patchzyy / WheelWizard

WheelWizard, Retro Rewind Launcher
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False positive Trojan Virus on download #19

Closed Whailed closed 1 month ago

Whailed commented 1 month ago

I downloaded the latest wheel wizard file (1.2.0 WheelWizard.exe 88.2 MB) and when I run the program, my antivirus (kaspersky) catches that there is a trojan file downloaded. What the fuck dude

WantToBeeMe commented 1 month ago

Yes we are aware of this, its a false positive some people get when downloading the exe. We are looking at how we can add a code signing certificate to the project that we dont get this false positive anymore. But for now we manually submit each version to be checked and be whitelisted, but that still takes a few hours/days for each new version.

Note that this is just a hobby project of ours and we never expected it to grow like this. Because of this we never actually thought about getting a certificate like this untill recently.

Anyways, its good that you are cautious point something like this out, since even tho i now say its a false positive, you never know if its actually true. Its the internet after all

patchzyy commented 1 month ago

If you dont fully trust the program, you may always look through the source-code, run the build.bat yourself and run it through the same anti-virus (it will trigger the same triggers)

edit: I ran the program through kaspersky and it doesnt flag it