[Flinzy]

Hi,

Lately I've been trying out stuff in C# with WFA's and
I've made something that I wanted to share with some people.
Now, I found a .exe in the debug/release folder which contains the full program.
But whenever I share this file through Drive/Dropbox/Gett/Puush/etc. to a person,
he will get a lot of virus warnings from i.e. Google Chrome, Windows Defender and other anti-virus software.
I understand that a naked .exe is an extreme 'red flag', so my question to you is,
how do you share your projects without telling people to ignore 3 virus warnings :).

Regards.

[GuRuHaX]

Compress the exe into a zip / rar file.(password locked can be usefull)
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[MikaDev]

Lol I'm wondering the same thing, really. I have an application that literally only makes a few webrequests and it still has like 9 VT detections.. Also, zipping it doesn't really solve the issue. If there's a virus scannwr installed on the downloader's PC, that will start complaining about detections as soon as you unzip the thing.

[Odus]

Is the assembly obfuscated? That sets off a lot of AVs since idiots like to use them for their malware.

[Flinzy]

Is the assembly obfuscated? That sets off a lot of AVs since idiots like to use them for their malware.

No not at all. I'm not even connecting to the internet or making a webrequest. Maybe my keyDown events trigger the AVs?

[GuRuHaX]

What Av's are triggering?
I have an exe that logs every key (with key up) and nothing is saying anything...

What else is this app doing ?
Going to special folders or anything with acces privileges?

There must be something thats triggering it...

Can be a false positive,
AV may have found some chunk of code that matches a virus, and aren't smart enough to distinguish. I would suggest contacting the specific AV providers and getting them to whitelist you if your app is really clean that should not be a problem.

You can always install the Av's that are complaining and check what part of your code the trigger on if your lucky you will be able to find something.


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[BahNahNah]

Chrome detections are not always virus detections, it can be that you are downloading it from an untrusted website.
Also, what detections are you getting?