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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: kevin32 on July 14, 2012, 12:16:21 AM

Title: "ERROR: Could not open file steamerrorreporter.exe" [QUICK FIX]
Post by: kevin32 on July 14, 2012, 12:16:21 AM

Today when launching Steam, the Steam updater might start updating itself, and return error (http://postimage.org/image/c174sf4yb/).

In my experience, Avast antivirus is labeling the steamerrorreporter.exe file as malware and moving it to it's Virus Chest.

To quickly fix the issue without reinstalling Steam, open the Avast interface > click Maintenance > Virus Chest > right-click "steamerrorreporter.exe" > click Restore. Here's an image (http://postimage.org/image/uqu2c0wj5/) of what to do. Avast will put the file back where it belongs.

Now you should be able to launch Steam. Avast is addressing the issue (http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=96034.msg765842#msg765842).

Dismissed.

Title: Re: "ERROR: Could not open file steamerrorreporter.exe" [QUICK FIX]
Post by: Pondus on July 14, 2012, 12:35:59 AM

when you have the file in chest, right click and upload to avast lab as False Positive   ;)

you can add it to chest manually also...if you do it will only be a copy moved to chest