My program is a statically linked exe. I have no idea how to do what you're talking about. Additionally, I didn't mention, once the file is downloaded, Windows Defender reports it as clean.
On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 10:41 PM, Jocala <joc...@jocala.com> wrote: > My program is a statically built exe. > > On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 10:10 PM, Jason H <jh...@gmx.com> wrote: > >> >> >> > 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. >> > >
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