🔒 Microsoft defender thinks my script is a virus

[opal orchid]

@minor saddle

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[latent trench]

That's normal for pyinstaller executables. There isn't much you can do about it.

[ashen axle]

Blame the malware authors who made Pyinstaller's signature suspicious.

[minor saddle]

well Im planning to use it just for my friends which is nice but they kinda dont trust me much in this topic since they know I few times made an actual "dangerous" script (just shuts down your computer)

[ashen axle]

Given malware's effects are potentially irreversible without massive amounts of work or just nuking everything, being suspicious is a good default. You couldn't even realiably prove after that fact that all your code did was shutdown their machine, since your code could have been self-editing.

If they don't trust you, giving them the source, which they can audit, is the best option anyway.

[minor saddle]

yeah except you can see in the script the code they have to guess which would ruin the whole point of making that program

[ashen axle]

You could see that with a PyInstaller executable as well (just with more work).

And you could always make what's being guessed dynamic so it isn't in the source at all.

[minor saddle]

alr thank you

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