ba43 Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 I have lost the ability to work FTX Day/Night. Ever since NZSI installation, there is a pop up from my McAfee Total Protection that says a Trojan was found and deleted. Two times this happened, Artemis something both times and it said they were included with FTX Day and FTX Night. I had FTX day selected last time it worked, but now I can't switch to night and there are no lights in the cities when I fly around. Any advice on this? Thanks, Brad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Harris Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 Hi Brad, The FTX Day/Night application is an executable file (.exe) which swaps between the two versions of Miscelleneous_lib_orbx.bgl found in FSX/Scenery/global/scenery Seems some antivirus programs do not like .exe's running, I'll ask John if we can provide a manual solution Cheers Tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Routley Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 This seems to be a SPECIFIC problem with McAfee. They really do seem to be the most tardy AntiVirus provider around! The only option seems to be to disable McAfee, until they fix their virus signatures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ba43 Posted December 31, 2011 Author Share Posted December 31, 2011 Yes, I need a manual solution I guess. I'm not even able to find FTXLights_Night.exe on my system anymore. The shortcuts are on the desktop but they don't have the FTX Graphics anymore. If I click on them, they bring up a small window. "Missing Shortcut". I have re-installed the program for the FTX Day Night switcher but keep getting that McAfee "Trojan Found" and removed pop up. So, right now, I'm unable to fly in ORBX scenery at night. There are no lights anymore. Thanks for any help. Brad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Routley Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 Simplest workaround (for now) Disable McAfee Run the Day/Night installer Switch +/- Reactivate McAfee (Personally, I'd replace this last step with "Uninstall McAfee, and replace with !avast, or similar") Did I tell you about the time AVG decided iTunes was a Trojan? That would have caused wordwide havoc! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ba43 Posted December 31, 2011 Author Share Posted December 31, 2011 Ian, I took your advice and removed McAfee Total Protection completely from my system. Bought Avast! and so far the FTX Day Night Switcher is back in business! Now need to make sure the new antivirus program will keep me safe. Looks good so far. Thanks for your help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holger Sandmann Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 Hi Brad, regardless of the Antivirus program in use it's always a good idea to exclude the FSX folder tree from getting scanned unless you force it to. In Avast you can set up file/folder Exclusions in the main Settings menu but you also need to separately set those same Exclusions in the Real Time Shields > File System Shields > Expert Settings > Exclusions menu to prevent Avast from scanning FSX files every time you load and run the sim. Cheers, Holger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ba43 Posted December 31, 2011 Author Share Posted December 31, 2011 Holger, Thanks for those tips! Got them all set up in Avast. Brad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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