Comment by helsinkiandrew

1 year ago

To be fair to Windows Defender, a PyInstaller binary does look like malware. If it didn’t do this out of the box, it would become a standard way for malware to be distributed very quickly. Unfortunately for every person trying compile or run a valid python program from the net on a Windows PC, there’s a 1000 malware/Trojan instances trying to infect one.

Ideally code signing / validation would be cheaper