False virus message

[Shlomo Lazar]

Hello,

I created an exe file with the pyinstaller.

I uploaded the exe file to my google drive and shared it with friends.

When my friends try to download the file they get a message "Sorry, this file is infected with a virus".

Any feedback will be highly appreciated.

Thank you,

S. Lazar

[bwoodsend]

False positives are very common I'm afraid - welcome to the world of distributing software. The only thing you can do is report it as such to whichever antiviral software your friends are using (usually Microsoft Defender which is hopelessly unreliable).

[Brendan Simon (gmail)]

I had a similar thing (quite a while ago now).  Via google, I was able to fill in a report on a Microsoft website, upload the exe, which they test in some sandbox environment, and within hours/days the MS antivirus stuff is updated and app was no longer reported as a virus.  This seems to all be automated and fast (assuming your app doesn't do anything funky).

Brendan.

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[Shlomo Lazar]

Thank you very much for your reply.

S. Lazar

On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 4:18 AM bwoodsend <bwoo...@gmail.com> wrote:

False positives are very common I'm afraid - welcome to the world of distributing software. The only thing you can do is report it as such to whichever antiviral software your friends are using (usually Microsoft Defender which is hopelessly unreliable).

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