I have an application I wrote for my company in Python 2.x, PyQT4, and MySQLdb and packaged with py2exe.
Recently, I made some updates to the application, Porting it to Python 3.4 and PySide. I also removed the MySQLdb dependencies and added Requests. I packaged this with the newly-minted py2exe for Python 3.
Suddenly I'm getting flagged by Windows defender that my executable is malware. Here's the log entry:
Windows Defender has detected spyware or other potentially unwanted software.
For more information please see the following:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=37020&name=BrowserModifier:Win32/Zwangi&threatid=144384
Name:BrowserModifier:Win32/Zwangi
ID:144384
Severity:High
Category:Browser Modifier
Path Found:file:C:\Users\alan.moore\Desktop\ticketuserclient3-beta1\ticketuserclient3\Contact tech support.exe
Detection Type:Concrete
Detection Source:Downloads and attachments
Status:Unknown
User:WILLIAMSON-TN\alan.moore
Process Name:C:\Windows\Explorer.EXE
So my questions are:
Thanks for any help.
UPDATE: Apparently anything I compile with py2exe under python3.4 gets identified like this.
I tried with this script:
import sys
import platform
print (sys.platform)
print ("".join(platform.uname))
And this setup.py
from distutils.core import setup
import os
import py2exe
setup(
windows=[{"script":"test.py", "dest_base":"Contact tech support"},],
options= {
"py2exe" : {
"compressed":1,
"optimize":2,
"bundle_files":3
}
},
zipfile = None
)
It's flagged as malware. (Win32/Zwangi).
I used Microsoft's "Submit a sample" page to report https://pypi.python.org/packages/3.4/p/py2exe/py2exe-0.9.2.0-py33.py34-none-any.whl as a false positive on June 20, 2014. As of June 23, 2014 it was no longer detected as BrowserModifier:Win32/Zwangi or anything else.