Sorry Slipmatt, I haven't ever touched windows 10 so I'm unsure where to even start with that issue >.< I'm hoping someone else will have resolved the issue and ill be able to find something about it which I can direct you too.
With regards to windows essentials going nuts, We always used to have issues with antivirus programs, and the Obfuscator.xx is a new one on me so will have a look into it, in a moment, it used to be something called Thermedia (think that's the correct spelling) As far as I'm aware it was a case that the Exe was written using the same program that lots of viruses were created with (the Thermedia program)
I haven't ever heard of any problems coming from allowing the exe to run (its been on hundreds if not thousands of mir gamer PCs, back when all the servers were running on this file set, every server had the same issue ^.^
we submitted the exe to several different antivirus companies when the server was up last time so they could remove it from their dangerous list. Sophos/AVG were among the companies i forget the others.
Im not sure how to get round the Microsoft essential issue other than either somehow allowing the exe (does it have an exceptions list you can add the exe too?) or disabling Essentials altogether - this might be a bit overkill if you use any of the features. (I tend to avoid microsoft if possible, they just seem to break things
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So, looking into the Windows 10 issue, it seems like there aren't many people using windows 10 for mir lol, but someone had an issue resolved when they set the compatibility to windows vista (which makes no sense to me as vista sucked) but you can give that a try.
You may also want to try giving yourself extra permissions on the particular folder you have the game in, I recall when i first got windows 7 i had issues where the game wouldnt load correctly as i had moved the game folder from another machine, the permissions were a bit screwy - machine one username was admin and machine 2 username was Stuart so i didn't actually have permission to run the files in that particular folder.
With regards to the Obfuscator.xx warning, it appears that is the umbrella name for windows when they are actually saying, "We've found something, we havent got a clue what it is as it appears to have been hidden from us." (what they actually say is ""
This threat has been "obfuscated", which means it has tried to hide its purpose so your security software doesn't detect it.The malware that lies underneath this obfuscation can have almost any purpose."" which i found here https://www.microsoft.com/security/...rTool:Win32/Obfuscator.XX&wa=wsignin1.0#tab=1
So i believe it is still the thermida ( i did have my spelling wrong ;-) ) anyway i found this nugget of info when i googled Thermida again (which kind of makes sense - i assume TheDeath didn't want people cracking his files after he had spent so long working on them.)
"Themida is a software protection product designed to prevent software from being "cracked" and does use encryption, therefore, is very difficult for any anti-virus to confirm one way or another if its malware. Un-fortunately, Themida is highly used by virus writers, keylogger writers, etc., to concel their malware.
So, all in all no one can actually be absolutely certain that when Themida is detected it is malware or a legit product....its your call."
Time for me to finish the support form and then spend a bit of time with Vamp as its our anniversary today and the evening is going to be stolen by Mir
(Ill have another scout about for windows 10 issues, - Could you have a look in your event viewer and see if you can find any errors appearing when you use the exe. (on windows 7 to access the even viewer Control Panel>Administrative Tools> Event viewer. - if its not the same on Win10 google will be your friend ;-) )
All the best
Lone
