Norton Antivirus pegging Oculus Tray Tool as a threat

Athracht

Athracht
Howdy out there...

After reading a few threads about it here on this forum and elsewhere, I've decided to try the Oculus Tray Tool as a replacement for the Oculus Debug tool, as people are saying it's a much better solution. But when I download the zip file, and I seem to be downloading it from the right source, my Norton antivirus almost immediately quarantines, or removes outright, the setup executable. Is this legit? Is Norton just being overcautious? Has anyone else encountered this?

Thanks!
 

Athracht

Athracht
Beavis Tingleball said:
norton is probably the worst AV program you can install on a system used for gaming.
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Thanks for the tip. Can you be specific? It's never caused a problem for me that I'm aware of (well, other than this false positive, if it is one...). Is it a resource hog? What would you recommend as a replacement?

<EDIT> OK... just did a bit of Googling... Opinions are all over the map, but many peeps seem to share your view that Norton is bad for gaming, as it is a resource hog. Can't seem to find a definitive conclusion on what DOES constitute a good AV solution, but I'll keep investigating. Thanks again!
 
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Jakester13

Jakester13
Athracht said:
Thanks for the tip. Can you be specific? It's never caused a problem for me that I'm aware of (well, other than this false positive, if it is one...). Is it a resource hog? What would you recommend as a replacement?

<EDIT> OK... just did a bit of Googling... Opinions are all over the map, but many peeps seem to share your view that Norton is bad for gaming, as it is a resource hog. Can't seem to find a definitive conclusion on what DOES constitute a good AV solution, but I'll keep investigating. Thanks again!
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Microsoft's built in anti virus is perfectly serviceable. I combine it with Malwarebytes and a bit of wisdom about what you're clicking on always helps!

Haven't had a "Antivirus" (Norton/McCaffee/AVG/Avast/etc) for well over 6/7 years while running with the above set-up, nor have I had any (major) infections.

o7
 

TorTorden_VR

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Jakester13 said:
Microsoft's built in anti virus is perfectly serviceable. I combine it with Malwarebytes and a bit of wisdom about what you're clicking on always helps!

Haven't had a "Antivirus" (Norton/McCaffee/AVG/Avast/etc) for well over 6/7 years while running with the above set-up, nor have I had any (major) infections.

o7
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The new "protected folders" feature in the fall update "soon to infect you all" brings windows defender up to proper annoying.
it's intention is to prevent crypto viruses but the end result, any program not considered nice by MS throws up warnings when they do anything in these folders, and yes your "users" folder is one of those.

So "documents", "desktop" etc and anything on there.
So far almost every installer and every game needs to have this turned off or added to the whitelist.
Most installers get caught only for silly stuff like adding a desktop icon..

And there is no "No, allow this." button on the notifications either, just a 3 second notification and a file path to the offending software.
And for games that uses the "documents\my games" etc to store settings won't be allowed to do so unless you add each .EXE to the whitelist.
 
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