ESO upsets Sophos AV

ApoAlaia

Good afternoon beautiful people,

It would seem that whatever the ESO executable is up to really upsets my antivirus.

I had to make a specific exclusion for ESO64.exe before because the moment the AV took an interest into whatever this process was doing my game would crash. In the event log it appeared as 'The program eso64.exe version 1.0.0.1 stopped interacting with Windows and was closed'.

That seemed to work until today.

After the update I get this gem instead:

'Kernel32Trap' exploit prevented in ESO

This is the article from the AV publisher on the subject:

https://support.sophos.com/support/s/article/KBA-000007957?language=en_US

What is the new exe up to?

I found myself on the receiving end of a hack when 3CX got compromised by a supply chain attack and started distributing Cobalt Strike infected files to their users (while 3CX themselves maintained that everything was fine and it was a false positive and proceeded to blame Sophos), should I trust ESO this time or is there shenaningans going on here too?

ZOS_Icy

Greetings,

This thread has been moved to the PC Technical Support section, as it is better suited there.

Thank you for your understanding.

ApoAlaia

Sure, but I don't need 'technical support' per se, I just would like to know what ESO64.exe is up to that makes my AV flag its behaviour as concerning enough to warrant blocking its execution that's all.