[Interest] virus warnings

[Jocala]

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 <jocala at jocala.com> wrote:

> My program is a statically built exe.
>
> On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 10:10 PM, Jason H <jhihn at gmx.com> wrote:
>
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>>
>> > 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.
>>
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