qpc.exe detected as virus

[Creator1xc]

Hello,

My antivirus has detected a "ML PUA" in qpc.exe. I cant create a solution without this. Can somebody help me? Is any there a fix?

[untodesu]

Anti-virus software (like Avast for example) tends to be really "xenophobic" against executables with signatures it doesn't recognize. In that case that's the Python runtime inside of it.

For now there are the following solutions:

• Put full QPC source code somewhere in devtools (repo - the branch also matters, be sure to use rename) and modify the generation scripts to run python devtools/..../qpc.py
• Add qpc.exe to your anti-virus' ignore list and restore the file (git checkout devtools/bin/qpc.exe)

If none of the specified solutions works out, I will add a workaround with scripts calling python directly.

The sole reason why QPC is packed into an executable like this is to provide people with a singular executable that doesn't require Python to be installed anywhere in the system.

[untodesu]

So it turns out "ML PUA" detects non-malicious software as well - I was right: the antivirus just doesn't trust the user in that case and marks anything that doesn't look familiar as Potentially Unwanted Application