Best anti virus for FSDT

[zoran]

Going crazy with AV stealing Couatl. So far 2 AV program refuse to exclude it, superantispyware I had to completely unistall off my system and now windows security AV wont allow the program through even after disabling and exiting.

What AV are you guys using that works with FSDT ?

[72westy]

Avast

[virtuali]

It's amazing how bad some antivirus products could be these days.

Fact they don't support the industry-standard software Taggant, which is a digital signature WE USE, which has been designed specifically to prevent false positive, is mind blowing, considering this is an IEEE standard proposed in 2011 and started to be commercially available in 2014.

We use Windows Defender, and nothing else.

It caused some issues with our products (and hundreds of similar ones, of course...) too, with a recent update, but it lasted only some days, then Microsoft quickly acknowledged the bug and fixed it with another update.

[zoran]

Thanks guys I installed avast free version so it ok so far but if it fails then will try defender

[skyymann]

Avast actually blocked me as well. However, it was easy to get it to make an exception.

Scott

[virtuali]

This is a reply I've got a couple of days ago from Avast support:

Hello,

The file is currently not detected by avast. Nevertheless we have whitelisted it.

[zoran]

Avast works perfectly with FSDT

[Martyjr]

Avast has been working for me.
I now even get a pop-up confirming Couatl is ok when I start e.g. FSX ...

[Lude2Envy]

I use ESET NOD32. No problems here. The only FSX related files it ever flagged was the Flight1 GTN750 updater and EZDok but fixed both by adding an exception.

[PhantomTweak]

I've been using Norton, if you can believe it, since it came out, during the DOS 3.1 days. I have NO trouble with it at all. A lot of people seem to, but I exclude the files and folders having to do with Steam, FSX, FS9, and so on.
In all the years I've had it, the biggest problem I think I had with Norton was it messing up my 20Mb Hard-Drive, because it couldn't recognize more than 10Mb. I reformatted,  split into 2, 10Mb virtual drives, and the next version came out solved the problem. I was so happy, having such a big HD available! Does that tell you how long ago, and how minor, it was?
Just as a side note, all freeware aside, I use Norton Utilities too. After all, he invented a lot of them, so I figure he knows what's what. I understand Peter sold all his interests in Norton to Symantech (sp?) and retired now. Rich SOB too...

Have fun! FSDT products sure help, no question
Pat☺