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[ Question] Pysimplegui blocked as a virus

Open egm3387 opened this issue 2 years ago • 3 comments

Type of Issue (Enhancement, Error, Bug, Question)

Question

Operating System

windows 10 and 11

PySimpleGUI Port (tkinter, Qt, Wx, Web)

Versions

Version information can be obtained by calling sg.main_get_debug_data() Or you can print each version shown in ()

Python version (sg.sys.version)

3.11.7

PySimpleGUI Version (sg.__version__)

4.60.5

GUI Version (tkinter (sg.tclversion_detailed), PySide2, WxPython, Remi)

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Years Python programming experience

Years Programming experience overall

Have used another Python GUI Framework? (tkinter, Qt, etc) (yes/no is fine)

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Detailed Description

Creating a .exe file with pyinstaller the antivurus blocks the exe file as it was a virus, that is creating consern into the common windows user. How is it possible to avoid that 143.42.125.232:5353 upgradeapi.PysimpleGUI.com is called ? as this is useless for an exe file already frozen.

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egm3387 avatar Dec 12 '23 14:12 egm3387

PyInstaller and other .EXE files are frequently flagged as potential viruses. AVast has done this for as long as I've used PyInstaller. Do a search to see the experience others have had. Perhaps there's a setting in pyinstaller that can help. It's not a PySimpleGUI-unique problem....

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PySimpleGUI avatar Dec 12 '23 16:12 PySimpleGUI

You can learn more about our previous investigation into the problem in this issue:

https://github.com/PySimpleGUI/PySimpleGUI/issues/4595

PySimpleGUI avatar Dec 12 '23 16:12 PySimpleGUI

You may also want to look through the PyInstaller project's responses to this issue...

https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/issues?q=is%3Aissue+virus+is%3Aclosed

We're interested in learning more if you find something from the PyInstaller project so please stop back in for an update if you run across a solution.

PySimpleGUI avatar Dec 12 '23 16:12 PySimpleGUI