my program is being recognized as a virus and idk why
i have just made a program that can decrypt and encrypt files. i dont know why it would be recognized as a virus. i do have a guess however. it might be because of a tempfile that gets created at the C drive or it could be because the program writes to a selected file that the user inputs.
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this is what is being executed to create the tempfile
Certain behaviors like generating temp files without clear purposes might be identified as malware or virus. Commercial software vendors buy code sign certificates to sign their executable, and that eliminate the false positive. You can do the same if you have the budget
is there anyway to bypass this?
You can send it to MS for false flagging https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/filesubmission
Submit a file for malware analysis - Microsoft Security Intelligence
Submit suspected malware or incorrectly detected files for analysis. Submitted files will be added to or removed from antimalware definitions based on the analysis results.
thx