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[godleydemon]

Originally Posted by OhZone

Avast didn't like the viewer.exe. Oh, well.

can you tell me what it marked it as? might give me a clue on what in the world it's even seeing as being bad. I think I'll throw my own exe into a tester real fast to see what happens.

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Okay, I figured out what happened here. Avast picks it up as "Win64:Malware-gen" which doesn't tell me alot, Avast has always been kind of vague. But thankfully Microsoft was a little more specific "Program:Win32/Wacapew.C!ml" which gave me a starting point. Turns out, these virus scanners just flag every exe built with pyinstaller. I wrote this all in python and have used pyinstaller before to create my exe's, but I haven't built one in a long while. For whatever reason, virus scanners just flag everything pyinstaller creates. Forcing you to put in for an exception. I'll see what other software is out there so I can build the exe with something that's not going to flag virus scanners.

In case anyone else is wondering or curious. Below are the ones that flagged it and what they see it as.

9/68 security vendors flagged this file as malicious.
Avast: Win64:Malware-gen
AVG: Win64:Malware-gen
DeepInstinct: MALICIOUS
Jiangmin: Trojan.Generic.hunjo
McAfee Scanner: Ti!003B547761AE
Microsoft: Program:Win32/Wacapew.C!ml
SecureAge: Malicious
SentinelOne (Static ML): Static AI - Suspicious PE
Trellix ENS: Artemis!E2680A7DB178

Now this is a reminder. Download things off the internet at your own risk, always have a virus scanner or something between you and what your downloading. My program isn't a virus or malware, but it's my word against the world so to speak and you make your own decisions based on what you see. If you choose to download my program, it'll work and do everything I set it up to do (hopefully, because I'm sure there are some bugs in there lol). It'll probably flag but you can flag it for an exception if you want to run it. I promise it won't do anything malicious, but if anyone still feels uncomfortable with that. They can wait for a few days and I'll try and have a version out that doesn't use pyinstaller and won't flag. I'll try and get a download up of just the databases as well, so you don't even have to use my program if you don't want to. You'll just have to make your own or use a database tool.