why my game detected as virus ?

[chandra123steven]

hello guys i want ask, why my game detected as virus by antivirus?
like smadav,baidu dll

[theCodeCat]

False positive. I've had the same issue with another Renpy game I worked on.

Antivirus programs can only really guess whether a program is harmful and sometimes they guess incorrectly.

[PyTom]

False positive. I've had the same issue with another Renpy game I worked on.

Antivirus programs can only really guess whether a program is harmful and sometimesnearly always they guess incorrectly.

Fixed that for you. Also, you left out the bit where they run in kernel mode, opening your computer up to all kinds of fun security holes.

[manorstories]

Hi,
I am sorry if I re-open an old case.

As an independent developer (my game is an adult game), I have some of my patrons complaining about the .exe flagged as a virus.
I know it must be a hard process to get it solved.

The only thing I can do was to publish a warning on my monthly builds and demos.

Here is a generic version of this text in case you want to use it for your own games.

I hope this will help the community.
Keep doing the good work!

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ANTIVIRUS False Positive detection on our game
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Our game have been coded using Ren'py, a really cool Visual Novel framework !
As Ren'py is using python a few antivirus software detect that as an issue.
Most of all since our game is an indie game in development we suffer from lack of "reputation" as well :-(

If you are using the following antivirus software : they may delete our game .exe files.

Antivirus  :  False positive detection
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AegisLab   :  Troj.Crypt.Zpack!c
Avira      :  TR/Crypt.ZPACK.Gen
Cylance    :  Unsafe
Ikarus     :  Trojan.Crypt
Jiangmin   :  Trojan.Heur.aom
McAfee-GW-Edition : BehavesLike.Win32.PWSZbot.nc
Sophos ML  :  heuristic
TrendMicro-HouseCall : Suspicious_GEN.F47V0722

All others Antivirus / Anti-spyware will work correctly.
Please see this table using 67 antivirus software :
[replace the url by your own virustotal or other online antivirus analysis]
https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/5debe7a73ca0fa7a2404904d1b893f1da6535c98b6434c62abbbf2ac32a4be53/analysis/

All we can suggest is :
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- Create a folder in a location you can find (like C:\SexyGame)
- In your antivirus, find the EXCEPTION parameter and add the folder you just created for that.
- Unzip the game in that folder


Why we can't do anything else ?
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I kindly point that the listed antivirus are mostly free.
Their core business is to "frighten you" so you can "trust" them : "My antivirus is detecting something so it works better than others".
Of course the average user can't check what the detected threat is all about, how the program have performed the analysis and what it does mean.

[IrinaLazareva]

Sometimes, the similar problem arises when you create such objects...

[manorstories]

Thank you,

Without the icon file only 2 "antivirus" are giving a false positive (Cylance and Jiangmin) instead of 8.
I tested it with the last release of Ren'Py 7.1.0.882.

I do hope this will help other creators as well.