I am a paranoid person and downloaded the zip file of the game decided to check it before running on Virus Total (with everything so do), where I gave me only one antivirus jiangmin that it is a Trojan. Can you give some comment on this issue?
We would never include any harmful material in our game intentionally, and our partnership with itch.io has helped to keep our software secure. we speculate that this is either a false error, or the service you are using is intentionally giving a false read in order to incur a payment. in any case, thank you for bringing it to our attention, we will investigate carefully.
Im honestly the only person with access to the games code, and i don't know the first thing about viruses, but idk. could something have attached itself to the file without my knowledge?
Getting something attached to a compiled program without knowledge is possible but very unlikely.
Sites like virustotal should be used with some discernment. If 1 out of 70+ scanners indicates a problem, the likelihood of a false positive is high.
It's likely part of renpy itself being claimed. Nearly all programs (open source has it worse) have some rate of false detection, which is solved in various ways, like lodging an issue with the companies (https://github.com/renpy/renpy/issues/5314) . Renpy has had false positives a few times. Around 2021, the 32-bit exe was flagged because the mingw linux-to-windows compiler used had the style of calling in it's compiled output generally flagged by some scanners (made worse by a bug in the hash calculation for the compiled file renpy used).
Indeed, if you go to Renpy's download site: ( https://www.renpy.org/latest.html ) , download the latest .exe version, and immediately check that, it comes up with the exact detection you're seeing.
Perhaps.
I don't want to get too deep into a discussion on someone's game forum, heh. Ultimately, make your own call for what makes you feel comfortable.
For fun, I tested a few things on virus total in the last few minutes. The following are detected as viruses right now:
- VLC media player (64bit) Windows- vlc-3.0.20-win64.exe
- Firefox browser 64-bit Windows installer - Firefox Installer.exe
- Drobbox 64-bit Windows desktop installer - DropboxInstaller.exe
- 7zip Windows 64-bit beta version installer - 7z2404-x64.exe
- Winrar 32-bit Windows installer - winrar-x32-700.exe
- GoG Galaxy installer for 64-bit Windows - GOG_Galaxy_2.0.exe
- Notepad++ 32-bit installer - npp.8.6.5.Installer.exe
Jiangmin is an antivirus known for fairly common false positives unfortunately. One of the first results when searching it is in regards to one, and it has shown to be somewhat unreliable in regards to them. We assure you there's no Trojans in the game, and that SlushyAnimals is the only one with access to the game files