I downloaded cheat engine which is NOT a virus but webroot just keeps saying it is. How do I let a program get through webroot?

Let's open this up for more general gaming discussions.  Post the last game you played on your WSA-protected system!
 
Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn
I usually don't like MMO's, but this one is really well done.  The interface is about as close to perfect as you can get in an MMO, and the story isn't too bad.  The graphics leave a little to be desired, and the voice-acting is sporadic and inconsistent.  The dynamics are awesome though, and you can really customize your character to a great extent.  I wish it had voice-chat too.  Overall, it's just a heck of a lot of fun to play though.  Runs smoothly, and WSA has had no impact on it.  It's fully whitelisted, so there aren't even any unknown files for WSA to concern itself with.

Thank you!!! We all had a blast making it!!

Hello clawmountain and Welcome to the Webroot Community Forums.

 
Excellent video it looks awsome and you did a great Job now that you joined here take the time to get to know the community we are a great bunch Staff & Members!

 
Cheers,

 
TH  

Hi,
 
I consider myself an avid pc gamer, and have always left my antivirus solution on while playing (among them webroot of course). I have never experienced any issues with game performance suffering due to antivirus. I would think this is even less likely to happen with Webroot since it uses less pc resources than other AV solutions out there.
 
Although I would expect Webroot to interrupt me from my game if an infection is found, I think other than that it pretty much stays out of the way while I'm playing games. Some programs are a bit annoying because they constantly show pop up windows or other trivial notifications which can cause me to exit the game, but that is clearly no the case with Webroot.
 
I think Webroot is the best anitivirus out there to use with games.

This is my response to how awesome Webroot is for gaming. IT'S EPIC!!!!!!
 
http://youtu.be/EF31fFJVrEU

This is why it is important for PC gamers to use internet security software. 
 
League of Legends US accounts hacked, credit card details could be at risk
 
http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/08/21/league-of-legends-us-accounts-hacked-credit-card-details-could-be-at-risk/

"If you set your settings to alert you rather then to outright block it, then you can always set it to let it slide manually." Johan, that's a perfect solution. What changes would I need to make in order to get these alerts? Are there any other changes to the default settings that you would recommend for a gaming computer? Thanks

"3) Webroot is alot more sensitive than Kaspersky when it comes to flagging game cracks and trainers as being malicious. As soon as I installed Webroot on my system, it flagged several existing game cracks and trainers as being malicious. (Kaspersky had classified these as being clean.)  Further investigation on my part proved these to be false positives, and I had to make exeptions in Webroot to get my games to work "properly."
 

Hello Greekguy have you contacted Webroot support to see if they were truly FP's? Because if they are they can whitelist them for you.
 
Daniel

I, too, am a gamer. I play mostly FPS's such as Battlefield 3 and the odd RTS such as StarCraft 2.
 
I decided to give Webroot a try thinking that my original antivirus (Kaspersky Internet Security) somehow robbed my computer of its performance and caused my games to play at a lower framerate. So, I purchased,  installed and ran Webroot and to my surprise, there was absolutely no difference in the performance of my games: the framerates were identical to those I had using Kaspersky. In otherwords, the game performance was the same, and Kaspersky really didn't slow down my system at all compared to Webroot as the marketing hype wanted me to believe.
 
The differences  I found:
 
1) Webroot's memory footprint was about 4MB while Kaspersky's was close to 100MB. Obviously, this difference in memory usage doesn't make my system any faster when playing games as I've noted above.
 
 
2) Whenever I install a new program onto my computer, the setup process would start up much, much quicker with Webroot than with Kaspersky. As a matter of fact, the startup of any new program would be delayed by about 10sec - 20sec while Kaspersky did whatever checks it does in the background for new programs. There were no such delays with Webroot. BTW, these delays are a one time thing for Kaspersky: there would be no delays to any subsequent start-up of the program and the start-up time (ie, time it took the program to execute once the icon was double clicked) was comparable to Webroot.
 
3) Webroot is alot more sensitive than Kaspersky when it comes to flagging game cracks and trainers as being malicious. As soon as I installed Webroot on my system, it flagged several existing game cracks and trainers as being malicious. (Kaspersky had classified these as being clean.)  Further investigation on my part proved these to be false positives, and I had to make exeptions in Webroot to get my games to work "properly."
 
So, speaking strictly as a gamer, there are really no earth shattering advantages to keep using Webroot over Kaspersky once my subscritpion expires come next year. 
 
 
 

It wont trust me. My PC is purely a gaming machine and WSA has never once given me an hassle. If it does I would be extremely suprised (and would be interest to know what it detected!)

Xcom stole so many hours of my life. Not as many asCommand and Conquer though.