Hi
My own project detected as Trojan on stupid Windows 11. Any idea?

Maybe fasm infected or what?

Overzealous AV.

Your options are to rewrite/reorder/change your code.

Or delete your AV.

Note that malware writers can do exactly the same to stop it triggering, so it brings into question the usefulness of AVs.

Hmm..
Could you explain what is AV? AudioVideo?

AntiVirus.

But that is default Windows Defender and I want my project to be easily used for anyone.
What kind of my code can be detected as that Trojan? I'm confused really. All I do is COM via audio devices, playback and stream to device. That was working for past year no problem until I tried it now.

I experienced it from Day 1 since I started FASM programming.

See My simple compiler generates an EXE identified as trojan

It is useless to submit to Microsoft for whitelisting, because it doesn't change their detection algorithm.

Like someone suggested in the thread above, might be useful to make the code bloated?

Perhaps add this somewhere in the .code section?


Of course this is not always practical for our programs.

That was my previous engine project and new one doesn't have that issue yet until I integrate all things together. Will see but I'm still surprised. Thanks Flier-Mate, I'll keep it in mind.

This and the increasing Windows Store integration are probably the top two reasons not to use Windows 11.

Something that might help is to add an exclusions to Microsoft Defender, but certainly not an option for anyone that might use your software.

I hate windows 11 same as 8-10 because of stupid mobile-choppy-touch-interface. But I had to moved to it for software support. And yes I have to make my project to be compatible for new generation.
But to be honest I have to notice the sound have MUCH BETTER quality on 11 instead of previous windows. Even my old project sounds perfect on it:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/stereo-to-7-1-converter/

I have the same problem with Hobby BASIC in Windows 10. Badly, I stopped looking for solutions, they seem to don't last. But It's my personal fun project and i don't care much. In Windows 10, real time protection won't even let me download it from the fasm forum. And that happens sometimes, not always. How to explained this?

Try to sign thour app even with untrusted certificate. AV usually skip signed ones.

If true then that would speak to how dumb AVs are.

But doesn't that then give another problem with Windows complaining that the binary is untrusted when anyone tries to run it?