Hi, I am posting this here since its the most active forum and would like a quick answer about this. I now that some software is needed to use VAFS5 to make a bridge between fsx and vafs, and the most used is FSUIPC, specially a free version, so I found there is a site called Schiratti that has it but my norton antivirus is saying the site is not safe, that it has two system threats and so I am not planning in taking such a risk, so I am wondering if somebody knows what this is about, if its recent or if it might be a false positive. Also I wonder if there is a good free or cheaper alternative to FSUIPC, or another safe site with the FSUIPC. Thanks.

Hi,

 

http://www.schiratti.com/dowson.html

 

This is the address of the official website. The latest update of fsuipc is from May 9th 2014.

I personnally never got any trouble with that website, but I stopped using Norton years ago for Avast.

 

It may be a false positive from your antivirus.

If you have a doubt, you can go to simmarket (a reseller of the license) and check there the address to the Fsuipc website, it is the same as the one I give you above.

 

Hpe it helps.

As usual, Norton is the biggest virus on your system. That site IS the home site of FSUIPC. And there is no alternative to FSUIPC that i know of. Just use the free version and you'll be ok.

 

 

 

Hi, I am posting this here since its the most active forum and would like a quick answer about this. 

 

Even so, you should post it in the relevant subforum.

FSUIPC works by reading/writing to the FSX.exe's process "live" in memory as it runs - an overzealous antivirus app's real time heuristics scanner may see this as "suspicious" and flag it since there's probably viruses or other malware out there that works in a similar way. This definitely is a false positive - FSUIPC isn't a virus, almost everyone in the sim community uses it.

 

As Cristi said too - Norton or any of the other mass market AV programs like the ones that come preinstalled on prebuilt PCs (McAfee etc) are usually junk and do more harm than good to a gamming/simming machine.

Yes agree with everyone else you need to remove norton off your PC and replace with something like ESET or Avast?

Norton will be crippling your PC and actually will miss most infections

Yes agree with everyone else you need to remove norton off your PC and replace with something like ESET or Avast?

Norton will be crippling your PC and actually will miss most infections

I guess so, it probably eats a couple of frames right?

 

FSUIPC works by reading/writing to the FSX.exe's process "live" in memory as it runs - an overzealous antivirus app's real time heuristics scanner may see this as "suspicious" and flag it since there's probably viruses or other malware out there that works in a similar way. This definitely is a false positive - FSUIPC isn't a virus, almost everyone in the sim community uses it.

 

As Cristi said too - Norton or any of the other mass market AV programs like the ones that come preinstalled on prebuilt PCs (McAfee etc) are usually junk and do more harm than good to a gamming/simming machine.

Yes, I am pretty sure now, however my concern was more about the website and not the program, I think sometimes if a website is left with little maintenance some bad people or even programs could try to place a virus that doesn't have anything to do with the website, so the norton alert is not with the program but the website, before entering it detects potential threats on the google search.

 

 

Get rid of the Norton Paranoia Engine and replace with Microsoft Security Essentials

(perfectly sufficient virus protection, significantly smaller footprint)

and you will have nothing to worry about.

 

You may have to use the 'Norton Removal Tool' by Norton, (which speaks volumes about their product).

 

You can get it, from Norton, here: https://support.norton.com/sp/en/uk/home/current/solutions/kb20080710133834EN_EndUserProfile_en_us

 

The FSUIPC website may look a bit antiquated (like FSUIPC, funnily enough),

but this isn't an indication of infectiousness.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yes, I am pretty sure now, however my concern was more about the website and not the program, I think sometimes if a website is left with little maintenance some bad people or even programs could try to place a virus that doesn't have anything to do with the website, so the norton alert is not with the program but the website, before entering it detects potential threats on the google search.

 

In that case simply don't download anything, even from reputable sites.

 

By the way, is there any record of problem with Schiratti?.

In that case simply don't download anything, even from reputable sites.

 

By the way, is there any record of problem with Schiratti?.

Not worried anymore, but by the way reputable sites don't get threat alerts, and usually if norton says there are threats in a website there is a greater chance that there is something than not, but again I guess Schiratti is fine.

This is the link to his forum where you can also dl the latest version

For fsx 4934A

and for fs9 3999z9a

 

http://forum.simflight.com/forum/30-fsuipc-support-pete-dowson-modules/

 

Regards John

 

 

You may have to use the 'Norton Removal Tool' by Norton, (which speaks volumes about their product).

 

haha - no joke.  That's pretty sad.

FYI, We use ESET Endpoint Security at work and I just downloaded FSUIPC fine, even told ESET to scan it, no problems at all. And we trust ESET above most other off the shelf packages like Norton etc.