Potco

[Alligirl]

Ok so DH just told me that this morning his antivirus software (AVG) found a trojan virus in the POTCO program. The problem is in ...Launcher1.exe Please be careful! Anyone else find this? Or is it just the Crash Queen yet again?!

[chrisb26]

This has been happening to alot of people. Appearently something is happening to cause the antivirus software to give a false reading.

[Alligirl]

So I can use it? That sounds kind of scary! Am I going to crash my whole PC?!?!

[NJ Camper]

Don't know if these are related or not but my pc some how lost my passwords for intercot and another dis site i had to redue both all my other places have been fine anyone else have this

[Alligirl]

Well it makes me nervous because when i played in beta it crashed my whole computer! Thank goodness it was DD's because her school just gave her a laptop and DH fixed the pc eventually. DH would have a fit if I ruined this main computer!

[Randypandy]

I just scanned mine for virus and no threats detected. I'm at level 10 now and just got another quest and can't do it because i haven't gotten unlimited access yet.

[Lehman Family]

I have gotten a warning too. I just restored the files from the Virus Vault (might be named different in your antivirus program).

The warning in mine is picked up by something called Heuristics which is an antivirus programs way of trying to determine if a virus is present even if it's not in the virus definition folder. So basically there's something about the program that makes your antivirus program think it might be a new type of virus.

I turned off my heuristics (not recommended) and haven't seen the problem since. It's more of an annoyance at this point than an actual issue. I think PotCO actually had a message about it in their FAQ at one point.

[Chescat]

For some reason since last Friday, we are having a lot of our POTC online friends having the same issue. Its the AVG software detecting something as a virus that's not. I run Norton AntiVirus and it hasn't found anything. I've been playing pirates for over a year with no issues. Its only seems to be the AVG people, and it started a few days ago.

People have been turning some feature off when they run pirates and then turn it back on when they are done (I believe it was something n the Heuristics).