GameFirst IV - Flagged as malware by McAfee

[PMaqueo]

Hey so it was not being detected as a virus for a while until my virus database updated this morning. Then it detected and deleted it again. If I knew it was going to be this problematic I wouldn't have purchased the antivirus license, I am regretting it so much. Any solutions?

[AliAPCMR]

Can everyone experiencing this issue please share your software version? This is required by our software team.

I am on avast Free Antivirus and the Game First IV that came on driver disk that was inside the motherboard box got flagged as malware/virus I immediately formatted my SSD and re installed the OS and downloaded the Game first Software from the Asus site. For Avast the one from the Asus website site didn't flag anything up as malware or a virus. My OS is Windows 10 Pro Version: 10.0.15063 Build 15063 as for the game first version that was originally installed sorry I disposed of the disk so I don't know that version. It seems it may well be a legitimate malware/virus since the files differ from the disk and online version.

[Bahz]

Hey so it was not being detected as a virus for a while until my virus database updated this morning. Then it detected and deleted it again. If I knew it was going to be this problematic I wouldn't have purchased the antivirus license, I am regretting it so much. Any solutions?

What version of the antivirus software do you have? I am told that our teams, both notebook and motherboard side have updated McAFee

[Bahz]

I am on avast Free Antivirus and the Game First IV that came on driver disk that was inside the motherboard box got flagged as malware/virus I immediately formatted my SSD and re installed the OS and downloaded the Game first Software from the Asus site. For Avast the one from the Asus website site didn't flag anything up as malware or a virus. My OS is Windows 10 Pro Version: 10.0.15063 Build 15063 as for the game first version that was originally installed sorry I disposed of the disk so I don't know that version. It seems it may well be a legitimate malware/virus since the files differ from the disk and online version.

Sorry I'm a bit confused, so the current version is "not" flagged in Avast right?

[PMaqueo]

What version of the antivirus software do you have? I am told that our teams, both notebook and motherboard side have updated McAFee

Sorry I didn't answer earlier, the good news is that with a new update my laptop got a couple of days ago, the problem is now again solved. I hope it stays like this now. Thanks for the support.

[Bahz]

Sorry I didn't answer earlier, the good news is that with a new update my laptop got a couple of days ago, the problem is now again solved. I hope it stays like this now. Thanks for the support.

Thanks for providing your update on this, they did provide the updated build to them sometime ago so now I guess they finally got around to updating their list.

[Firefox8821]

I have had this problem and ended up swapping from McAfee to BitDefender, but can tell you McAfee is picking that up for a good reason. The file "nfapi.dll" is a core file used in many trojan and ransomware viruses, and it is used in this software for the easy GUI. This version is safe, but most others aren't. Good job for detecting it, McAfee, but learn exclusions.

[JJAskiz]

I acquired a brand new ROG GL502VT recently and absolutely love it. It came with a free McAfee Antivirus Subscription, the store requires it for warranty purposes.

Everything was great until McAfee did its first scan. It immediately quarrantined two files, c:\Program Files (x86)\Asus\Game First IV\nfapi.dll and nfapinet.dll. I re-downloaded the GameFirst IV software from Asus, and reinstalled it. Two days later, McAfee again flagged the same two files as malware.

I have been in touch with McAfee Support, and even got through to one of their software engineers, who checked the files for me and confirmed that its not a false positive, it is a true positive, and McAfee are classifying them as malware.

I am wondering what the next appropriate step to resolve this issue will be, and if I actually need GameFirst IV installed in the first place. I can't seem to find a lot of information about it.

Many Thanks

Hey,

There should be a "Add program to safe list" option somewhere in the McAfee Internet Security settings so you can add the Game First IV program to the safe list so it doesn't pick it up as a Virus/Malware. I had the same problem with Kaspersky Total Security when downloading, installing or using Trainers/Cheats Programs on my Gaming Laptop. But when I found the "Add programs to safe list" option and added some of the Trainers/Cheats Programs to the Safe List, most of them worked without me disabling Kaspersky Total Security completely. You should do the same with the Game First IV program. I hope this helped.

JJAskiz.

[Firefox8821]

Hey,

There should be a "Add program to safe list" option somewhere in the McAfee Internet Security settings so you can add the Game First IV program to the safe list so it doesn't pick it up as a Virus/Malware. I had the same problem with Kaspersky Total Security when downloading, installing or using Trainers/Cheats Programs on my Gaming Laptop. But when I found the "Add programs to safe list" option and added some of the Trainers/Cheats Programs to the Safe List, most of them worked without me disabling Kaspersky Total Security completely. You should do the same with the Game First IV program. I hope this helped.

JJAskiz.

It doesn't work. I had to swap AntiViruses and its fine now, but before I tried to MANY times and it would still block it. Good job, McAfee.

[JJAskiz]

It doesn't work. I had to swap AntiViruses and its fine now, but before I tried to MANY times and it would still block it. Good job, McAfee.

Yeah, I use Kaspersky Total Security and when I add the programs to the White List, it's all good.