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Hi AutoIT masters, Good day! Sorry to have bothered this forum but we really need help. We are working on an automation project that is running on VDI server. The BOTS are in .exe are running fine until AV detected them and deleted the files. The files were re-compiled and AV kept on deleting them. The copy of the .exe BOT deleted were sent to Symantec for whitelisting. After whitelisting, it is no longer deleted but no longer working as designed (showing Line script error). We checked the scripts and there were no issues since we run it using SciTE editor and it performed the desired task. Good thing we found on this thread the solution using .a3x and the BOTS worked fine and no longer deleted. Now, the problem is they are asking why the BOTS won't run in .EXE and what is the reason behind Symantec AV deleting them. We raised a case with Symantec but they cannot provide further information as they are always seeing the file as "False Positive". We even tested with Symantec turned off and those .EXE files are working fine, however, after re-enabling, it got deleted. Just seeking help on how to better convince them that it is really Symantec causing the issue and the .a3x file.

Several questions around the forum get asked repeatedly: How to avoid false-positive Anti-Virus detection? Answered by AutoIt god himself How to make AutoIt software safe from hacking? How to prevent AutoIt software being de-compiled? How to prevent exposure of native AutoIt code? The general answers all go in the direction of (a) can't be done or (b) make it an .a3x script. The Wiki contains a single entry under "compiler directives" and the Help File contains mainly compiler info, with this note Also see this thread. So I thought I would make a little demo to actually show how it works. Here are the 2 scripts. The a3x_demo.zip file contains these 2, plus the compiled .a3x file and the .EXE The body #Region ;**** Directives created by AutoIt3Wrapper_GUI **** #AutoIt3Wrapper_Outfile_type=a3x #AutoIt3Wrapper_Outfile=a3x_demo.a3x #EndRegion ;**** Directives created by AutoIt3Wrapper_GUI **** #cs ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AutoIt Version: 3.3.14.2 Author: Skysnake Script Function: Demonstates working of a3x Instructions Code as normal Set Compiler option to .a3x as per Help File Compile Note output is (a) .a3x file, (b) now compile wrapper to make .exe file The compiled .a3x is included inside the .exe. To demonstrate, copy .exe to any new location and run. :) #ce ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ; Script Start #include <MsgBoxConstants.au3> MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "a3x demo", "This message box is called from an a3x pre-compiled script " & @CRLF & "will timeout after 10 seconds or select the OK button.", 10) ; code ends The wrapper #Region ;**** Directives created by AutoIt3Wrapper_GUI **** #AutoIt3Wrapper_Outfile=a3x_wrapper.exe #EndRegion ;**** Directives created by AutoIt3Wrapper_GUI **** #cs ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AutoIt Version: 3.3.14.2 Author: Skysnake Script Function: Wrapper for .a3x demo the INCLUDE line below forces the .a3x to be included in the new .EXE other option is to use FileIsntall and then run the a3x_demo.a3x as an external file NOTE: required in order are the following steps 1. body .au3 script 2. compile body .au3 as .a3x file, include in wrapper 3. wrapper .au3 script, to become the .exe -> compile as .EXE #ce ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ; Script Start - #include "a3x_demo.a3x" ; code ends DOWNLOAD: The ax3_demo.zip file EDIT: 2016.07.08 Fixed typos

Hi I need help. I have re-installed AutoIt, but the problem persists. My script uses an #include <tourney_mymain.a3x> which Scite fails to read. To be clear, as long as it is in .au3 format, it works. The moment I build it as .a3x, it fails. ;#include <tourney_mymain.a3x> #include <tourney_mymain.au3> _MyMainFunc() The file tourney_mymain.au3 exists in the same folder, and the header looks like this #Region ;**** Directives created by AutoIt3Wrapper_GUI **** #AutoIt3Wrapper_Outfile_type=a3x #AutoIt3Wrapper_Outfile=C:\AutoIt\tourney\tourney_mymain.a3x #AutoIt3Wrapper_Run_AU3Check=n #AutoIt3Wrapper_Run_Tidy=y #EndRegion ;**** Directives created by AutoIt3Wrapper_GUI **** The error looks like this: >"C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\SciTE\..\AutoIt3.exe" "C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\SciTE\AutoIt3Wrapper\AutoIt3Wrapper.au3" /run /prod /ErrorStdOut /in "C:\AutoIt\tourney\tourney.au3" /UserParams +>16:13:57 Starting AutoIt3Wrapper v.16.306.1237.0 SciTE v.3.6.2.0 Keyboard:00000409 OS:WIN_10/ CPU:X64 OS:X64 Environment(Language:0409) CodePage:0 utf8.auto.check:4 # detect ascii high characters and if none found set default encoding to UTF8 and do not add BOM +> SciTEDir => C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\SciTE UserDir => C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\AutoIt v3\SciTE\AutoIt3Wrapper SCITE_USERHOME => C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\AutoIt v3\SciTE >Running Tidy (16.306.1237.0) from:C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\SciTE\tidy +>16:13:57 Tidy ended.rc:0 >Running AU3Check (3.3.14.2) from:C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3 input:C:\AutoIt\tourney\tourney.au3 "C:\AutoIt\tourney\tourney.au3"(55,13) : error: _MyMainFunc(): undefined function. _MyMainFunc() ~~~~~~~~~~~~^ C:\AutoIt\tourney\tourney.au3 - 1 error(s), 0 warning(s) !>16:13:57 AU3Check ended. Press F4 to jump to next error.rc:2 +>16:13:57 AutoIt3Wrapper Finished. >Exit code: 2 Time: 1.028 When I toggle back to the .au3 file and compile/run, it works. >"C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\SciTE\..\AutoIt3.exe" "C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\SciTE\AutoIt3Wrapper\AutoIt3Wrapper.au3" /run /prod /ErrorStdOut /in "C:\AutoIt\tourney\tourney.au3" /UserParams +>16:28:05 Starting AutoIt3Wrapper v.16.306.1237.0 SciTE v.3.6.2.0 Keyboard:00000409 OS:WIN_10/ CPU:X64 OS:X64 Environment(Language:0409) CodePage:0 utf8.auto.check:4 # detect ascii high characters and if none found set default encoding to UTF8 and do not add BOM +> SciTEDir => C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\SciTE UserDir => C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\AutoIt v3\SciTE\AutoIt3Wrapper SCITE_USERHOME => C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\AutoIt v3\SciTE >Running Tidy (16.306.1237.0) from:C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\SciTE\tidy +>16:28:06 Tidy ended.rc:0 >Running AU3Check (3.3.14.2) from:C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3 input:C:\AutoIt\tourney\tourney.au3 +>16:28:06 AU3Check ended.rc:0 >Running:(3.3.14.2):C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\autoit3.exe "C:\AutoIt\tourney\tourney.au3" --> Press Ctrl+Alt+Break to Restart or Ctrl+Break to Stop I was here! +>16:28:06 AutoIt3.exe ended.rc:0 +>16:28:06 AutoIt3Wrapper Finished. >Exit code: 0 Time: 1.066 Building the .a3x file, returns this: >"C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\SciTE\..\AutoIt3.exe" "C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\SciTE\AutoIt3Wrapper\AutoIt3Wrapper.au3" /NoStatus /prod /in "C:\AutoIt\tourney\tourney_mymain.au3" +>16:29:01 Starting AutoIt3Wrapper v.16.306.1237.0 SciTE v.3.6.2.0 Keyboard:00000409 OS:WIN_10/ CPU:X64 OS:X64 Environment(Language:0409) CodePage:0 utf8.auto.check:4 # detect ascii high characters and if none found set default encoding to UTF8 and do not add BOM +> SciTEDir => C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\SciTE UserDir => C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\AutoIt v3\SciTE\AutoIt3Wrapper SCITE_USERHOME => C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\AutoIt v3\SciTE >Running Tidy (16.306.1237.0) from:C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\SciTE\tidy +>16:29:01 Tidy ended.rc:0 >Running:(3.3.14.2):C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\aut2exe\aut2exe.exe /in "C:\AutoIt\tourney\tourney_mymain.au3" /out "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\AutoIt v3\Aut2exe\~AUDA33.tmp.a3x" /nopack /comp 2 +>16:29:02 Aut2exe.exe ended.C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\AutoIt v3\Aut2exe\~AUDA33.tmp.a3x. rc:0 +>16:29:02 Created program:C:\AutoIt\tourney\tourney_mymain.a3x +>16:29:02 AutoIt3Wrapper Finished. >Exit code: 0 Time: 1.718 And the header of the contents of the .a3x file looks like this: £HK¾˜lJ©™LS †ÖH}AU3!EA06M¨ÿs$§<öz�ñg¬Á“çkCÊR¦­ á»:!¥)ãìç�˜.@½ášÞ€F±�k;!Ô±Öu:È=ÆÐ3÷�¯Ë�¢”���ˆþd•aç¶M�ø ,p~©=�ã™Õˆ ¬C�9˜�8öþ8_Yr©0h�d It looks like this in pure AutoIt: Func _MainFunc() ConsoleWrite("I was here!" & @CRLF) Local $sMainstatus = 'The database is empty' $Main = GUICreate("Roster", 640, 480) ; --- Top level menu Global $idHelpmenu = GUICtrlCreateMenu(" Help ") I have a similar AutoIT installation running on Windows 7, no problem. The machine giving problems is Win 10. Any ideas would be appreciated. This is a new pet project of mine and this is just the start, so I am willing to zip ALL of it and send it along if anyone wants to see inside. Thanks. Skysnake