Fusion exported .exe virus?

[PaulFoster]

Hi everyone.

I just did a test windows .exe export of a game I'm working on but when I tried to run it, I got virus warning errors
from my antivirus software (defender).

So I got total virus website to scan my .exe file and it threw up a ton of problems!

This computer is only 5 months old and I don't visit dodgy websites or download pirate games,so I'm baffled.
is this a bucketful of false positives or is something odd going on here?

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Edit:- I just scanned my PC with malwarebytes and nothing was found, also scanned the exe and again nothing.
I'm thinking this is a false positive from windows defender and virus total?

[defisym]

Clickteam have fight against false positive since 2020.

1. uncheck compressed runtime (removed in modern builds)
2. check unpacked exe, which will put dlls in sub folder and won't extract them in temp folder

unpacked exe can fix this a bit but not all cases. still got false positives but less than legacy method. Besides, with unpacked exe some DRM wrapper will not break the exe.

[PaulFoster]

Clickteam have fight against false positive since 2020.

1. uncheck compressed runtime (removed in modern builds)
2. check unpacked exe, which will put dlls in sub folder and won't extract them in temp folder

unpacked exe can fix this a bit but not all cases. still got false positives but less than legacy method. Besides, with unpacked exe some DRM wrapper will not break the exe.

Thank you!

[SevenSails]

I've found Yves explanation a while back quite enlightening, and I quote:

"Note that most of those false positives are due to their heuristic engines, that detect viruses before they are known and that seem to get more and more complex as the time passes as they can't seem to be able to fix the problems immediately and definitely as before. Heuristic engines analyze what features a program uses (Windows API, etc), try to get virus signatures in the EXE, etc, and calculate a "possible malware score" based on this information, that will decide if they display an alert or not."

For me, after using unpacked .exe option solved 100% of the cases of false positive as of now.

[PaulFoster]

Thanks for the info

[danjo]

there were certain object to avoid if possible that may trigger this false positive. i think the file object was one... it was mentioned some time back which ones do this