To those of you who have had their PC version of Azure Striker Gunvolt flagged as having a virus, we have some information for you.
We have looked into this extensively, and came to the inclusion that this is a false positive indication from these antivirus programs. Before anything goes live on Steam, gets encrypted, etc., we run the program through over 50 different types of virus detection programs, and we have never had any issues. Something that has happened during the encryption process (we use official Steam tools for this process) is producing a result that is triggering antivirus programs to identity the program (gv_win.exe) as a Trojan.
We can officially say with great confidence that there is no virus attached to the game, and that this is a simple case of a false positive reading. This is a pretty rare scenario from what we have seen, however, in a future update we will include counter-measures to prevent this from happening again. We apologize for any inconvenience caused by this situation, and hope that you will continue to enjoy Azure Striker Gunvolt.
If your copy of Azure Striker Gunvolt:STEAM is being flagged, most antivirus programs have the ability to “whitelist” a program. Using that feature will prevent the program “gv_win.exe” from appearing on the scan results as a Trojan. While I only have the 3DS version, I get the feeling that using the “whitelist” (it usually is named as something related to this or ignoring a program) is a suitable workaround until the countermeasures are in place. For details, and to find out what your antivirus program calls the “whitelist”, consult your antivirus program. Do not fall for the false positive. Most antivirus programs can block anything that has been removed by them. (If you accidentally did so, disable your antivirus before redownloading. Re-enable it afterward.)