Hi,
Do not believe a single word of AV's in regard of dgVoodoo, no matter what they say, it's complete bullshit. 😁
They can detect the wildest things, see this post where I analyzed an AV report on dgVoodooCpl (but the whole thread is about life-souring AV's):

Re: Google Safe browsing Advisory

So, I don't know what those service-tinkering statements are based on, not a single module of dgVoodoo deals with services.
The Cpl is just a plain Win32 GUI app that uses the same library for manipulating config files as the dll's themselves (for reading).

My main rule for AV's is that the built-in MS Defender is the only one I deal with (I can report false positives to MS), all the other are out of my scope. But anyway, I always run a scan on the zip's on VirusTotal when releasing a new version.
Nowadays only 3-4 out of the ~60 AV's reports false positives. Much better compared to the times 2-3 years ago, when it was 15-20 / 60. Also, MS Defender didn't detect the latest versions of dgVoodoo, so I didn't even report them.

Which game is that you making a launcher for? (Permission granted. 😀 )

Dege wrote on 2022-03-24, 20:04:

Re: Google Safe browsing Advisory

Thanks for the detailed answer! I read the entire thread. Very funny, but also very sad.

Dege wrote on 2022-03-24, 20:04:

Which game is that you making a launcher for?

I'm writing a new launcher for my favorite "NetStorm: Islands At War" RTS. It will allow to play different versions of the game on modern systems and apply mods to the game in a couple of clicks. And it's also will allow easy to update the game to the current NetStormHQ fan patch (for playing on online servers).

I was interested in dgVoodoo, because only with dgVoodoo I can see NetStorm lightning flashes in the clouds 😀 The only problem is that when I turn on dgVoodoo, the gameplay in OBS stops capturing, but I will deal with this later.

Now my main task is to get rid of the old NetstormHQ launcher, because it is also falsely detected by AI antiviruses, and is morally obsolete. There are also plans to add a game modification system, without breaking the fan servers, which are still working thanks to the NetStormHQ community. When there is more news, I think I will share it in a Windows game thread somewhere on this forum.

Dege wrote on 2022-03-24, 20:04:

(Permission granted. 😀 )

Thank you!

Nothing popped up when I scanned the files with the latest version in McAfee and I always had issues with the older builds that I downloaded being flagged by that AV engine.

I used Nod32 mostly and have done for years but its not stupid like quite a few other AV programs and I have yet to have it throw false flags at me, the only other AV like program I used is Malwarebytes .. all I can say is its becoming increasingly annoying to the point I know keep it turned off unless I need to run a malware sweep on my PC once a month.

Actually getting to the point where I may just stop using Malwarebytes due to how overzealous its become with its heuristics and false flags, its safe browsing feature is ever worse for being a royal pain in the arse. (I've used malwarebytes for so long I have a permanent lifetime licence for it before they stopped that)

Ill likely keep Nod32 around since its rather benign on the system, doesnt even hog resources like other AVs do. (It barely uses 70mb of memory across its three background services)