False positive Trojan

[UnsureDev33]

I don't believe the code is malicious at least from what I can see. However the exe compiled with pyinstaller seems to flag up the windows defender heuristic. I know a common fix would be adding an exception to your anti virus but it would be good to fix this in the future so every update we don't need to inspect the changes ourselves.

Trojan:Win32/Pomal!rfn is what windows defender will give

[HSLix]

oh，that is annoying. According to google, a digital sign is needed to avoid something like it, which need much money. Is there any other solution with it?

[HSLix]

maybe turning off the defender can be a simple method.

[UnsureDev33]

Yes turning off defender or adding an exception seems to be the best way for now. I can try look to see if there might be a workaround and if so raise a PR but yes seems to be tricky unless we workaround pyinstaller.

The best thing might be adding an explaination in the manual before you get 100 threads in the future talking about this issue

[mkim]

Alternatively, I think the problem can be fixed by rebuilding the pyinstaller bootloader.
Pyinstaller was used to make viruses very often in the past, so the pre-compiled bootloaders get flagged as malicious code because they are often associated with malware.