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Windows flagging file as a virus Sticky

A topic by DogHolder created 41 days ago Views: 607 Replies: 4
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When downloading or unzipping windows and chrome see's it as a dangerous virus

same for me

Developer (2 edits)

Not sure why it's doing this, but can confirm that my laptop thinks the same thing when downloading it. Nothing's been changed in the files though, so can confirm it should be fine.


EDIT: Evidently the way downloads and .Exes work with windows is that once they hit a certain download threshold, they get logged, and since it's a smaller download size with a large burst of downloads, it probably is getting falsely flagged as a virus. 

Scanning both the original zip and the downloaded zip on my laptop with Bitdefender says both are clean.

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looks like it was my browser flagging it since windows defender's scan showed nothing

Developer (3 edits)

Going to sticky this topic since I have a feeling this'll be a recurring issue at this rate. For anyone who's looking at this trying to determine whether it's safe to download, the only things in the zip file are the game's EXE, and the .pck file, both of which were created by Godot Engine on export, zipped, and uploaded directly. There isn't anything in there that should be remotely dangerous.

I don't think that you can see download statistics outside of the developer dashboard, but the game recently passed 5k downloads in about 2 and a half days (yay), but I wouldn't be surprised if this set off an alarm bell somewhere since the EXE isn't a signed one. Apparently you can send in files to Microsoft to have them scan and whitelist them (signing it), but it costs like a hundred bucks and I don't really have the money for that, nor do I want to spend the time or embarrassment sending Microsoft a furry vore game.

Also going to look into exporting an HTML version so that it can alternatively be played in browser without needing to download it. I'd hate for people to miss out just because windows gets spooked by a zip.