But what the update-exe does is replacing and adding files - the same thing you do when you pull the new updates folder over the old one?
I thought using exe is only the more elegant (mainstream) solution for people who don´t know how to pull over a folder (yeah, there are a lot of them) or to tinker with registry, startup etc. all of that not needed for an erotic game..........
No. The updater also patches existing files that are changed, and it does that using an xdelta (differential patching) utility. The DOS screen that pops up does that because it is running a .bat file which executes the filecopy of new files, deletes the executable, copies over the new executable, and then it performs the xdelta patching. Before and after all this, it checksums all the files.
This is not as simple as you think. But it makes the updater much smaller, say the new one is 497 MB. It mightbe twice that without the xdelta patching.
nice try. but people professionalised in computer security still advise (actually more than ever due to the increased criminal activity on the internet) using a proper AV (not norton and its partners obv. but a proper AV like btidefender or malwarebytes) . your windows defender is better than it was before, but still has a high fail rate against new malware threats (under 90% compared to 99% for top AV products).
last but not least, the reason as to why false positives are a thing are due to whitelisting. if one file got compromised and known, the whole structure of the file will be blacklisted. an example would be the discord plugin that shows others what game a users is playing right now. that file was compromised and spreaded on the internet too steal data from users. now this plugin has to be whitelisted every time so it won't trigger anymore. virustotal is one of the websites that whitelists files. they are working closely together with AV companies.
dunno where you have to pay 129 dollars per year. i pay like 20 euros for bitdefender (and there is also a freeware product with ads). shits inexpensive as fuck and you get a lot of useful tools with it.
As mentioned, I have never had an actual virus/malware that Windows Defender did not stop. It is actually precisely Bitdefender I use for an occasional scan. It never found anything that Windows didn't stop. Ever. In the past six years or so.
I know that one is cheap but it's one of the very few cheap and honest ones.
You need to check it's CPU usage when it is working on new files, not when it's sleeping.
What Windows does is the same as Chrome (for downloaded files). They halt the files until checked. But the scan does not slow down the system like many other tools do.
PS: Designing games or working with graphics does not make you a computer specialist. At all. This is coming from someone who worked with computers since the early 90's, and also have had his own IT support company for years.
. it can ramp ofc (up to 26% or more if allowed to speed up the process), but never to an extend that the pc cant be used. you can always specify, if your pc is a potato, when you wanna do an actual system scan so you wont slow down during the work. not that you gotta do a frigging system scan ervery fucking day, but you do you i guess.
