Was working fine alll day till the launcher started forcing my pc to go offline and after i fixed that windows defender treated it like a virus and now i can't use it anymore :/
You need to go into your OS's security center and tell it to make an exception for the file. There might also be an option where it flagged it and you can tell it to "Allow on Device".
Er... The launcher seems to cause problems for me too. I put it in the root folder for AC8 and when I tried to launch the game through the special Launcher: - My wifi was turn off until I had to manually turn it back on - Now, the launcher has created a virtual CD-Drive and tries to launch at every windows startup. And whenever I try to launch it through the virtual CD-Drive, nothing happens and the launcher and its virtual driver disappears. Anyone else with these issues?[quote2]
Not exactly these symptoms, but I did get the beeps, screen flashes, and it launched World of Warcraft Forever Beta 3 times on top of itself somehow. It's really very hacky and shady.