Re: Survive the Wild Windows Security Threat
To be fair to post four, adding exclusions to any AV tool is very dangerous. Your essentially telling an AV tool that it should never scan that folder. So yes, uninstalling it is more secure than excluding it because your not opening up any holes for malicious software to sneak through. So post four was perfectly right -- irrespective of whether the game is "safe" or not. Adding anything to an exclusions list in an AV tool is playing with fire --and you'll eventually get burned because viruses and malware can put themselves in the oddest of places. (Furthermore, AV tools like Malwarebytes, which have built-in web protection, no longer allow you to visit sites like samtupy.com because it has a supposed Trojan. If you've got an AV that can hook system calls, like networking, and check domains before allowing connections -- and such a thing is very possible (especially with built-in AVs) -- you wouldn't be able to play the game anyway.) STW may be perfectly harmless to us, but clearly the security experts think it is, or the way BGT compiles programs is, otherwise they would've allowed BGT games in particular (there has to be some kind of pattern to identify a BGT game...).
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