> Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2016 at 7:58 PM > From: "Sze Howe Koh" <szehowe....@gmail.com> > To: Jocala <joc...@jocala.com> > Cc: "interest@qt-project.org" <interest@qt-project.org> > Subject: Re: [Interest] virus warnings > > On 9 December 2016 at 07:28, Jocala <joc...@jocala.com> wrote: > > Windows 10 Defender is rejecting and deleting my QT 5.6 software. I know the > > end-user workarounds, and I know how to submit false positives. But this is > > happening every freaking time I do a new release. Software is deleted, users > > accuse me of distributing a virus. > > > > Is there anything I can do to prevent this from happening? I'm using Qt 5.6 > > and mingw49_32 > > You are not alone, e.g.: > https://us.battle.net/forums/en/hearthstone/topic/20752237958 > > There's not much that can be done on the Qt side. Some ideas that could help:
> 1. Add a prominent notice to your website to alert users about this > known issue and encourage them to update their virus definitions, so > that they don't get a nasty surprise That's what the malware author would say!!! Is it your exe or a DLL? Can you do a static build? An extreme measure would be to identify the segment containing the signature and break it up. _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
