Virus??

homura

First remove McAfee, that's the main problem. There is no virus, it's a false positive.

Mr. Android

First remove McAfee, that's the main problem. There is no virus, it's a false positive.

Lets not suggest for people to remove their entire Antivirus...

Rikimon19 McAfee is considered pretty bad, unless you paid for it, I would really suggest you go with another provider such as Kaspersky. (Do your own research)

If you don't want to do that, but still want to play, you need to 'add an exclusion' to McAfee so it ignores the BO2 game folder.It's also known as whitelisting.

If you're simply looking for an explanation - the game does alot of things that malware would do too, such as update itself, make connections to our backend, looks IP addresses for servers, modifies memory etc - plus the files are classed as 'new' since we compiled them recently.

The result is false positive reports, it's one of the reasons most antivirus products have a 'exclude a file or folder' option.

homura

Mr. Android well, true.

I would go with Android's suggestion, Kaspersky is very good.

luigistyle

~~or use windows defender like me~~

Emosewaj

Note: With IW4x, not even adding an exception madd McAfee shut up, might be the same behaviour here.

H3X1C

From personal experience McAfee is bad. It's now included with bloatware on most new computers (this speaks volumes....) I suggest to use windows defender instead. It's native, doesn't bother you with popups or demands for money etc.

Rikimon19

thank you very much for all your replys and explanations. I do use McAfee because i got a free pre-paid subscription for 3 years when i bought a new PC. good to know its not an actual virus. just wanted to make sure because it seemed strange at first. the first month i had plutonium it didnt have an issue with my antivirus. its only after about a month i started having problems

iTsHyu

homura You should have caution because after some days playing in plutonium, windows defender started detecting some virus that came from plutonium, a trojan and a defense evasion

Dss0

iTsHyu nice job bumping a 6 month old topic lol.
No need to be cautious, it's a false positive.

Blacksupersaiyan

Dss0 you sure i got a trojan virus

luigistyle

// Topic locked to prevent further abuse / bumping / necroing. Plutonium is not a virus, any AV that detects Pluto as one is giving off a false positive.