When I try to launch the game, I get the message that Windows is searching for the .exe file. Where did my game go?
We have had many reports of various anti-virus programs falsely reporting a virus in our games, and what you are seeing is likely the result of your anti-virus software placing the .exe file for the game in quarantine. All of our game downloads are virus-free when they are downloaded from our server. If your computer is known to be free of viruses, other than the report of a virus in our game, it is likely a "false positive" being reported by your anti-virus software. Many people have recently reported occurrences of anti-virus programs notifying them that game software is infected with a virus. These anti-virus programs are apparently falsely identifying viruses in the affected games and are placing them in quarantine. We have also seen our anti-virus software quarantine some of our games on test machines because of a supposed virus, when there is no virus. According to the help information of one prominent maker of anti-virus software:Rarely, a file that does not contain a virus is detected as infected. This might happen because a particular virus definition is designed to catch every possible variation of the virus. Because the virus definition must be necessarily broad, the software sometimes reports that a clean file is infected.
When this happens, the game's .exe file is typically placed in quarantine by the anti-virus software, rather than being deleted, and can be recovered by referring to the help information for your particular anti-virus software. Since the procedures vary with different anti-virus programs, we are unable to provide specific steps for recovering files from quarantine.