Unauthorized File encryption

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the_rageguy
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Unauthorized File encryption

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I received an error
https://imgur.com/a/GSCqTp3

Is it me?

ETA: I was playing on steam, but downloaded 1.1.1 experimental on PC.
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Re: Unauthorized File encryption

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the_rageguy wrote: ↑Wed Nov 25, 2020 6:37 pm Is it me?
Yes; that's what ever anti-virus software you seem to be running. It thinks the Factorio exe is encrypted in some way (it's not). That, or there's something else on the computer that's attempting to encrypt the file (typically a virus)
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