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by treeform 1229 days ago
About antivirus on Windows, as a person who has shipped a commercial windows app that was regularly hit by anti virus. There is almost nothing you can do except wait. Windows antivirus companies mark your program as a virus when you .exe looks different from anything it saw before. The reports do come down after your .exe is shipped to thousands of computers and users unquarantine it manually. Signing the exe with windows keys or uploading your exe to special white lists does not work! We tried. It's just time and install base. Every update changes the exe and AV would flare up again.

Windows antivirus companies are basically a scam and are worse than the protection they offer. They are more likely to mine Bitcoin ( https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/7/22869528/norton-crypto-min... ) or man-in-the-middle ( https://www.thesafemac.com/avasts-man-in-the-middle/ ). Antivirus companies have become the bad actors they tried but failed to stop. (https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/antivirus-software-1.3668746 )

I recommend Nim does nothing with regards with AV as there is nothing it can do but wait...