Latest file detected as Trojan by AVG, Avast and sandbox
NiraKiwi opened this issue ยท 4 comments
The latest version of the program gets flagged as malicious by VirusTotal (see screenshot) and by my AVG antivirus.
I checked MD5 and it matches with the correct one.
That's strange, I uploaded the exe to VirusTotal before releasing it and there were no detections. Personally, I use Avast and it doesn't flag my copy of the app (which has the same SHA-256 as what you've uploaded).
The app does get a lot of false positive detections because it uses pyinstaller to bundle the python code into an exe; presumably many viruses do the same and so any pyinstaller app just gets flagged as malicious. But I will look into it
Seems like the false positive rate with pyinstaller has gotten way worse recently. It's basically unusable now. I switched the app to use Nuitka and that helped, however I do still get 1 false positive from an AI enterprise security vendor. The correct solution is to rewrite the app in C++ instead of transpiling it but that takes time I don't have right now...
If you are unable to use v1.5 of the app I recommend you download the latest version and see if that fixes your problem. Or you can install Python, clone this repo, and run it directly.