Civ 5 tries to insert code into other programs: Positive report on Kasperky 2010

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TheCracker

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My Kaspersky gives me following message when I start Civ5

Sid Meier's Civilization V aus der Gruppe 'Schwach beschränkt' versucht Code durch die Installation einer globalen Schwachstelle in alle Prozesse einzufügen.
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This roughly translates to:

Civ5 tries to insert Code, through the installation of a global flaw, into all processes.

When I click on "forbid this action", Civ5 launches normally without any problems at all...
Still I wonder, why do I get this message? What is wrong?
 
Is it Kaspersky 2011?

Because despite the great changes from 2010 to 2011, one change has been that it flags a lot of harmless programs as keyloggers and rootkits.

It's almost certainly a false positive (though kaspersky hasn't flagged it for me).
 
When I close Civ V in DX9 mode it crashes everytime saying Windows Data Execution Prevention closed it. Weird.
 
you shouldnt name a thread title as you did because of a silly message from a virus detector. You should be sure of your facts before making such claims.
 
TheCracker said:
No, I'm still using Kaspersky 2010
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Then I suppose it's a 2010 false positive.

2011 doesn't flag it.

By the way, you should upgrade to 2011 (you don't have to pay), the major release bugs are fixed (windows picture viewer no longer crashes the entire system because of Kaspersky, yay) and 64 bit support is FAR superior.
 
I would suspect it is due to the SQL database writes, and having the program installed in Program Files, while data is maintained in My Documents. Thus the program is set up to write in a location quite different from where it is installed, and has the potential to trigger flags like that.
 
I don't have Civ5 installed in Program Files, I have it on a seperate partition...

Well, now that I updated KIS to 2011 it has gone away, as have those annoying "keylogger" warnings in every game which needs keyboard input...
Thanks..
Still would be good to know what caused this Oo
 
TheCracker said:
I don't have Civ5 installed in Program Files, I have it on a seperate partition...

Well, now that I updated KIS to 2011 it has gone away, as have those annoying "keylogger" warnings in every game which needs keyboard input...
Thanks..
Still would be good to know what caused this Oo
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Kapersky thinking something was doing something that it wasn't doing.
 
xienwolf said:
I would suspect it is due to the SQL database writes, and having the program installed in Program Files, while data is maintained in My Documents. Thus the program is set up to write in a location quite different from where it is installed, and has the potential to trigger flags like that.
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That would be some really substandard heuristic then, since every single properly coded application running on a modern day os separates user data from program files.
 
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