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Windows EXE triggering antivirus false positives #1477

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@PeterSurda

It seems to happen with the 32bit version only. You can verify it by uploading the binary to https://www.virustotal.com/. Tests I did a couple of years ago indicated that this may be triggered by the PyInstaller bootloader, which is use by some malware. Recompiling the bootloader seems to have fixed it but I haven't done recent tests, and the new cross-compiled binaries seem to trigger it again.

It only happens with very few of the AV engines. I had tried submitting false positive removal requests, but in particular the Chinese ones don't have a working method for that.

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  1. ektacis commented on Jul 2, 2019

    @ektacis
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    Will check it

  2. bochen2027 commented on Jul 8, 2019

    @bochen2027

    so this version is safe to use or no?

  3. PeterSurda commented on Jul 8, 2019

    @PeterSurda
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    @Hydrogenpi yes, especially the development snapshots.

  4. added this to the v0.6.4 milestone on Aug 27, 2020
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