Binary flagged as virus

[Monoverde888]

why is virustotal, and windows defender flagging it so much??
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/9fc1eb6e076cadd3f4f97594c0466fb18c1431e10d919224925beece664d2110

[abhishekmj303]

The issue here is that python interpreter is embedded into the executable and it will self extract it and run. That is why it is flagged as trojan. This is a false positive.

References:

• https://github.com/Nuitka/Nuitka/issues/2701#issuecomment-1935899800
• https://www.reddit.com/r/learnpython/comments/13igjrl/nuitka_hello_world_binary_detected_as_malware_why/

So to solve this I have updated the binary to an installer. This should probably solve the problem. Try this release and tell me if it's working: https://github.com/abhishekmj303/ytm2spt/releases/download/v1.0.1/ytm2spt-v1.0.1-windows.zip

[Monoverde888]

it didn’t say anything now, thank you

[mikedude98]

Hi, for me Windows defender did still trigger and remove the executable, even with the installer. I don't know of a fix, I just added an exception, but I thought I would let you know.

Using release v1.0.1, on Windows 11. The screenshot is in Dutch unfortunately)

[abhishekmj303]

@mikedude98 Thanks for letting me know, I think any compiled exe containing python may cause this issue. Instead of that may be I should ship the installer with entire source code with an isolated python environment. I'll reopen this and look into it when I get some time.