Recently (as of 9/23/09), my AVG Free Anti-Virus has been saying that my Diablo II.exe is a trojan virus. It is the first time that has ever happened and I have not tampered with the file in a month. I am thinking that today's AVG update caused some kind of conflict with the .exe but am not sure. I have done many fresh reinstalls but to no avail. Would anyone happen to know what is going on?

Yup same here..... I'm guessing it's a problem with AVG if you tried reinstalling and got the same error. I was putting off the reinstall fix cause I'm lazy. This happened to me once before where AVG was saying WoW was a virus.... might have to get rid of it again.

yo me too i just got this problem today!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i go to play, and my diablo 2 errors up immidatley and avg deletes it and says its a trojan.. i tried re installing 3 times , ignoring the trojan, healing it with avg ect... nothing is wroking... it keeps just saying theres a backdoor trojan or osmmething like that from my AVG.

So what is a solution to this problem, I've tried everything under my cpu to fix it. I've looked all around AVG's website and they dont have anything about contacting them without paying 1oo plus bucks.

How is it that turning off AVG still results in the same error?

I run AVG and i'm not getting any errors. What version of AVG are you guys running? Also, did any of you install any kind of third party mods?

I posted a solution on yahoo that can be found here:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090923154315AAydY3O

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Q u o t e:
Originally posted by Piesofthenorth

How is it that every time people have a common problem, you don't have it?

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Five or so people having the issue makes it common? Thousands(?) of people get restricted on an hourly(?) basis. That is a common problem.

EDIT: After updating my virus definitions (Last update was yesterday?) and rescanning, it flags it for me as well. Looks like all we can do is wait for AVG to update that.

I managed to bypass the error by opening my AVG Anti-Virus, double clicking the Resident Shield option, and turning it off (unchecking "Resident Shield Active" box) the OR click on Manage Exceptions > Add Path and link it to your Diablo II directory (so your path will be as such: C:/Diablo II NOT C:/Diablo II/Diablo II.exe). This will cause AVG to overlook all files in that directory.

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Q u o t e:
Originally posted by Piesofthenorth

Well, also I've found I can't host again today. and i know how to forward the ports, I've done it before and it's forwarded correctly.

Is it possible that this avg thing could be messing that up too?

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I guess it's a possibility, but I doubt that the two are related. Do you have a Static Internal IP?

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Q u o t e:
Originally posted by Matrix121391

I managed to bypass the error by opening my AVG Anti-Virus, double clicking the Resident Shield option, and turning it off (unchecking "Resident Shield Active" box) the OR click on Manage Exceptions > Add Path and link it to your Diablo II directory (so your path will be as such: C:/Diablo II NOT C:/Diablo II/Diablo II.exe). This will cause AVG to overlook all files in that directory.

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Well, I wouldn't suggest the user completely have AVG overlook the d2 directory. If they use some kind of third party mods/programs that happen to contain viruses, then they would be in the d2 directory and not be found. Perhaps just adding the executable and not the entire path.

I don't think you can just add the executable. Adding a path to the exceptions only allows you to go up to directories and not smaller files.

Sure you can. This should work:

Go to Tools > Advanced Settings > PUP Exceptions > Click "Add Exception"



EDIT: I've made an informative thread for any users that are going to come asking about this tomorrow...
http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=20140804515