> On 10 Jun 2020, at 14:46, Robin Becker <ro...@reportlab.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm sure this has come up before, but a tiny pyinstaller created exe is being 
> seen as malware by windows 10.
> 
> Is there any way to create simple single file applications which don't get 
> this treatment?

Submit the .exe to Microsoft so they can update the virus definitions to remove 
your false positive.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/filesubmission 
<https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/filesubmission>

I did this for one of my open source projects and Microsoft fixed the false 
problem in a few days for me.

Barry


> 
> The intended users are unlikely to understand how to adjust the scanner to 
> whitelist the application.
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