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diogo-webber / vox-launcher

A Don't Starve Together dedicated server launcher.
MIT License
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Virus detected on download #9

Closed KainMorgen closed 1 week ago

KainMorgen commented 2 months ago

Chrome automatically deletes the archive on download, as it detects a virus hidden inside. Screenshot in German: 83v8GlC

diogo-webber commented 2 months ago

Hi Kain, thanks for reporting.

I've just added a section to the README explaining why that is happening.

From README.md:

Windows Defender is flagging Vox Launcher as a threat, why is this happening?

The tool called Pyinstaller, which is used to bundle the app into an executable, is also used by people who actually make malicious software. Windows Defender recognizes some similar patterns in the executable and includes Vox Launcher as a threat.

Usually creating a new version solves this temporarily, but there's not much to be done in the long term other than rebuilding the whole app in another programming language, which I don't have the time or desire to do at the moment. The only thing you could do is to add an exclusion to Windows Defender.