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CountMorillonite

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This is the third time I've fired up my computer to find that the executable for running the 64bit version of DarkMod has been deleted. I've had to re-install the whole game in order to get that executable back, and in the process of coarse I lose my saves. It doesn't happen right away. This last time I was able to play for a few weeks before TheDarkMod64.exe vanished. Has anyone else suffered this problem ? I'm thinking it might be a Windows Defender decision but I have no way of knowing. 

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3 hours ago, CountMorillonite said:

This is the third time I've fired up my computer to find that the executable for running the 64bit version of DarkMod has been deleted. I've had to re-install the whole game in order to get that executable back, and in the process of coarse I lose my saves. It doesn't happen right away. This last time I was able to play for a few weeks before TheDarkMod64.exe vanished. Has anyone else suffered this problem ? I'm thinking it might be a Windows Defender decision but I have no way of knowing. 

Zip the exe to back it up?

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22 hours ago, CountMorillonite said:

What I'm looking for is a reason why this executable keeps being deleted.

Imo most be windows defender AI system flagging the exe has a virus, personally I don't use it, I use Avast instead and I have no such problem. See in the windows defender "vault" if it has any I don't know, if the exe is there restore it and make a exception.  A relatively famous game developer, Casey Muratori, made a twitter some days ago about this same problem.

https://twitter.com/cmuratori/status/1185242609737818113?s=20

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I'm in the process of looking into windows defender and if I find it is the reason for the problem I'm having, I'll post my results for anyone else having this issue. If I can't find a "vault" of files deleted, I may simply stop running it. I use AVG anyway and I think they update their virus catalogue faster than defender. I don't really remember why I have this redundancy running on my computer. 

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I could not find anything in Windows Defender that lists any files it considers(ed) a hazard and removed. But I still am going to turn it off, then re-install DM64bit yet again and see how long before the executable disappears again. If it does, then the problem cannot be Defender. And I'll have to look elsewhere.

Or, I can always disregard the 64bit version and play the game using the 32bit version. 

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I found the culprit that was deleting my executable for Dark Mod. This last time it also removed "TheDarkMod.exe, so I knew it wasn't WindowsDefender as that program wasn't running.

On June 09, AVG quarantined TheDarkMod64.exe as a viral threat under the title IDP.Genereic. It did this again on Aug 31, Oct 07, & Oct 18. When I found TheDarkMod.exe gone last night I started to explore AVG and opened their Quarantine list to find my executables there.  I checkboxed both TheDarkMod64.exe & TheDarkMod.exe and chose to "Restore And Add Exception". So that should resolve things for me.

My thanks to duzenko and HMart for their help.

 

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