Yeah, Avira does seem to detect it as a Virus via Heuristics - which is educated guessing.
And then instantly moves it into Quarantine.

You have to reinstall the .exe, whitelist it in avire and try again.
Edit: Nevermind, whitelisting is no longer a option. In any of Aviras "Options".
so just ...

Thanks, I'll try this and edit if it works for anyone else happen to stumble upon this.

EDIT: I did several things:

1) putting the folder of DW2 into AVIRA exemptions and validate/reinstall and delete the false quarantene (DID NOT WORK)
2) stopping AVIRA (for 10 minutes) (DID NOT WORK)
3 ...

Avira thought it was a virus, and now even the validation from Steam isn't working any more: distantworlds2.exe is missing

Even with putting the DW2 folder into exemptions via avira-config AND reinstalling DW2 it is now completely broken!

Please help!

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Seems like they found them somehow or leftover from the before times. I had a minor with all walkers at game start once.
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Those are "surviving AIs" as stated in the handbook:<br/>
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What savage gives the child the same first name as his family name?!

<t> I second this!<br/>
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When I have "preview" turned on, have to go to the hex view via traffic signs to see, how much logistics point reach a certain asset, because the map view is often not decipherable...<br/>
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Whenever I have "preview" or another LIS-point metric turned on, I want ...

<t> I literally tried to reproduce it for an hour now, it never occurred again (still the same version it happened in 1.04b8).<br/>
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a) Before that it happened about ca. 10 times.<br/>
b) it always involved COMPLETELY transferring all entities from a unit to the SHQ thereby dissolving it and ...

<t> 1.04b8: Happened to me too. There was no need to strategic move though.<br/>
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a) have a unit like hunters tribe militia in capital (I think all militia types might have the problem)<br/>
b) transfer ALL units to SHQ thereby disbanding the unit.<br/>
c) press cancel<br/>
d) CRASH<br ...