I don't think they have to...some just do such things on their own, like mindless robots. o.0

Spambot thread detected... moving on? Cheers

Not spambot....likely a diehard steam/epic fan.

What do you mean "you people!"

Never had Windows Defender say anything about GOG. Windows Defender is more than fine for regular home use in 2019, just an FYI.

Usually....I had a browser extension inject a injector virus onto my system that defender kept trying to remove and couldn't. I had to reinstall that browser/clear it's temp files/etc just to get defender to not eat up 40% of the cpu constantly trying to remove it.

That is why I keep a secondary AV for such cases.

But, but, guys

You missed the most important part: He's saying Galaxy is nine years old!

October 15th 2014, AVP went free and cross platform with Steam at galaxy's initial unveiling.

OP your google skills are horrible!

So either he misremembered or he is a steam/epic fan come here to stir the sh*t.....thanks for noticing that....nice catch.

Apart from letting malware slip through. Sometimes it is better than other AV for other attacks.

I don't recall Avira Antivirus whining about GOG games/installers ever either. Then again, it isn't like I have installed all GOG games, for that matter, so I can't be fully sure there are such games.

Avira has given warnings (which I am pretty sure were false positives) from some other applications though, especially if talking about noCD cracks etc. I recall Windows Defender doing the same, and in my previous workplace Windows Defender gave me constant trouble with some Java developer thingie that I needed for my work, and I had to write a script so that I could from time to time recover that removed file. The company policy didn't let users touch their antivirus settings (so I couldn't mark it as an exception myself), and the IT department claimed it was already marked as an exception for all, yet the file kept disappearing due to MS Defender. Damn.

Not sure if these false positives are always due to the "heuristic" malware detections, and whether in general it would be just better to switch off that heuristic stuff, in case lots of false positives accumulate?

I wish though Avira would ASK me what to do with a file it detects. Nowadays it just quarantines the file, ie. moves it out of sight and renames it, I guess. Quite often that warning window goes by so fast that I am unsure which file it relocated.

A CD crack website is what gave me my only virus ever, around 2008. It was roughly when Fallout 3 came out, that's why I know the date. I remember playing FO3 and my PC crashing and then rebooting into virus town. That was when I collected discs and often used CD cracks to remove the need to put the disc in the tray every time, and those files were notoriously sketchy.

Nowadays with digital games it's less of a concern. I feel like I know what to click and what not to on every site I go to, so even Windows Defender seems a bit superfluous (though I leave it on, 'cause why not). The only mildly concerning sites I go to are abandonware ones, and even those I barely visit because I've already got everything I want that isn't on GOG, pretty much.