On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 9:52 PM, David Cortesi <[email protected]>wrote:
> I am distributing an app built with pyinstaller and a user reported > that his AVG antivirus would not allow him to execute the app because > it "had a trojan." This is surely the same as reported on this list 4 > Sept, see also ticket #619. > One or two days after the false positive reported at October 11 [0] my exe was deemed clean by AVG 2013 free. Used the exe some times since then and all was clear. Just for completion, with AVG updated to today, my exe and the run.exe from pyinstaller 2.0 stayed clean. Could it be that your user needs to update the AVG database ? Normally that is on auto, but who knows. > > In investigating this I installed the latest level of Parallels > internet security on the Parallels VM where I build the windows > version of the app. This AV system (Kaspersky 13.something) also > detects the "Swrort" trojan in > pyinstaller-r2000\support\loader\Windows-32bit\run.exe and runw.exe. > > Surely Kaspersky has some way to report false positives, it may be worth a try. (AVG response was fast, don't know about Kaspersky) [0] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.pyinstaller/5282 Cheers -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PyInstaller" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pyinstaller?hl=en.
