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Virus Total (false detections)

Bousqi edited this page Aug 20, 2022 · 1 revision

PyInstaller built binaries still generates false positives against VirusTotal 😥.
Refer to this page : Python seen as malware
Long story short, some malwares have been flagged by VirusTotal, while they have been built with PyInstaller. Thus all binaries generated by PyInstaller are flagged. Same applies with other python binaries generator, such as Nuitka.

I do recommend you to generate your own binaries, never trust other sources 😁.
But if you do it, have a check with VirusTotal by yoursleves.

For the release v1.0.5, you'll get the following results with windows binaries:

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