Way to ensure that my antivirus is flagging a false positive

So I recently bought Tom Clancy's Splinter cell and Splinter cell: Chaos theory on Steam. While the games work perfectly, as soon as I run them, my antivirus flags them as keyloggers and blocks them(you know where I am getting at), thus disabling all inputs to the game(except the arrow keys, which aren't prudent to be used in conjunction with a mouse).

The issue is easily solved by disabling my antivirus' anti-keylogger feature, but, I am concerned about the off chance that my antivirus is flagging a truly malicious app(no offense ubisoft)

I run a Windows 10 machine with Quick Heal being my antivirus.

So, I have 2 questions-

  1. Has anyone else faced this problem too?
  2. If yes, what were your findings(i.e. was this game safe, or is there something fishy here?)

Thanks for answering


Solution 1:

The game you've mentioned, has 1833 reviews on steam with its overall review being very positive and is present since 2003(Stats for Splinter Cell). And, paid software doesn't usually have malwares hidden in them. This makes me feel like the game can be trusted. Also, some other people also faced this issue, while using QuickHeal.

Solution 2:

Quick Heal Total Security review is not very enthusiastic.

The best way to check for a false positive by your antivirus is to check the flagged file using the website Virus Total, to compare with many other antivirus products. If none of the main antivirus products flags your file, you may ignore the warning as being a false positive.