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Malware detected when trying to upgrade Roblox

pizzaboxer edited this page Oct 29, 2024 · 3 revisions

This issue is relevant to this exception:

System.IO.IOException: Operation did not complete successfully because the file contains a virus or potentially unwanted software.

The file being detected as malware is one of Roblox's download packages. As a result, this is actually happening with the official launcher too. This isn't a problem with Bloxstrap.

It's a false-positive detection. In other words, antiviruses are falsely attributing it as malware when it really isn't.

Why is this happening? No clue, honestly. It's only happening for a select few people and is not a widespread problem.

There's no other way to solve this problem than to just add Roblox's download folders as folder exceptions in your antivirus.

Roblox's is at %localappdata%\Roblox\Downloads\.

Ours is at %localappdata%\Bloxstrap\Downloads\ (depends where you've installed bloxstrap to, this is the default location)

Google how to add a folder exception for your antivirus if you're not sure how.

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