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Surfshark is a monster

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I have had my MCE wrecked by Surfshark ( now removed ) I need to reinstall MCE for XPlane,  I can't find the files for MCE, your links don't seem to work.

 

Dudley

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2 hours ago, dbrooke said:

I have had my MCE wrecked by Surfshark ( now removed ) I need to reinstall MCE for XPlane,  I can't find the files for MCE, your links don't seem to work.

 

Dudley

As stated on website, download links can be obtained by writing to [email protected]

Could you explain what Surfshark did? Thanks

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Surfshark now has an antivirus which identified MCE as a virus and basically removed it.  It did have a dialog to restore things, but that just didn't work.  I couldn't click any control, so I consigned it to the void, where it deserves to be. Expensive mistake! But X-Plane comes first.

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On 11/27/2025 at 11:24 AM, dbrooke said:

Surfshark now has an antivirus which identified MCE as a virus and basically removed it.  It did have a dialog to restore things, but that just didn't work.  I couldn't click any control, so I consigned it to the void, where it deserves to be. Expensive mistake! But X-Plane comes first.

Not just Surfshark. A lot of those free anti-virus packages try to impress you by throwing false positives. In MCE case, because they cannot analyze mce.exe (it is a protected executable for obvious reasons), they discard it as a possible virus.

Here is a website where youi can submit a file if you have any doubt.

VirusTotal - Home

They will check the file against 70 AV packages.

You'll notice that out of the 70, there will always be the odd AV package that would flag any exe as potential malware.

If the vast majority sees it as clean, it's a false positive.

 

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