mhammond / pywin32

Python for Windows (pywin32) Extensions
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Detected Virus Trojan:Win64/Malgent!MSR #2135

Closed FGiacobe closed 9 months ago

FGiacobe commented 9 months ago

Today 2023-10-04 I installed the pywin32 v306 package to generate an executable using the pyinstaller 6.0.0 package and during the process I received a warning that the win32 package contained a virus and then Microsoft Antivirus accused the virus " Trojan:Win64/ Malgent!MSR".

mhammond commented 9 months ago

That's a false positive - unfortunately it probably means someone did create a virus using pyinstaller/pywin32 and they added an overly broad signature to their database.