saturnsky/saturn_affinity_python

False positives in Windows Defender

saturnsky opened this issue · 2 comments

There is an issue with Windows Defender incorrectly recognizing Saturn Affinity as a Trojan:Win32/Wacatac.* family of malware.

Many people will be concerned by the behavior of Windows Defender, so this issue needs to be solved.

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/f34fc5e50dfc15e4203d41989d5d1704f1620482ebbaae9112181ddc5957c777
Currently, it appears that three antiviruses are falsely detecting Saturn Affinity as malware.

pyinstaller/pyinstaller#5854
There is a comment that this is a PyInstaller issue and that using an older version of PyInstaller may mitigate the issue. I will try this workaround.

Switching the version of PyInstaller to 5.7.0 worked around the issue.