play or do anything

    I had a problem alright. You may see the error "cannot find find steamclient.dll" or something similar when updating. The trick is to disable avast while that update is going on.

    If you disable Avast, steam works fine. I'm sure they'll update their definitions shortly though.


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    Rossi IRL
    Registered Users Posts: 8,369 ✭✭✭Rossi IRL


    Dave_The_Sheep wrote: »
    Rossi IRL wrote: »
    anybody else having problems, comes up as malware.

    cant play or do anything

    I had a problem alright. You may see the error "cannot find find steamclient.dll" or something similar when updating. The trick is to disable avast while that update is going on.

    If you disable Avast, steam works fine. I'm sure they'll update their definitions shortly though.

    its gettin on my nervs now, ill disable it and get on with my farm sim


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    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,811 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Yeah I had the same problem as well yesterday. I reset the PC updated avast then ran steam which updated the client and sorted it out. Plenty of other people had the same problem.
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    #5
    Genghiz Cohen
    Registered Users Posts: 7,182 ✭✭✭Genghiz Cohen


    I added my Steam folder to the exclusions list.


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    #6
    danthefan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,770 ✭✭✭danthefan


    Microsoft Security Essentials is a very good free alternative which has no problems with Steam.


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    Chavways
    Registered Users Posts: 1,905 ✭✭✭Chavways


    Thought I was the only one. Mine said it couldn't load the SteamUI.dll or something like that but I just removed it from the Virus Chest in Avast and it sorted it.


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    Gigabytes
    Registered Users Posts: 72 ✭✭Gigabytes


    Add C:\Programs\Steam\*
    To the exclusion list in avast, our whatever your directory path is.


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    #9
    WillyFXP
    Closed Accounts Posts: 833 ✭✭✭WillyFXP


    Jeysus people, avast is still being installed???? Get rid of that ****E and use either Microsoft Security Essentials or Commodo Internet Security/AntiVirus, both free, and both actually WORK.


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    #10
    RustySpoon
    Registered Users Posts: 420 ✭✭RustySpoon


    Avast program update fixes this, no need for exceptions etc.


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