pyinstaller wrong classified as Windows virus

[Barry Scott]

> On 25 Nov 2021, at 09:20, Ulli Horlacher <framstag at rus.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
> 
> When I compile my programs with pyinstaller, Windows classifies them as
> virus and even deletes them!

Microsoft will fix the malware detection if you provide the info they need.

Submit false positive info to: https://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/submission/submit.aspx <https://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/submission/submit.aspx>

I have done this for a false positive in the past and they do resolve the false positive.

Barry


> 
> pyinstaller.exe --onefile --noconsole -i fex.ico fextasy.py
> 187 INFO: PyInstaller: 4.7
> 187 INFO: Python: 3.10.0
> 218 INFO: Platform: Windows-10-10.0.19041-SP0
> 218 INFO: wrote P:\W10\fextasy.spec
> (...)
> 14392 INFO: Copying 0 resources to EXE
> 14392 INFO: Emedding manifest in EXE
> 14392 INFO: Updating manifest in P:\W10\dist\fextasy.exe
> 14533 INFO: Updating resource type 24 name 1 language 0
> 14579 INFO: Appending PKG archive to EXE
> 18836 INFO: Building EXE from EXE-00.toc completed successfully.
> 
> https://fex.flupp.org/fop/ylds7Y9d/X-20211125101112.png
> 
> What can I do?
> 
> Rebooting does not help :-}
> 
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