Epic Games Is Investigating an Issue With Fortnite Caused by Norton Antivirus [UPDATED] UPDATE \u2013 08\/06 1:56 PM PT A Norton Spokesperson has reached out to let us know that the issues causing some Norton Antivirus users to not be able to log into Fortnite have been resolved \u2013 \u201cWe have identified and resolved the matter affecting some of our customers\u2019 ability to log into Epic Games\u2019 \u201cFortnite.\u201d Epic Games is looking into an ongoing issue that has been causing login issues for Fortnite players since a recent Norton Antivirus update. The antivirus software has reportedly been detecting Fortnite, or Unreal Engine 4, as a trojan file and blocking the game from running. Epic released a short statement saying \u201cwe are aware that some players are experiencing login issues after receiving an update from Norton Antivirus\u201d and that they are in the process of helping Norton\u2019s employees with their investigations. If you don\u2019t want to wait for Norton to fix the issue, you can exclude the pakchunk0-windowsclient.sig file from Norton\u2019s auto protect or quarantine zone. Natewad on Reddit explained how to do this in one of the numerous threads related to the infuriating issue: It is currently unknown why Norton\u2019s software is making the mistake of detecting the file as a trojan but it appears to have affected thousands of players worldwide. Norton has also acknowledged the issue after Max Rayner on Twitter said \u201cMillions of over-anxious children around the world want to know: do either of your companies have a comment on why Norton flags one of Fortnite\u2019s files as a Trojan?\u201d A Norton support employee responded with \u201cSorry about the trouble. We are currently looking in to this. Will get back to with more updates\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Epic Games Is Investigating an Issue With Fortnite Caused by Norton Antivirus [UPDATED] UPDATE \u2013 08\/06 1:56 PM PT A Norton Spokesperson has reached out to let us know that the issues causing some Norton Antivirus users to not be able to log into Fortnite have been resolved \u2013 \u201cWe have identified and resolved the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}