Comment by modeless
1 year ago
I built PyInstaller binaries on Windows a few months ago and had no trouble with Windows Defender at all.
1 year ago
I built PyInstaller binaries on Windows a few months ago and had no trouble with Windows Defender at all.
This was my experience as of two weeks ago using a pyenv-compiled Python 3.12.4 and the latest PyInstaller on a fresh install of Windows 11.
If you used the Microsoft-signed or Python Software Foundation-signed Python binaries, maybe it doesn't trip the Defender alarm, same thing if you used older versions of Python or PyInstaller. 3.12.4 only came out on the 6th.
Yup, it works mostly but not regularly. Did it for a few years for a cross platform proprietary PyQt app with Pyinstaller. Signing helped a lot but the release process was still to submit the binary to a website that checks with most known antivirus software just to be more certain we didn't ship a dud for most windows users. Interestingly, sometimes a rebuild fixed the issue facepalm..