[COMPATIBILITY] WA3E-friendly antiviruses list
[COMPATIBILITY] WA3E-friendly antiviruses list
There are many antivirus programs available and many of them affect performance of certain software, mostly based on old engines such as Blitz3D (the one Wonderland games are based on). As I had various issues with WA3E and antivirus software, I decided to make a topic in which the case can be discussed. I'll update the list in the first post as I get more reports from the community. If you have antivirus software which is not on the list please write in this topic if you experience (or not) any problems with Wonderland Adventures trilogy games.
Last update: 19th May 2015
Blacklist - AVs known to cause problems, whitelisting WA game's folder doesn't help or isn't possible:
Bitdefender Antivirus Free Edition
McAfee SecurityCenter
Whitelist - AVs which work fine with WA games, whitelisting WA game's folder helps if problems occur:
avast! Free Antivirus 2015
AVG AntiVirus Free Edition 2014*
AVG AntiVirus Free Edition 2015*
McAfee Internet Security*
Microsoft Security Essentials
Norton Security Suite
*whitelisting recommended
Last update: 19th May 2015
Blacklist - AVs known to cause problems, whitelisting WA game's folder doesn't help or isn't possible:
Bitdefender Antivirus Free Edition
McAfee SecurityCenter
Whitelist - AVs which work fine with WA games, whitelisting WA game's folder helps if problems occur:
avast! Free Antivirus 2015
AVG AntiVirus Free Edition 2014*
AVG AntiVirus Free Edition 2015*
McAfee Internet Security*
Microsoft Security Essentials
Norton Security Suite
*whitelisting recommended
Last edited by Pawelec on Sat Jun 06, 2015 9:44 am, edited 7 times in total.
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Personally I hate McAfee, so I'm not using their products, but which edition of their AV you have? McAfee SecurityCenter (shipped with Dell notebooks) doesn't offer the "Excluded Files" option.jdl wrote:Mcafee should be okay to use now! If you go into Real-Time Scanning and click on "Excluded Files" you can add editor3d.exe to the list so that it won't get scanned.
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Hmm, that's strange. You'd think that they would all use the same code base with different features added or removed based on which version you get. If excluding files is one of those features then that's pretty dumb to be honest.. Anyway, "Mcafee Internet Security" is what mine says.Pawelec wrote:Personally I hate McAfee, so I'm not using their products, but which edition of their AV you have? McAfee SecurityCenter (shipped with Dell notebooks) doesn't offer the "Excluded Files" option.jdl wrote:Mcafee should be okay to use now! If you go into Real-Time Scanning and click on "Excluded Files" you can add editor3d.exe to the list so that it won't get scanned.
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It seems to be important what Windows version you're running. On W7 it needs whitelisting to work at full pace for me, while on W8.1 it runs smooth without it. I've also observed that AVs cause more problems when custom stuff is used in a level, I have no idea why it happens.
So in general to avoid possible problems it's better to whitelist it, but as long as it works for you don't bother yourself about it.
So in general to avoid possible problems it's better to whitelist it, but as long as it works for you don't bother yourself about it.
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by Giuseppe Verdi
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