Alliance.exe on CD - BAD!

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Alliance.exe on CD - BAD!

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Griffin
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Post by Griffin » Sat Feb 18, 2017 11:23 pm

I don't know what is up with my Norton Power Eraser program, but after running a scan it is insisting Alliance.exe is bad and wants me to remove it... not sure how that will happen given it is on the original XWA CD...
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Post by Reimar » Sun Feb 19, 2017 4:08 pm

As e.g. this page tells you (from the people developing it): https://support.symantec.com/en_US/arti ... 01744.html
This isn't a tool you should be using without a good reason, because it'll likely break more than it fixes on a computer that is working fine.
Obviously this one is a false positive, which is not surprising. Old programs do a lot of weird/bad things (for example, they are not signed, usually need to run elevated etc.) so they are particularly likely to trigger wrong reports in such tools.

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