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Update on AVG/Avast (Patreon)

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2018-06-21 10:56:32
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EDIT 2016-06-26: although both AVG and Avast said they had remedied the issue and neither was detecting any viruses when I used VirusTotal.com to check, the problem has since come back. I don't know what is causing this, but I just contacted both AVG and Avast again to report the ongoing issues. Hopefully they will fix it in a timely manner.

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Original post: So first the good news. I have gotten a response from both AVG and Avast where they say that the latest beta, v13.0.0beta3, should no longer be detected by their software as containing a virus. If you still experience issues with AVG/Avast then you might need to update the virus database. If that also doesn't help, please let me know and provide the date and/or version number of the virus database that your installation is using. This last part is very important, without an indication of the database used, AVG/Avast will refuse to investigate further.

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Erik T.

Have a great time away. Random question, any ETA on the new website?

Jason Silver

Ran the updates on AVG, it still sees the sheet as a virus.

James Carlisle

AVG Software version 18.3056 Virus definition version: 180624-4 JS:Pdfka-gen [Expl] C:\Users\JamesE\Dropbox\MPMBs Character Tools\MPMBs Character Record Sheet [beta] (PDF)\MPMB's Character Record Sheet (v13.0.0beta3) [Colorful - Letter].pdf JS:Pdfka-gen [Expl] C:\Users\JamesE\Dropbox\MPMBs Character Tools\MPMBs Character Record Sheet [beta] (PDF)\MPMB's Character Record Sheet (v13.0.0beta3) [Colorful - A4].pdf

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>>13340536

Thank you for this thorough report! With this I was able to contact AVG that the PDFs are still falsely being flagged as containing a virus. Let's hope they are able to fix it soon :)

Jay

I was able to apply an 'exception' in Avast to keep it from checking the folder where I keep all my character sheets. No problems since.

Sylien

Discovered a small mistake in the Tiefling varient of Zariel, in tome of foes. The sheet says web, the book says Branding Smite for 5th level spell.

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>>13496110

Is this with v13.0.0beta3? This was indeed a mistake in the previous versions, but has since been corrected. It was also corrected in v12.999 on 2018-06-19

Erik T.

I'm working with a Tiefling on 12.999 and it doesn't seem to be adding either of the Infernal Legacy abilities (Hellish Rebuke & Darkness). I'm not sure if I'm missing something or this is an oversight. To clarify, it's not adding them to the spell sheet.

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>>13582797

Thank you for reporting any issues you find with the sheets. Do you mean that the spells are not showing up in the spell selection dialog or just not showing up on the newly generated spell sheet after they were listen in the dialog? Is the character high enough level to have access to the spells (level 5)? Can you reproduce the issue with v13.0.0beta3 or tell me the steps how to reproduce it on a freshly downloaded v12.999?

Erik T.

I’m glad I could help. I’ve been told I’m pretty good at breaking things 😁

FreakyAlienGenotype

One thing that's always bugged me slightly (it's not an actual bug, more a feature request) is that when you take the Martial Adept feat, you can't then choose which Maneuvers to take. Would it be possible to enable access to the list via a dropdown of some sort? Maybe appended to the Class Features button? Thanks again for the effort you put into this, it's truly awesome.

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>>13657167

The reason the Martial Adept feat doesn't have its own option for selection is because that feat is a bit of an outlier. No other feat works like that and because of that I haven't made a 'feat options' button for the sheet to be able to do this. Simply because that is a lot of extra work for only a single feat. It is not possible to add its options to the class features button without complications. So for now it is not on my wishlist of features. I might put it up for a vote when there is a new chance for that (so after v13 is done).

Jason Silver

Any update on AVG not seeing the file as a virus? I updated my AVG last night and still no change..

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>>13684332

The update I have is that AVG says the files are clean and their software no longer detects it as a virus. I tried it myself and also can't get AVG to flag the PDFs as containing a virus anymore. Because of this, they refuse to further investigate people claiming that there is still a problem (you are not alone there). As you are still having trouble with AVG, would you mind filing a false positive report (here: <a href="https://www.avg.com/en-us/false-positive-file-form" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.avg.com/en-us/false-positive-file-form</a> ) with screenshots of your AVG version number and the virus database number? I know it is a lot to ask, but AVG has assured me that there is nothing they can do at this time without more information, information that I can't give them as I can't reproduce the issue. Look in this comment section for James Carlisle. He is describing problems with AVG in more detail - certain things that seem to work while other don't. Perhaps his comments will help you as well.

Erik T.

Not sure I would call this a true bug, but I noticed that if I have an attack added with which the character is not proficient (manually unchecked), when he levels up and it regenerates the attack, it re-asserts that he is proficient.

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>>13789378

This is not a bug, but very much intentional. The re-calculating of weapons is there mostly to deal with newly gained proficiencies. So if you manually uncheck a proficiency in the attack section, but the proficiency section shows that you should be proficient, the sheet will check it off for you when you level up. if you want the sheet to not do this, you will have to look in your proficiency section and change what is causing the attack to be proficient. Either that, or you just add '-Prof' to the modifier field.

James Carlisle

Interesting. Before it detected in the Dropbox shared folder and not my OneDrive. Now it's doing the opposite. And always the same two files. It only seems to not like the Colorful versions AVG Version 18.5.3059 Def version 180715-4 C:\Users\JamesE\OneDrive\Gaming Materials\D20\Dungeons & Dragons\Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition\Character Sheets\MPMBs Character Tools\MPMBs Character Record Sheet [beta] (PDF)\MPMB's Character Record Sheet (v13.0.0beta3) [Colorful - Letter].pdf Virus = JS:Pdfka-gen [Expl] C:\Users\JamesE\OneDrive\Gaming Materials\D20\Dungeons & Dragons\Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition\Character Sheets\MPMBs Character Tools\MPMBs Character Record Sheet [beta] (PDF)\MPMB's Character Record Sheet (v13.0.0beta3) [Colorful - A4].pdf Virus = JS:Pdfka-gen [Expl] I think I'm going to just create exceptions to that path at this point. It's pretty clear that AVG isn't going to update their DATs for this.

James Carlisle
>>13870484

Turns out I never deleted my Dropbox path exception so I don't know if that would've gotten picked up as well or not. Either way, like most, I'm tired of fighting with it so I've given both directories a pass in AVG since I'm now convinced they're not going to ever fix this. Been thinking of dumping their product anyway - it's full of spam popups anyway.