pyinstaller wrong classified as Windows virus

[Benjamin Schollnick]

>> Windows Defender has a setting to also use “Reputation Scoring”.
>> What that simply means is that WDef will report back a hash to microsoft which is then checked to see if it is known.  If it is known, then it has a reputation and based off that reputation Defender will either allow it to run or not.
>> But if there is no reputation (eg no one has ever run it), that’s suspicious.  And that’s what you are running into.
>> You can submit the EXE to the defender team, which should allow it to operate properly without any issue.
>> 	- Benjamin
> 
> sure... "that's suspicious". Unless you're a developer compiling your own code. In which case every fresh build will be something "unknown". You have to set every setting you can find to "developer mode" to help with this kind of thing, and sometimes it's still not enough.

Understandable, and Steve Gibson (GRC.com <http://grc.com/>, creator of Spinrite) has mentioned that he has had this problem with every Beta of his applications.

I agree completely with you, but that’s how Microsoft has set things up.

	- Benjamin