I made a harmless installer (with Install Creator 2) which installs completely harmless .wav files. Yet my .exe installer is being accused of being dangerous anyways when it (and the files it installs) are completely harmless.
I tried Google search but not much luck. Can I prevent such false claims in the future and if so how? My installer only installs completely harmless files. My .exe was in a .zip folder too (when I downloaded it) and in that .zip there was and is only my harmless .exe installer.
OK so here's the serious response:
usually antiviruses or windows look for some sort of digital signature from the creator, and checks wether or not is a known and trusted developer
well for most apps it doesn't even care, but it does that check for any app that will be installed ( and so be given write-access to the program files folder), just to make sure it isn't some weird software messing with your program files
i'm not sure how you could prevent this though, apart from disabling your antivirus while you install
and now some questions of my own:
• what do you mean by "installing harmless wav files"
• why would you need an installer to get wav files, why not just put those i a zip
• at the end you say the installer was in a zip when you downloaded it, but at the beginning you said you created an installer program with install creator 2
• please tell me what you typed into google search, i'm curious
By harmless I mean no viruses nor other harmful stuff. I searched .exe false positive. I want to see how I can make sure harmless .exe with all its files harmless does not get accused of bein' harmful.
the king is back.
can you run Team Fortress 2 (TF2) on your eMachines computer yet
as lexou said, it's an unsigned file (you're more or less a "basement developer" with no license from Microsoft) so it's probably going to flag the installer every time.
but try using a different software. IIRC 7-zip allows you to make self-extracting archives as an .exe file. Given it's just a *.wav pack you're installing onto the person's computer, you should be able to just get away with that...or even just a ZIP file full of *.wav files. lol
...Actually I know a way to do this.
The Metasploit kit comes with Shikata Ga Nai, you can run a .exe through it to change the footprint for anything that's a known malicious file, so things that an anti-virus checks for as a known virus.
You can also feed in two .exe files, your file plus a known "clean" file, ideally something with a Microsoft signature, and it'll basically modify your file to match the details of the second as closely as possible, including things like signatures, version data, file size and so on.
It's a fairly technical thing to do though, and since it involves installing software for penetrations testing (I'M LOADING MY HACKING TOOLS), I'm not gonna go into details on that front.
Wait
What's labeling your file as "dangerous"?
Is an antivirus going off over your file or are you just referring to a UAC popup when you open the exe?