Question EA Launcher = virus?

[punkncat]

Playing Fallen Order again to get myself in mode for playing Survivor. One of these is in Epic and the other is in EA. I was in Epic, clicked to open EA via the game shortcut in Epic and it tells me my authentication failed. I went to click on the EA app and a large grey box I have never seen opens asking me to verify my email. I did not recognize that, so closed it and immediately the PC goes nuts throwing warning about a virus being stopped. This goes on for a minute or so and the EA app just closes in the background.

I pulled a full scan, checked updates again, went and opened EA independently and it seems to have run without issue.

Looking online about this issue seems to indicate a pretty significant difference of opinion about the loader, and more specifically its anti-cheat and background process being malware. Can anyone shed some light on this one?

 

[Lutfij]

and immediately the PC goes nuts throwing warning about a virus being stopped.
What anti-virus are you working with?

opened EA independently
From the source folder? If so, I'd try and look into the properties for the executable/shortcut on your desktop and it's destination folder


What OS are you working with?.

 

[punkncat]

Windows 11 Pro, will have to go write down the build, I think H2xx. (I cannot RDC into this PC right now either, something about changing from local account to the new Windows Hello mess)

I was in the Epic launcher and you may be familiar with how you can purchase a game in one launcher but it actually is in another, so the game I was trying to open shows an icon in Epic but then opens EA to run the game. Really not sure by what process that aspect works in regard to the executable.

Just opening EA by the desktop shortcut did not pose any issue.

edit- Windows Security/Defender

PC actually hasn't been used much lately. Pretty much the only thing we have used it for is as a streaming viewer for stuff like Prime, Peacock, Paramount, Netflix. Nothing dodgy at all.

 

[punkncat]

Got talking to a couple of friends on Discord and it appears that this is a known but unresolved bug with the one launcher opening the other one with privileges it doesn't have (or somesuch). The recommend was to open EA manually instead of allowing the other launcher to.

 

[iTRiP]

Got talking to a couple of friends on Discord and it appears that this is a known but unresolved bug with the one launcher opening the other one with privileges it doesn't have (or somesuch). The recommend was to open EA manually instead of allowing the other launcher to.

Other thing I can recommend is to open all games Drm launchers manually after pc boots and you login to windows OS, that said I know Steam, Rockstar games, EA, and Ubisoft all work fine opened manually this way most of the time, add to the knowing if EA launcher is virus, something fishy last time I tried downloading games owned on that, that my CPU spiked to half usage for the entirety of the download specific to EA games download confirmed (on a 100% clean OS), got no more games to download now so I wouldn't know if that been fixed in the meantime, other than that I don't use Epic, but the ones I mentioned worked and ran nearly flawlessly 24/7 here on my pc.

 

[punkncat]

Other thing I can recommend is to open all games Drm launchers manually after pc boots and you login to windows OS, that said I know Steam, Rockstar games, EA, and Ubisoft all work fine opened manually this way most of the time, add to the knowing if EA launcher is virus, something fishy last time I tried downloading games owned on that, that my CPU spiked to half usage for the entirety of the download specific to EA games download confirmed (on a 100% clean OS), got no more games to download now so I wouldn't know if that been fixed in the meantime, other than that I don't use Epic, but the ones I mentioned worked and ran nearly flawlessly 24/7 here on my pc.

In my own case I typically don't have the launchers set to 'open with Windows' and in particular (when I do) have to go in and set Fortnite NOT to auto update. (I am aware that is on Epic) That is one fill up your drive fast type game. I also had to set Warthunder that way for Steam. As you mention yourself, all of a sudden your resources drop and the PC is running like crud to realize that is it updating a half dozen games or so.