About a month ago, I used PyInstaller and Inno Setup to produce an installer for my Python 3 script. My AVG Business Edition AntiVirus just started complaining with today's update that the program ...

Every time I go to build any project in Visual Studio 2022, all I get in the buil output is: Build started... 1>------ Build started: Project: ConsoleApp7, Configuration: Debug Any CPU ------ T...

I'm building a web application in which I need to scan the user-uploaded files for viruses. Does anyone with experience in building something like this can provide information on how to get ...

We are writing a code to do on-demand scan of a file from C# using Windows Defender APIs. [DllImport(@"C:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MpClient.dll")] public static extern int WDStatus(out boo...

I'm trying to do a virus scan on uploaded files. I have no control over the installed virus scanner, the product hosted by multiple parties with different scanners. I tried the following library ...

I'm testing simple Go program on Windows 8 with SublimeText3 (GoSublime plugin) go run -v example.go and before run it's being compiled inside ..AppData\Local\Temp.. directory. My antivirus prog...

I need to implement anti-virus on-access scanning solution for files inside docker containers using open-source software. Clamav On-Access works fine but have some requirements and limitations: r...

I am currently having an issue with ClamAV and freshclam on Centos 6.9. I have the last Clam engine 0.99.2, and a working internet connection. Even if I run the # freshclam -v command ( it only re...

I made a simple GUI (wxpython) application (some static text, buttons, comboboxes etc) and made exe file with pyinstaller, but the Avast antivirus says it's a virus. How can I fix this?

I don't know why, but I've had no problem before and now all of a sudden, this really old, terrible, newbie program that I wrote a long time ago, triggers Malwarebytes... :( This question is not a...

I created a default Dev-C++ project and instead of the usual return 0;, it had return EXIT_SUCCESS; and upon compiling and running it, I was alerted by my antivirus that the executable was a virus....

I am trying to prevent that my application (an installer) will not be blocked by Windows SmartScreen Protection. I use BitRock and I signed my installer manually but I have always this probl...

I have an AntiVirus false positive problem of my exe file generated using PyInstaller, by searching i found this answer witch consist of recompiling the bootloader and i just can't get it done. Thi...

I Have developed a application using python 3.6 and have built it as a exe using pyIntaller. The exe is blocked by many well know Anti Viruses as a trojan/virus. Form the past 2 days of research, I...

I have to buy a code-signing certificate, for signing Win32 applications, and I was considering whether to pick an EV one. The advantages of EV certificates I was able to find are: Immediate Sma...

I had installed a c++ compiler for windows with MinGW. I tried to make a simple program: #include <iostream> using namespace std; int main() { cout << "Hello World!"; retur...

When I obfuscate my application the antivirus gives a virus alert for the obfuscated application. What can I do to avoid this? I am using Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Reactor 3.9.8.0 on Windows XP...

I am attempting to ensure files which get uploaded to S3 do not contain malware or malicious scripts before moving the file into a more secure part of the infrastructure (another S3 bucket in a sep...

I've developed a console application that does a lot of routines, but the Antivirus detected it as a malware of type Gen:Variant.Ursu.56053. How can I fix this without touching the antivirus...

we are developing an anti-virus, I'm trying to find out how can we tell the operating system -windows XP in this case- that our software is an anti-virus. I want that the OS recognize our software ...

Windows Defender and AVG/Avast pickup our software application as a virus/false positive everytime we release. We have a code signing certificate and add taggant as well. Every time we release the...

We are designing an Azure Website which will allow users to Upload content(MP4,Docx...MSOffice Files) which can then be accessed. Some video content we will encode to provide several differing qua...

I would like to use anti virus integration with my .net application when uploading files using the application. Has any anti virus API available for .Net?

I have a problem with my antivirus. AVG added a new feature called Cybercapture which blocks every of my programs. When I run my application using the debugger it holds it and then restarts. It is...

Your anti-virus program might be impacting your build performance. Android Studio checked the following directories: C:\Users\user.name\.AndroidStudio3.5\system C:\Users\user.name\Documents\app-...