Author Topic: Joystick mapping gone, guns empty on first log in  (Read 1055 times)

Offline Skuzzy

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Re: Joystick mapping gone, guns empty on first log in
« Reply #15 on: June 08, 2010, 06:27:20 AM »
Can't be McAfee as mookdog uses something different and had the same thing happen. <snip>

Yes, it can be.  If it is as poorly implemented as McAfee, it certainly can cause these types of problems.  Making a computer unstable is a trademark of McAfee and Norton.  There are probably others that are just as bad as those two are.  Because of the way the install (over-writting system files) you really cannot disable them entirely.

Anti-virus programs do bad things to Aces High because we are constantly updating config files.
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Re: Joystick mapping gone, guns empty on first log in
« Reply #16 on: June 08, 2010, 02:41:13 PM »
Yes, it can be.  If it is as poorly implemented as McAfee, it certainly can cause these types of problems.  Making a computer unstable is a trademark of McAfee and Norton.  There are probably others that are just as bad as those two are.  Because of the way the install (over-writting system files) you really cannot disable them entirely.

Anti-virus programs do bad things to Aces High because we are constantly updating config files.

Also, don't forget that virus signatures are often shared among AV providers. As a result, if one program detects a certain pattern as a virus (even when it's done erroneously - as in false positive) then others may suffer the same detection failure because they may have incorporate the same detection string into their own product.

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