Qonquest 2 - A simple strategy game written in D

[Hipreme]

On Thursday, 26 January 2023 at 02:58:03 UTC, Doigt wrote:
> On Thursday, 26 January 2023 at 00:16:09 UTC, Hipreme wrote:
>> WARNING:
>> - Virus scanner activated on windows (but virus free 
>> thankfully), try checking if there is some way to not let that 
>> happen
>>
>> Keep in mind that most people that is going to play your game 
>> is not a computer expert, and everyone I knew freak out in the 
>> idea of getting a virus, this is super important if you wish 
>> to distribute your game.
>
> This is something that always frustrated me back when I was on 
> windows. Sometimes avast or later avg would trigger on my own 
> programs and there was no docs on the internet to make it not 
> happen. It wasn't fun and it wasn't making things more secure, 
> just make people panic blindly and not want to try my games 
> hugh.

I saw some stack overflow issues on that too. I only found 2 
things on internet and it was basically:

1- If you're using mingw compiler, they said to use mingw-w64 
compiler instead and it would make your program probably not be 
detected.

2- Submit your binary to those antivirus softwares for them mark 
your software as a false positive[1]

Those were the 2 things I was able to find. The other thing that 
rings me a bell that could solve that is "Code Signing" for your 
software being identified as yours, probably there's some kind of 
scans involved into doing that for checking if your thing is 
virus free.


[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/filesubmission