shadorki / vrc-osc-discord-band

A python osc application to control a notification band on an avatar in VRChat
https://shadoki.booth.pm/items/4467967
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The executable is falsely flagged as a virus or malware #6

Open shadorki opened 1 year ago

shadorki commented 1 year ago

I've heard a couple reports of people stating that the executable is flagged as malware or a virus. Apparently this is a known issue of using pyinstaller to compile the final executable? Of course it is false but to ease the user's minds it may be worth putting in the time to get around being flagged.

After a couple google searches I discovered that adding the icon is part of the slip up. But here are some links to help research:

https://www.google.com/search?q=pyinstaller+exe+is+marked+as+a+virus&oq=pyinstaller+exe+is+marked+as+a+virus&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i22i30j0i390l3.6164j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43777106/program-made-with-pyinstaller-now-seen-as-a-trojan-horse-by-avg https://plainenglish.io/blog/pyinstaller-exe-false-positive-trojan-virus-resolved-b33842bd3184 https://medium.com/@markhank/how-to-stop-your-python-programs-being-seen-as-malware-bfd7eb407a7