I was trying to play today but i noticed that my antivirus program, Sophos, is detecting one of the files as a virus or malware. Specifically, the file stub.dll file in the game file folder. I'm a little concerned since there shouldn't be viruses in League of Legends so is something wrong or is Sophos too sensitive?
Got the same issue today after LoL patched.
My Sophos Anti-Virus is doing an On-Access-Scan whenever I am running RiotClientServices.exe and detects stub.dll as malware. This prevents me to connect to a game after starting any type of game. What follows is an endless loop of showing "RECONNECT" button and "Game is still in progress...".
Possible solution could be to add stub.dll file as an exception to an On-Access-Scan in Sophos Anti-Virus. I cannot try this, since my Sophos Anti-Virus is configured with a firm-policy, which makes me unable to configure On-Access-Scans.
I have tried solving this by making an exception in On-Demans-Scans, but it is not working. That is how I realised I have made an exception in the wrong scan.
Maybe this helps someone.
Got the same Problem today ffs is this ? Riot pls ..
Also have sophos, same issue. Tried multiple ways to authorize, no luck. Just get to hit the reconnect button continuously...
If u dint do this the anti-virus will block u to play the game.
Same for me. We noticed this issue starting 12/6/19. Sophos appears to be blocking C:\Riot Games\League of Legends\Game\stub.dll it thinks that it matches "Mal/EncPk-AAL" signature. I've tried whitelisting (exception) the lol directory path, and exe in the C:\Riot Games\League of Legends\ and the stub.dll specifically, but it does not appear to fix this issue.
Same problem, key solution is where you add the exception: From main menus: Configure-->Anti-Virus-->On-access Scanning-->Exclusions works! (From Home: Configure Anti-Virus and HIPS--> Authorization Manager does NOT work.)
Note giving authorizations does nothing, you need to add an "EXCLUSION."
Good luck, hope that helps.
Sophos blocks C:\Riot Games\League of Legends\Game\stub.dll ... never had a problem here ... why now ?
This is a Sophos issue that starts when you actually start LoL. There is a stub.dll file that gets "cleaned" and removed by Sophos that then doesnt let the game actually launch after Champ select. For me here was the location (C:\Riot Games\League of Legends\Game\stub.dll). You will need to do what Acanthophis91 mentioned below. Open Sophos, then at the Top go Configure>Anti Virus>On-access scanning; then Exclusions tab>Add>Item Type: File>Enter where you stub file is located like I pasted above. This should fix the issue.
There has always been viruses in league, Why do you think the game is free to play?
