Avast and world of warcraft

[jormungar_worm]

After a recent update, users of Avast anti-virus software may be experiencing problems logging in. This is caused by a false positive which is flagging World of Warcraft cache files as malicious.

Work around that work'd for me.

open Avest then click on Real-time shields.



Next click on Expert settings.



A new window should pop up now click on Exclusions.



Now inside a empty box you will need to type in.

C:\ProgramData\Blizzard Entertainment\Battle.net\Cache\*

and in another empty box you will need to type.

.auth

And make sure that all 3 boxes next to them are all tick'd.

Like so ( things you need to write are underlined in Red )



And wow should run as normal, Hope this helps Avast.5 users

Love Sinji / Jorm ( depending on what website you read this on ).

[burningforce]

is there a reason for two rules? can't you just click the browse button and select the folder (blizz programdata folder) and make sure all 3 boxes are checked and that's it?

BTW thanks for the pics and info, I seen this on the wow forums tech section, but was a little different then your instructions, hence the questions :P

[jormungar_worm]

The problem from what i can tell is Avast thinks the cache files are malicious so aslong as you click browse go to Program Data and then make sure you have a tick in next to blizzard entertainment then it should be sorted.

the .auth is because it was also trying to block the pop up for an authenticator in my case

[Tim]

Holy crap...

JORMUNGAR IS BACK?

Where have you been buddy? Also, what server are you on these days?

[jormungar_worm]

Originally Posted by Tim

Holy crap...

JORMUNGAR IS BACK?

Where have you been buddy? Also, what server are you on these days?

Yeh im still around just not as much as i used to be and im still on turalyon EU been raiding alot and stuff and not had alot of free time the last few weeks

[burningforce]

ah ok got ya jormungar, thanks for the info