Anti-virus software vs huge AGS game executable: battle of the century

[Crimson Wizard]

Sorry, couldn't resist  


Seriously, I met this problem recently: I finally bought Grim Reaper's "Downfall" only to have my computer freeze forever as soon as I touch game executable: unpack it, run it, even check file's properties. I was about to think there's some curse that doesn't let me play this game, but then intuition told me to try running the game with anti-virus software disabled. It ran perfectly.

I have a vague guess that this may be caused by big executable size. Downfall.exe is 273 Megabytes (!) large, which is the largest AGS exe I ever seen (second to it was tsach's MAGS game, I think, which was about 100 MB).

If this guess is correct, whom should I blame? Stating this differently, should AGS somehow warn game creators that AV soft may cause problems if game exe is too large and suggest them to put resources into separate files (I know there's such option)?
Or maybe I should report this as a bug to company which made antivirus soft I am using?
Have anyone else ever experienced problem like this?

[Dataflashsabot]

What antivirus software are you using?

[Crimson Wizard]

"Dr.Web"

[blueskirt]

Haha, I'm having the same problem here with Kaspersky. The computer stalls anytime I launch or quit a huge AGS games like Downfall or T-Rex and Muscle Sam, anytime a .exe, .dll or thumb.db files is extracted from an archive... And it get worse if the computer ran for more than 6 hours. Two years ago, I suggested Kaspersky to everyone I know, it had the highest virus detection rates, and could completly scan my computer in 45 minutes instead of 4 hours like Avast, next month, for the first time ever, I'll format my computer because of its antivirus instead of its viruses.

[david]

I use Vipre and the game works fine and smoothly