any reason why bitdefender detected it as a malware?

uberhalit / EldenRingFpsUnlockAndMore

A small utility to remove frame rate limit, change FOV, add widescreen support and more for Elden Ring

MIT License

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any reason why bitdefender detected it as a malware? #94

Closed Weemizo closed 2 years ago

Weemizo commented 2 years ago

and also after booting up my pc AV had to clean up system before booting up win10

DubbleClick commented 2 years ago

Because it patches memory in another process (eldenring.exe) and doesn't have a known signature. It's open source with the code being hosted on literally this repository, you're welcome to check and build yourself if you don't trust the tagged release.

uberhalit commented 2 years ago

Because AVs don't actually detect malicious exectuables, all they do is check if an application is manipulating/altering other programs or the system which is why a lot of patchers/cracks get false positives. As already stated the entire source code of this patcher is available (contrary to other tools), you can compile it yourself.