File copying behaviour triggers some antimalware software, why?

Sharkgamedev commented 3 years ago

Investigate and if possible solve the issue where some antimalware software marks the .dll files of the built Ark Backup Handler as a virus.

Sharkgamedev commented 3 years ago

We're in contact with Malwarebytes and the other security vendors who flagged it to resolve this issue ASAP.

Sharkgamedev commented 2 years ago

We addressing this four fold:

We've setup a Continuous Deployment system to automatically create releases and prove the binaries haven't been tampered with from the source code
We're exploring ways to not require administrator privilege's to help fight some false detections
We're of course in contact with them and will continue to upload to them new builds of the app to check
We've implemented an auto updater so new downloads can (optionally) simply happen in the background without 50 virus alerts

Note: This is not just a virus total issue, when running a virus scan on the downloaded version of MalwareBytes it consistently flags the downloaded .exe on my hard drive as a virus. This can be very concerning to users, hence why we've launched this 4 point plan, of which 3 points are already addressed. I imagine taking away admin privilege's will have the biggest impact - it's not good practice in the first place, however this hinges on whether or not we can find a way around it which doesn't look good atm.

I'll update this when I have made contact with the antivirus providers causing problems.

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