[Interest] virus warnings

[Jason H]

> Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2016 at 7:58 PM
> From: "Sze Howe Koh" <szehowe.koh at gmail.com>
> To: Jocala <jocala at jocala.com>
> Cc: "interest at qt-project.org" <interest at qt-project.org>
> Subject: Re: [Interest] virus warnings
>
> On 9 December 2016 at 07:28, Jocala <jocala at 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.