Possible malware?

[FrozenDragon0]

Ello, so I came across this tool when searching up things relating to porting source engine maps over into the BO3 mod tools and when I first heard of this I figured it sounded neat, however me being the paranoid person I am when it comes to .exe files I did run the corvid.exe through VirusTotal and I didn't like the results:

Again maybe it's just me being paranoid and these are possibly false detections but I just wanted to open this issue on here and get some clarification is all :)

[myuce]

Corvid is written in Python, so in order to make it work on other people's computers without making it mandatory to install Python, I have to use PyInstaller to pack it into an EXE, but most antivirus programs don't like that kind of stuff. I don't really think the executable contains anything harmful to your computer, but if you still have any concerns, you can install Python on your computer and the libraries I used to write Corvid and run it without packing it into an executable.

[FrozenDragon0]

Corvid is written in Python, so in order to make it work on other people's computers without making it mandatory to install Python, I have to use PyInstaller to pack it into an EXE, but most antivirus programs don't like that kind of stuff. I don't really think the executable contains anything harmful to your computer, but if you still have any concerns, you can install Python on your computer and the libraries I used to write Corvid and run it without packing it into an executable.

Thanks for clarifying, I do also have an old shitty laptop I don't use nor care about anymore, so I suppose I could use that to run the program aswell.

[kungfooman]

Thanks for clarifying, I do also have an old shitty laptop I don't use nor care about anymore, so I suppose I could use that to run the program aswell.

As a rule of thumb, don't trust anything.

• If you use Linux, you can create restricted user accounts e.g.
• In general use any kind of VM (e.g. VMWare) to run applications, so everything you test/run only has a limited scope of potential harm
• If you use Windows, you can use SandBoxie

[FrozenDragon0]

Thanks for clarifying, I do also have an old shitty laptop I don't use nor care about anymore, so I suppose I could use that to run the program aswell.

As a rule of thumb, don't trust anything.

• If you use Linux, you can create restricted user accounts e.g.
• In general use any kind of VM (e.g. VMWare) to run applications, so everything you test/run only has a limited scope of potential harm
• If you use Windows, you can use SandBoxie

Fully aware hehe, my bad history of downloading random exe's years ago is what's made me sketch of random exe's now.