Here you find the option of “ Real-Time Scanning”. To do this, open McAfee and select “ Virus and Spyware Protection”. The only way is to disable the antivirus entirely until the game is updated. McAfee has no way to exclude certain files from its real time scanning. Below are listed different ways to disable the antivirus until you can update your game. It is not unusual for it to mark Steam files as potential viruses and quarantine them. In many situations, your antivirus may be causing the problem. Before resorting to hard measures as mentioned above, we will try troubleshooting for small problems which may be involved.ĭownload and run Restoro to scan for corrupt files from here, if files are found to be corrupt and missing repair them and then check if it fixes the issue, if not then proceed with Solutions listed below Solution 1: Check Antivirus

Although this worked for many users, it is a pretty time-consuming task and it also consumes a large amount of data. The most effective one is to uninstall Steam and all the local game content and reinstall it from scratch. There may be many solutions for this error.

This means that Steam can’t write update files to the hard disk.

Steam error opening file for writing