pyinstaller wrong classified as Windows virus

Mats Wichmann mats at wichmann.us
Mon Nov 29 14:34:02 EST 2021


On 11/29/21 12:04, Benjamin Schollnick wrote:
> Windows Defender has a setting to also use “Reputation Scoring”.
> 
> What that simply means is that WDef will report back a hash to microsoft which is then checked to see if it is known.  If it is known, then it has a reputation and based off that reputation Defender will either allow it to run or not.
> 
> But if there is no reputation (eg no one has ever run it), that’s suspicious.  And that’s what you are running into.
> 
> You can submit the EXE to the defender team, which should allow it to operate properly without any issue.
> 
> 	- Benjamin

sure... "that's suspicious". Unless you're a developer compiling your 
own code. In which case every fresh build will be something "unknown". 
You have to set every setting you can find to "developer mode" to help 
with this kind of thing, and sometimes it's still not enough.




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