lowbattery Posted December 17, 2022 Posted December 17, 2022 I was excited to finally finish my program, compiled it to exe, soft-launched it and... BOOM. Windows defender kept removing it from people's computers, along with malwarebytes, and some other virus scanners. This is a big pain in the butt because I'm having a big launch soon and can't have people (who struggle to do a lot of tech things) go through steps of un-quarantining the file. So I dug around on these forums and have a few questions that maybe some veterans could help me understand. Is compiling to an A3X (instead of an exe) the recommended approach for both stopping windows defender and virus scanners from being annoying? Also, is it just as secure from preventing a decompile as if I were to have compiled it to an exe? I also read that some people suggested running Au3Stripper first before compiling to A3X. Is this necessary? If so, I can't for the life of me find it in SciTE. Where is it? Finally, I also read a thread about a fellow who created an AU3toCMD script. So you'd create an all-in-1 CMD file in lieu of the A3X route above. Is this even better to avoid triggering virus scanners and windows defender?
Nine Posted December 17, 2022 Posted December 17, 2022 Can you compile in x64 ? Cause, they usually do not get targeted by AV... “They did not know it was impossible, so they did it” ― Mark Twain Spoiler Block all input without UAC Save/Retrieve Images to/from Text Monitor Management (VCP commands) Tool to search in text (au3) files Date Range Picker Virtual Desktop Manager Sudoku Game 2020 Overlapped Named Pipe IPC HotString 2.0 - Hot keys with string x64 Bitwise Operations Multi-keyboards HotKeySet Recursive Array Display Fast and simple WCD IPC Multiple Folders Selector Printer Manager GIF Animation (cached) Screen Scraping Multi-Threading Made Easy
Musashi Posted December 17, 2022 Posted December 17, 2022 1 hour ago, lowbattery said: Is compiling to an A3X (instead of an exe) the recommended approach for both stopping windows defender and virus scanners from being annoying? As far as I have observed, the .a3x approach is quite recommendable. 2 hours ago, lowbattery said: Also, is it just as secure from preventing a dec*mpile as if I were to have compiled it to an exe? An .exe , compiled with AutoIt, contains the script in .a3x format anyway. So it makes no difference. "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
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